Diversity & Inclusion group
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Who we are
The community behind LibreOffice and the Document Liberation project is growing fast, and we want to listen all the different voices that are making our projects a successful ones. Sometimes it's also hard to join for people who doesn't speak English or whose understanding depends on online translation services.
LibreLadies was the first subproject we started to connect and assist women who are interested in using and contributing to LibreOffice.
While working on this mission statement and in general to the Foundation and its projects, we started to discuss about the concepts of diversity and inclusion for fostering the contribution to LibreOffice and the Document Liberation project to a different level.
The first channels created for the LibreLadies group are still active and you are kindly invited to join us via the mailing list or the IRC channel that is bridged with a Telegram group.
- Mailing List
- IRC Channel: #libreladies IRC://
- Telegram group @libreladies
The diversity and inclusion group is our next step started to foster and improve what we've written in our "Next Decade manifesto" in 2010 and the values shared with the first group of founders and community members.
Goal and mission
Our community is based on mutual respect, tolerance, and encouragement, and we are working to help each other live up to these principles. We strongly believe that the cooperation between communities is a key way for growing a thriving community. For this reason we are proud to share our views also with members of different communities like Fedora (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Diversity).
Please, refer to our Code of Conduct (https://www.documentfoundation.org/foundation/code-of-conduct/) if you need more information.
Join us
LibreLadies Group
At the moment we are using the same channels created for the LibreLadies group.
No matter if you are a woman (cis and trans), a man or genderqueer person, we want to make your first contact with us as simple as possible.
A great way to get started is to join our mailing list and send off a post introducing yourself and your interests (What kind of contributions would you like to make?).
You can also join us in our IRC channel, #libreladies, on Libera Chat that is bridged with the Telegram group @libreladies
Liaison Group
You can join the group on: https://community.documentfoundation.org/c/liaisons/21
Don't hesitate to introduce yourself here and let us know what you'd like to do.
Current subprojects
LibreLadies
It is hard enough to become a member of a new community and learn its culture and processes. Women (a minority in open-source communities) face a unique set of challenges and go through a different set of experiences than men when trying to become contributors. Because women are a minority it is harder for us to find others who've been through the same things, or with whom we can share experiences and advice.
LibreLadies's goal is to address this need.
LibreLadies is planning to have some activities (online and offline), where the main goal is to share experience in order to motivate other women to be part of open source communities and contribute. Providing role models by increasing the visibility of active women in LibreOffice will encourage other contributors. Another way is giving talks at Open Source conferences and actively encouraging and educating the LibreOffice community to increase understanding of the issues facing women who wish to contribute to our community. Each event will be well documented in order to be used for other communities too.
Liaisons
Proposal is to empower some local contributors to be the representative of their community. This will be worked out together with the MC and the local community.
The preferred name for this role will be Liaison but it could be also ambassador (liaison is preferred as it's really about connecting people :)
This role will have some "obligations" but will also get incentives (goodies, travels to the conferences/Fosdem, open badges for each progress) with an emphasis on official recognition.
The role includes:
- develop a local team if no exist, that should be one of the first main objective
- report on their activities, few lines each quarter that could be turned into a blog
- translate/inform on the international activities:
- for that they should read ESC/MC/UX/Board minutes and newsletter
- regularly read TDF blog
- organize online sessions with local communities
- communicate about those sessions largely, locally and globally
- organize local events with the help of TDF budget
- event could also be a workshop on QA or development or localization
TDF will organize online sessions with all liaisons regularly, could be individually or by groups, but regularity is encouraging and supportive:
- to be able to help them in their mission
- to be able to be aware of the difficulties as early as possible
- to understand the differences between different local communities and what should be put in place to remove barriers
- to be able to communicate on their work
TDF will create a dedicated category on Community where they can exchange, ask for feedback, information, etc.
Their will be on-boarding sessions where TDF, the projects and tools (refund, events, weblate, community, etc) are presented together with the objectives of the role.
On-boarding session will:
- give examples of areas of contributions
- give a clear explanation of what is TDF (manifesto, statutes)
- describe Board, MC, Certification activities and where to find information/news/meetings
- describe who is doing what in the staff for direct points of contact
Workshops or online sessions like the ones done by Ilmari will be organized, where the different projects are presented in a first time and then to create links between local communities and projects (when there is enough of interest :)
See also:
Events (list of events organized or attended by the group)
- OSCAL 2018 (talk and workshop)
- LibreOffice Conference 2017 (workshop)
- OSCAL 2017 (talk)
Resources
- Help to write gender neutral mails
- Other FLOSS project resources
- Readings