Governance Taskforce Recommendation "Create a Drupal Community Diversity Statement"

Created on 8 November 2018, about 6 years ago
Updated 1 December 2023, about 1 year ago

Diversity and inclusion needs to be a core Drupal value and priority. Not prioritizing diversity does a disservice to the individuals who could benefit directly; and diverse contribution benefits the growth and potential of Drupal and the community.

What we heard:

The Drupal community cannot achieve its full potential without making a commitment to diversity and inclusion and honouring it. The Drupal community flourishes when we ensure that talented people are not inherently excluded, and that all are afforded opportunities for engagement and development.

Much like the Values and Principles, our community needs definition around diversity and inclusion to help guide us, and it is important for our community identity that we have clarity β€” although we recognize this is no easy task.

What we recommend:

We recommend the creation of a diversity statement. As with other official Drupal community guideposts, like the Values and Principles, this would be a living document with ongoing improvements based on open feedback from the community.

The diversity statement would be a first-order policy along with the mission, vision, and values and principles documents. We further recommend a process be defined for reviewing ongoing commentary and/or proposed changes.

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πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§United Kingdom rachel_norfolk UK

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  • I think diversity of thought is important to acknowledge as well. You can have a community built from people of diverse backgrounds and be inclusive and welcoming to those people without accepting that different worldviews and viewpoints are welcome.

    To quote from the example document that @rachel_norfolk linked:

    Conservative or liberal, libertarian or socialist β€” we believe it’s possible for people of all viewpoints and persuasions to come together and learn from each other. We believe in the broad spectrum of individual and collective experience and in the inherent dignity of all people. We believe that amazing things come when people from different worlds and world-views approach each other to create a conversation.

    The community needs to be a place where we value the "inherent dignity of all people", inherent meaning that you deserve dignity and respect, not because of some characteristic of yourself or something you believe, but simply because you are human.

  • πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈUnited States DamienMcKenna NH, USA

    I think diversity of thought is important to acknowledge as well.

    I used to think this was bupkis, but then Covid happened and the world disappeared down a groupthink blackhole that it hasn't fully recovered from. So now I strongly believe a range of opinions is essential to avoid the community groupthinking itself into obsolescence.

    The community needs to be a place where we value the "inherent dignity of all people"

    Amen.

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