Making Inclusive Practices the Norm in Open Source

Despite slogans like “inclusion is everyone’s job”, the majority of people working to improve inclusion are those who are most impacted when it fails. They are the most likely to take on emotional labour, the most likely to burn out, and sadly, most likely to face backlash and trolling. The very people we seek to include are fed up and exhausted. Who can blame them?

The good news is, that for the first time ever, there is an opportunity to move from sporadic understanding and implementation of inclusive practices to consistent evaluation and application - by anyone.

Under the banner of the Linux Foundation’s CHAOSS project, and building from Mozilla’s 2018 research recommendations, there is now a first set of peer-validated metrics intended to help project owners and contributors alike understand, evaluate and improve how their projects can best include and empower everyone.  To truly make inclusion something everyone does.

This talk will describe an initial set of goal-metrics, and tools and call to action to those  to open and squash 'inclusion bugs' in their area of Drupal.

Emma will also touch on ethical challenge, and new work to establish best practices that both protect and serve people.