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title: Fedora Week of Diversity Scratchpad
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# Fedora Week of Diversity Scratchpad

## Community Blog Post & Discussion

### When should this post?
Sunday the 3rd at 8:00 AM UTC

### Fedora Stories: Fedora Week of Diversity is here! 
Fedora's Diversity & Inclusion Team decided in the spring of 2021 at a virtual meetup to transition our yearly "Fedora Women's Day" to "Fedora Week of Diversity". Fedora Week of Diversity runs October 3-9th and features a series of interviews with community members telling their Fedora stories. We also initialized a Recommended Resources page in the D&I Team Docs that we will continue to improve upon. Last, but not least, we (finally) published the videos from Fedora Women's Day 2020 to the Fedora YouTube channel. This week will be full of highlights from this content to showcase Fedora's diversity!

Our Process
The FWD Working Group consisted mainly of Jona Azizaj, Marie Nordin, Onuralp Sezer, and Vipul Siddharth. We had support from Grayson Penland and Ashlyn Knox as well. The team got to work and brainstormed what it would look like this year. There were some important variables to consider. The event would need to be virtual, and yet we are all experiencing virtual fatigue. Even though we had a handful of folks interested, most of us were already close to capacity with our work/volunteer-loads. That is when we determined that our approach would be to create a series of content that could be enjoyed by folks asynchronously and that we would use our existing frameworks as best as we could. 

Video Series
We discussed a variety of ideas for the event including: live informational events, social hours, resources, training, Happiness Packets, and Contributor Stories. From those ideas we focused in on as "Contributor Stories" as the concept for FWD. We wanted to evolve the historical blog post format to something a bit more engaging, which is how we settled on the idea of creating a video series of stories from our community. We coordinated a session at Nest with Fedora to gather stories, and we also conducted interviews with volunteers. From there we have been coordinating the promotion, branding, video editing, etc. 

DEI: Recommended Resources
The Recommended Resources page is something we initialized to celebrate Fedora Week of Diversity, but it something the D&I team has wanted to do for the community for some time. We would like to improve this page over time as we feel education and awareness are important factors to help increase Fedora's diversity. This page is not meant to be an ultimate source of truth, or inclusive of every single DEI topic(yet). It would be great it we could build it to be that someday. For now, it is something we would like to add to in a genuine way as we as a D&I Team and as a community review resources and find them to be useful. Please feel free to contribute ideas for additions via a ticket on the D&I Team repo, or go ahead and pull request your contribution if you are comfortable!

Fedora Women's Day 
In October of 2020 we held a virtual Fedora Women's Day event. It had a great turn out, amazing speakers, and a positive feedback from attendees. Unfortunately we have limited video editing resources, so getting videos up on Youtubefrom FWD 2020 has taken some time. We are thrilled we were able to get them up for Fedora Week of Diversity this year! You may be wondering what does this mean for Fedora Women's Day? Organizing Fedora Week of Diversity doesn't mean our community can't hold Fedora Women's Days in the future, this is just where the active team members would like to focus their efforts currently. The D&I Team and the Mindshare Committee are happy to continue to support local Fedora Women's Day events when it is safe to organize in person events again. 

Join us at this weeks Fedora Social Hour
We are taking over the Fedora Social Hour this week for Fedora Week of Diversity. Come hang out with a crew of Fedorans and chat about life, hobbies, and Fedora stories! The Social Hour is Thursday October 7th at 14:00 UTC. Join via the Fedora Social Element Room and jump into the Jitsi conference if you're up to it. We can't wait to see you there!

Looking forward to next year...
The Fedora D&I Team always welcomes new folks to join in the discussion. We would love to have a larger group of volunteers to make Fedora Week of Diversity bigger and better next year. If you want to get involved, join our bi-weekly call to chat and get to know folks around Fedora's D&I Team. 



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Fedora's Diversity & Inclusion Team decided in the spring of 2021 at a virtual meetup to transition our yearly "Fedora Women's Day" to "Fedora Week of Diversity". Fedora Week of Diversity runs October 3-9th and features a series of interviews with community members telling their Fedora stories. We also initialized a Recommended Resources page in the D&I Team Docs that we will continue to improve upon. Last, but not least, we (finally) published the videos from Fedora Women's Day 2020 to the Fedora YouTube channel. This week will be full of highlights from this content to showcase Fedora's diversity!

Join us at this weeks Fedora Social Hour
We are taking over the Fedora Social Hour this week for Fedora Week of Diversity. Come hang out with a crew of Fedorans and chat about life, hobbies, and Fedora stories! The Social Hour is Thursday October 7th at 14:00 UTC. Join via the Fedora Social Element Room and jump into the Jitsi conference if you're up to it. We can't wait to see you there!

Looking forward to next year...
The Fedora D&I Team always welcomes new folks to join in the discussion. We would love to have a larger group of volunteers to make Fedora Week of Diversity bigger and better next year. If you want to get involved, join our bi-weekly call to chat and get to know folks around Fedora's D&I Team. 


## **Tweets**

### Storyteller Tweets

Longer Interviews
* Watch @fedoracommunity member @thunderbirdtr share his @fedora story as part of #fwd2021 #wearefedora 
* Check out @Det_Conan_Kudo @fedora story as part of #fwd2021 #wearefedora @fedoracommunity
* As part of #fwd2021 the Fedora Project Leader @mattdm, has shared his @fedora story #wearefedora @fedoracommunity
* Watch @fedoracommunity member Maria Leonova share her @fedora story as part of #fwd2021 #wearefedora
* As part of #fwd2021 the Fedora Program Manager @funnelfiasco, has shared his @fedora story #wearefedora @fedoracommunity
* Check out @ace1999dhar share his @fedora story as part of #fwd2021 #wearefedora @fedoracommunity 
* Watch @fedoracommunity member @jwf_foss share his @fedora story as part of #fwd2021 #wearefedora 

Shorter Interviews
* Check out @jonatoni @fedora story as part of #fwd2021 #wearefedora 
* As part of #fwd2021, @SiddharthVipul has shared his @fedora story #wearefedora @fedoracommunity 
* Hear @fedoracommunity member @marinaz share a @fedora story as part of #fwd2021 #wearefedora 
* Watch @fedoracommunity member Paul Flaherty share his @fedora story as part of #fwd2021 #wearefedora 
* Check out Bradley Davis' @fedora story as part of #fwd2021 #wearefedora @fedoracommunity
* Hear @fedoracommunity member @jossperdomo_ share her @fedora story as part of #fwd2021 #wearefedora
* As part of #fwd2021, Rikard Grossman-Nielsen has shared his @fedora story #wearefedora @fedoracommunity
* Hear the @fedoracommunity Action and Impact Coordinator, @rie_cat, share a @fedora story as part of #fwd2021 #wearefedora 
* As part of #fwd2021, @juhp has shared his @fedora story #wearefedora @fedoracommunity
* As part of #fwd2021, @dhairuwu has shared her @fedora story #wearefedora @fedoracommunity* 
* Check out Luna Jernberg's @fedora story as part of #fwd2021 #wearefedora @fedoracommunity
* Watch @fedoracommunity member @NilsPhilippsen share a @fedora story as #fwd2021 #wearefedora
* Check out @copperi @fedora story as part of #fwd2021 #wearefedora @fedoracommunity

### General tweet
**1: Sunday**
.@fedora Week of Diversity is here! 👏 We will share different stories from the @fedoracommunity through the upcoming week. Some folks talk about how they started with open source. What's your open source story? #wearefedora #fwd2021

**2: Monday**
Have a lovely week, wonderful humans! As part of #fwd2021, we continue sharing community stories and telling more about our favorite events. What is your favorite Fedora event? What was your favorite Flock/Nest? #wearefedora @fedora @fedoracommunity

**3: Tuesday**
Check out th Youtube Playlist to hear stories from the @fedoracommunity to celebrate Fedora Week of Diversity #fwd2021 #wearefedora @fedora

**4: Wednesday**
As part of Fedora Week of Diversity, @fedoracommunity members have shared stories about their mentor(s) who guided them to contribute to Fedora. Who was your @fedora mentor? #fwd2021 #wearefedora

**5: Thursday**
What's next for #fwd2021? Hang with us today at Social Hour at 16:00 CEST and share your favorite Fedora memory! https://matrix.to/#/#social:fedoraproject.org #wearefedora @fedora @fedoracommunity 

**6: Saturday**
Do you have a favorite piece of @fedora technology or development? The @fedoracommunity shared some of their favorites in the Fedora Week of Diversity Stories series, check them out! #fwd2021 #wearefedora 

**7: Sunday**
Today is the last day of #fwd2021! We hope you enjoy the remaining stories we have prepared to share with you all. Get involved with the @fedora D&I team to help us for the 2022 edition https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/diversity-inclusion/) #wearefedora 


### Resource Library tweets
Check out our new DEI Resource page started by the Fedora Week of Diversity Working Group! We are looking for additions and contributors to help improve the page. Find it out here: @fedora @fedoracommunity #wearefedora #fwd2021

The Fedora Week of Diversity Working Group initiated a DEI Resource page in our D&I Team docs! This is a work in progress, and we are looking for help on improvements and additions. Check it out today: @fedora @fedoracommunity #wearefedora #fwd2021

### Fedora Women's Day Tweets


- The @fedora D&I Team held a virtual Fedora Women's Day in October of 2020. We are happy to announce the recordings are now (finally) up on for viewing! Check out the playlist here: @fedoracommunity #wearefedora #fwd2020 #fwd2021
- Fedora Women's Day in October 2020 had 14 presenters telling their unique stories- learn about how they got involved in tech and found the @fedoracommunity here: @fedora @fedoracommunity #wearefedora #fwd2020 #fwd2021
- We said it then, but we need to say it again: a huge thanks to the presenters from Fedora Women's Day 2020! @fedora is lucky to have you! Check out their stories:  @fedoracommunity #wearefedora #fwd2020 #fwd2021
- The recordings for Fedora Women's Day from October 2020 are now up for viewing, check them out here: @fedora @fedoracommunity #fwd2020 #fwd2021
- Each person's experience getting into tech can be a little or a LOT different! Hear speakers at Fedora Women's Day 2020 on how they got involved in @fedora and open source. @fedoracommunity #fwd2020 #fwd2021 #wearefedora
- .@fedora wouldn't be the same without the wonderful community members who presented at Fedora Women's Day 2020- check out their stories! #fwd2020 #fwd2021 #wearefedora
- To celebrate #fwd2021, we invite you to check out videos from Fedora Women's Day 2020- 14 speakers present on their experiences with @fedora and tech! @fedoracommunity #fwd2020 
