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| title: The Apache Community Development Team Prepares to Send Out its First Diversity Survey |
| date: 2016-11-23 |
| blog_post: true |
| published_by: sharan |
| tags: ["blog","survey"] |
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| Over the next few weeks the Apache Community Development team will be sending out and running its first ever Apache |
| Software Foundation Committer Diversity Survey. The committer group was selected because they are a significant number |
| of people that are linked to every Apache project. (**NOTE**: The ASF currently has 5861 committers across 295 |
| projects.) |
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| Although there are many aspects to diversity including socio-economic, disability and education etc which may be |
| addressed in future surveys, this initial survey will focus on the three broad areas of age, gender and ethnicity. It |
| will also try to capture information about why people contribute to Apache projects. To ensure the confidentiality and |
| privacy of the respondents, the survey will be anonymous and completely voluntary. |
| |
| **Why capture this information?** |
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| Many organisations are wanting to find out how effective they are at attracting a diverse range of people. The Apache |
| Software Foundation promotes open, community focussed projects that are welcoming to all, yet have not collected any |
| information to support this. This survey will be an opportunity to capture this information. |
| |
| The survey results will be used to generate consolidated and aggregated statistics for the Apache Community Development |
| team and the Apache Software Foundation. These details may be published and made publicly available. |
| |
| **When will the survey results be published?** |
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| The survey will be run over a two week period and once complete an additional week will be required to consolidate the |
| responses into statistics. Survey results will be announced on the committers and community development mailing lists. |
