Redefining Inclusion: Building Truly Global Cloud N...
summary
Project audit finds 80 community meetings with 80 meetings, 75 favor NA/EU, 0 Oceania and only two matching South Asia timezones, so contributors outside those zones miss continuity and promotion. Remedy experiments include APAC weekly release meetings and SIG ContribX APAC calls that run 21 sessions averaging 4–5 attendees and 21 APAC SIG ContribX sessions → 1 new contributor/session, plus mentorship cohorts and LFX internships that yield LFX internships produced 11–12 new maintainers, showing measurable gains when meeting times, decision-making and ladders shift.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:05Inclusiveness in open source
- 2:50Geographic inclusiveness
- 4:15Inclusion dimensions
- 6:04Time zone struggles
- 8:30Barriers to recognition
- 11:20Inclusive meeting scheduling
- 13:09Personal time zone struggle
- 15:18Asynchronous collaboration
- 16:41Speaking up in global teams
- 18:47Encouraging new contributors
- 19:47Small acts of inclusion
- 21:11Project leadership globally
- 22:56Mentorship programs
- 24:21Paid internships pipelines
- 25:47CNCF diversity groups
- 26:30Equity versus equality
- 26:51Resources and closing
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