First Steps: Running Your First Ever Diversity Survey

If we want to find out how diverse our open source communities are, where is the best place to start? Running a survey always sounds like a pretty straightforward task to accomplish this, and at the t …

If we want to find out how diverse our open source communities are, where is the best place to start? Running a survey always sounds like a pretty straightforward task to accomplish this, and at the time it always does. During November/December last year, Sharan organised and ran the first ever diversity survey for Committers on Apache Software Foundation projects. In this presentation, Sharan shares her experience of running the survey, the results and some of the unexpected challenges involved along the way.