Goal: Identify the diversity and inclusion within a project.
Some of the language we use, and what we mean.
- Diversity: How different are the people present?
- Inclusion: How well do we enable these different people to work together?
- Retention: How long do different people stay engaged?
- Attraction: How well do we extend a hand to different newcomers?
Example 1: Two people in a room. They can be diverse, but they don’t have to work together or stay there until tomorrow. AND just because someone is there, doesn’t mean their experience is great.
Example 2: Some minorities are not necessarily visible, do we want to measure their degree of visibility/outness? (e.g., disability, socio-economic, LGBTIQ, religion)
Example 3: There may be women within a community that is less inclusive, but the women are determined to “see it through” and participate. In this case, retention does not necessarily reflect the level of inclusion within a community.
NOTE: that how we might ask these questions, and what potential answers might be are currently out of scope.
NOTE: that regional appropriateness of demographics is also currently out of scope, and will be its own task.
NOTE: that the legal, privacy and ethical issues related to asking for, storing and visualizing data is currently out of scope, and will be its own task.
- Gender Identity
- Sexual orientation
- Age
- Location/Region/Country
- Socioeconomic status
- Tenure (time with project) / Tenure with the ecosystem
- Race/Ethnicity
- First Language
- Confidence with English
- Dis/Ability
- Neurodiversity
- Caregiver (child or eldercare)
- Identifies as underepresented (which can include components of above, or be separate)
The following are the areas of analysis: