Re: Q to both: "Debian outreachy"
Hi Chris
El 26/03/17 a las 17:48, Chris Lamb escribió:
> martin f krafft wrote:
>
>> What does "outreach" mean to you?
>
> I fear I have a pretty mainstream interpretation of outreach; ie.
> specifically "targeting" (or at least calling the attention of) groups
> we perceive to be under-represented in our community and streamlining
> their initial involvement in our project.
>
> However, in Debian I believe this extends beyond gender etc. but also
> with respect to geographic location, race, socio-economic background
> and political outlook. It might be fair to say we remain somewhat of
> a European project in both senses of that word.
Sorry I didn't understand the "both senses" of European. I can imagine
geographically and... culturally? Could you clarify?
Thanks
>
> Including folks that our outside of our norms are a huge potential for
> Debian, not only in crude terms such as the untapped humanpower and the
> technical ideas that were potentially outside of our point of view, it
> simply makes the project more social, fun and enjoyable. Not only that,
> how many times have you heard of Debian being (ab?)used in a some
> unexpected context and thought "Huh, I feel pretty proud to have had a
> small hand in that…".
>
> I think we're doing a pretty good job already and this is helped by
> being a rather anarchistic project to begin with — we appear to attract
> a wider mix of people who like our approach to building things versus the
> more "top-down" distributions.
>
> We do, however, lack clear "next steps" in this area which cause me some
> concern. As an illustration of this, I remember attending a Debian BoF
> where there was universal agreement that diversity was a good thing but
> when prompted with a question of "OK, so what shall we do?" there was
> little advice beyond being welcoming, etc. being exchanged.
>
> Without addressing this, we could end up simply paying lip service to the
> concept to the detriment of all.
>
>
> Regards,
>
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Laura Arjona Reina
https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona
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