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Diversity and Inclusion at CNCF

Rael Garcia, CNCF Barcelona Meetup Organizer and Kubernetes contributor

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About me

Organizer at Cloud Native Barcelona meetup

meetup.com/Barcelona-Cloud-Meetup

Contributor at Kubernetes

K ubernetes.io

Site Reliability Engineer at CAPSiDE

capside.com

Cloud Native & OSS Advocate

rael.io

Rael Garcia Arnes

You can find me at @raelga

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What is CNCF?

Nonprofit foundation, part of the Linux Foundation.
Founded Dec 2015

Incubating

Service Mesh

Storage

Service Discovery

Distributed Tracing

Software Update

Spec

Security

Graduated

Package Management

Networking API

Distributed Tracing

API

Container Runtime

Messaging

Orchestration

Service Proxy

Monitoring

Registry

Storage

Key/Value Store

Policy

Container Runtime

Logging

Remote Procedure Call

Key/Value

Store

SANDBOX

Identity Spec

Identity

Tooling

Metrics

Spec

Monitoring

Serverless

Packaging Spec

Container Security

Image Distribution

Nodeless

Edge

Scripting

Networking

Storage

Telemetry

Spec

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Code of Conduct

github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md

As contributors and maintainers of this project, and in the interest of fostering an open and welcoming community, we pledge to respect all people who contribute through reporting issues, posting feature requests, updating documentation, submitting pull requests or patches, and other activities.

We are committed to making participation in this project a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of level of experience, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, or nationality.

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The Chasing Grace Project

CNCF has partnered with The Chasing Grace Project, a documentary series about women in tech, to help highlight the lack of diversity within open source. “It’s important to show how men’s and women’s day-to-day experiences are quite different,”

www.chasinggracefilm.com

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Diversity scholarships

Since 2016, CNCF has offered more than 485 diversity scholarships to traditionally underrepresented and/or marginalized groups in the technology and/or open source communities—including, but not limited to persons identifying as LGBTQ, women, persons of color, and/or persons with disabilities—to attend KubeCon + CloudNativeCon events.

cncf.io/blog/2019/02/07/diversity-scholarship-series-why-not

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Attendee Diversity

Keynote Speaker Breakdown

Male 60% Female 40%

Attendee Breakdown

Speakers only Breakdown

events.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/KCCNC-NA-18-Report.pdf

Male 74%

Female 11%

Prefer not to answer 14%

Non-binary 1%

Male 81%

Prefer not to answer 4%

Female 15%

Non-binary 1%

Numbers from KCCNC-NA-18

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EmpowerUs Reception

A networking event opportunity for our attendees who identify as women or non-binary individuals over the past few years at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon.

Place for conversations about all things cloud native, including your favorite projects and the evolving diversity, inclusivity and civility in our fast-growing ecosystem.

sched.co/ObIg

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Diversity Lunch + Hack

The luncheon will feature round table discussions, opportunities to get hands on with Kubernetes or pair programming on your problem of choice in a safe space.

There’s something for everyone – newcomers, experts, women, non-binary, female-identifying individuals, and male allies welcomed.

kubernetes.io/blog/2019/05/02/kubecon-diversity-lunch-and-hack/

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Inclusive Speaker Orientation (LFC101)

Created in collaboration with the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), this orientation course is designed to provide you with essential background knowledge and practical skills to promote inclusivity in presentations, messaging and other communications.

training.linuxfoundation.org/training/inclusive-speaker-orientation/

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Stickers

Communication stickers to support social interaction for people with a variety of disabilities and communication needs.

Pronouns stickers to share with others which you prefer.

events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2019

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Onsite Resources

Nursing Room

A private nursing room will be available at the event to aid in the comfort and accessibility for our nursing attendees.

Child Care

Complimentary child care available onsite during event days.

Venue Accessibility

Wheelchair + Medical Equipment Rental

events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2018

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Onsite Resources

Quiet Room

A physical space where conversation and interaction are not allowed, where attendees can go if for any reason they can’t interact with other attendees at that time.

All-Gender Restrooms

We will designate specific restrooms as all-gender restrooms for attendees who feel more comfortable using those facilities.

lfasiallc.com/events/kubecon-cloudnativecon-china-2019

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See you at the Cloud Native Barcelona meetup

meetup.com/Cloud-Native-Barcelona

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Thank you!

This presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ for more details.

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