Session: Maintainers Listening Tour: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
We are working together to create an open source project, All In for Maintainers, which will seek to highlight and develop maintainers who are committed to advancing diversity, inclusion, and belonging within their own communities. We want to create the program with maintainers for maintainers. As part of this process we are on a Maintainers Listening Tour where we are hosting a series of focus groups and individual interviews with maintainers who are interested in attracting and retaining new contributors with diverse backgrounds in an inclusive way. We also want to hear best practices, lessons learned and stories along the way.
During this focus group, we want to learn:
- What maintainers are doing to advance diversity, inclusion and belonging within their communities;
- What is working well;
- What is not working well;
- What challenges they are facing that may be prohibiting them from advancing diversity, equity and inclusion within their communities; and
- What they would like to see in a program such as All In for Maintainers.
Please join us for an open and informal discussion on your experience with DEI in the open source communities you are leading and your aspirations for where you want to see it in the future. Let’s open source diversity, equity and inclusion!
