/diversity-and-inclusion

Diversity and Inclusion Badging Home

MIT LicenseMIT

Diversity and Inclusion Badging

This is the repository that houses documentation related to the Diversity & Inclusion Badging Project

The purpose of this repository is to serve as a "starting point" for the Diversity and Inclusion Badging Program

Table of contents

Problem Statement

Diversity in open source is opaque to participants, newcomers, and stakeholders because contributors are distributed, and in many cases are an agglomeration of individuals in different locations. Inclusivity for open source projects is impeded by long standing practices that have side effects that act to reproduce the current state of limited diversity.

Opportunity

The project aims to increase understanding of the open source project and event practices that encourage greater diversity and wider inclusion of people from different backgrounds.

Goal

The goal of the Diversity & Inclusion Badging Program is to encourage projects and events to obtain D&I badges for reasons of pride, leadership, self-reflection, and self-improvement on issues critical to building the Internet as a social good.

Here are the primary deliverables of the Diversity & Inclusion Badging Program:

  • Establish an environment where projects and events can engage in the badging program
  • Aligning the badging program with best practices, guidelines and recommendations from Diversity & Inclusion efforts on the CHAOSS project
  • Connecting with existing badging standards of IMS Global including
  • Building an open, peer-review system for the D&I Badging Program

Applying for Badges

Project Badging

The Project Badging section of CHAOSS Badging is about measuring inclusivity of different OSS projects through human reviews.

In order to submit an application for a project, go through the following documents:

  • Applicant role - This document describes the GitHub permissions and the responsibilities of a CHAOSS Badging Applicant.
  • Project submission requirements - Minimum requirements for a project to be eligible for participation in CHAOSS Badging process.

In order to apply for Project Badging, go to project-diversity-and-inclusion.

Event Badging

The Event Badging section of CHAOSS Badging is about measuring inclusivity of different technical events through human reviews.

In order to submit an application for a project, go through the following documents:

  • Applicant role - This document describes the GitHub permissions and the responsibilities of a CHAOSS Badging Applicant.
  • Event submission requirements - Minimum requirements for a Event to be eligible for participation in CHAOSS Badging process.

In order to apply for Project Badging, go to event-diversity-and-inclusion.

Reviewing Badging submissions

Reviewers are an essential part of CHAOSS Badging since their feedback and interaction with an applicant would determine the direction an application takes.

In order to get familiar with what is expected of reviewers, go through the following documents:

  • Reviewer role - This document describes the GitHub permmissions and the responsibilities of a CHAOSS Badging Reviewer.
  • Reviewer guide

To become a part of the process, open an issue on this repository with the title Reviewer application and introduce yourself.

Work to Date

The project is in its beginning stages. See the issue templates for the most up-to-date work.

Contributors

Maintainers