Improving diversity in this community

[bmillwood]

I’m going to gather together the comments on outreachy from the other thread, because they’re a little too thinly spread for my liking, and it feels like a relatively concrete thing to think about:

@cafkafk suggests https://www.outreachy.org/ (in this comment), which “[…] provides internships to people subject to systemic bias and impacted by underrepresentation in the technical industry where they are living”

@paperdigits replies:

@@paperdigits

So it seems like to get into Outreachy, we need to apply to be in it when they open their applications again, have mentors available to help students thru the time, and define some projects we want people to work on. It nominally seems like the same things as GSoC, which is very doable. Am I missing something?"

@arianvp agrees:

It can also be something like Outreachy. Most important part is finding mentors who are willing to do this kind of stuff. And I think the summer of nix project already had quite a list of mentors. I’m sure most of them would be interested in something like this.

(I think that community hostility and lack of moderation seems like a bigger / more urgent issue, though I haven’t been in this community long; this outreachy stuff doesn’t directly address that, but I thought it’d be useful to gather here anyway.)