Jenkins June 2021 Contributor Summit, 29 Jun 2021

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From YouTube: Ignite talks - Inclusive Naming

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Jenkins Ignite talk focused on the inclusive naming initiative and the participation of the Jenkins project in the initiative. The initiative is working to make technology more inclusive by removing offensive terminology from common technology use.

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uh Demos all the time, uh so if anyone want else once uh just go ahead so yeah, the next topic is about inclusive naming initiatives. So it's not memphians, it's serious. uh So you know in jenkins. You invested a lot of time uh in uh cleaning up technology and thanks a lot john for doing the presentation today for these details.

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We also have this community checking style for discussion. uh It's new landing page where we integrate all the inclusive uh naming cleanup, so it replaced our jira issues and epics. We aggregated everything here on. Basically this course because it's easy to edit it's easy to collaborate and discuss and we will be putting all the links here and currently it's an official project in advocacy and notwith. So I made a patch which basically made it explicit.

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So we we agreed on that more than one year ago, but uh yeah just edited and here are some links and you can see that there is a link uh uh referring to inclusive initiative. So this is what I was about talking about. um Several our contributors, including me, angelic, tierra vasilenko, current target uh and cara de la marc. We joined uh this inclusive naming initiative channels. We contributed to some meetings, so what is it?

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This global initiative, which is focused on helping organizations not only open source but also private source, to adopt inclusion of technology? And you can see that there are actually multiple organizations participating, including the linux foundation, cloud native computing foundation. That is our founding members so and steven augustus are one of the founders of these initiatives they're from cncf.

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Also, there are quite big companies and they're also related projects, including, for example, micro bernat is by linux foundation, networking and what I propose to either me as jenkins, and maybe as the continuous liberty foundation, also joined this initiative. So we join as a related project. So basically our name here prefer maybe this advocacy and outreach link so that we highlight that psja project that we are committed to cleaning up terminology, because this is what we announced and for us there is no reason to not participate so yeah. It would be great to participate here.

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Also, we agreed that we would be helping uh inclusiveness marketing so alex earl, who posted on terminology updates on sdf recently. He would be also interviewing with saying into the framing initiative and we are helping by sharing our expertise. uh So, for example, here they shared a tool for discovering uh misusages on screenshots embedded in the documentation, so he created the tool for that fully degreased and some somewhere open source.

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So we can already- and I think that for us it would be reasonable to not on the journey related project, but uh actually right here uh participating organizations, so it could be jenkins or it could be the continuous delivery foundation or boss and yeah. For us, it would be free because we are non-profits open source and we can join for free for a companies uh they're currently discussing what would be the cost uh for participating.

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So, for example, I also brought it up in my company that hey since we contribute a lot uh to terminology cleanup in jenkins. uh Why don't we also join as a company, and you can also offer it in your companies if you contribute, uh but uh yeah for open source projects is free, and this is basically my proposal. Let's join, um I still uh want to put it on the developer.

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My name is the official voting at one of the governance meetings, but I think uh it's quite straightforward for us uh and it's definitely a win-win situation for all participants. So well, why not.

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And yeah they have uh slack channel uh so yeah. There is inclusive naming somewhere just a second it's here and on this channel you can see that actually, there are multiple uh work streams, including community, including marketing language setting standards, company outreach, which is rather most communicating with osprey et cetera, but yeah we participated there already. There are regular meetings where we participated and we could again participate more highlighted the jenkins project and basically uh work together on uh setting, for example, standards, marketing and aligning with other organizations.

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Comments, I think it looks very promising- that's great, so so the the kinds of initiatives that are happening here they would they assist us with phrasing things. What sorts of things do you see us involved with.

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Obviously, they're organizing quite big initiative in terms of cash, so there is an ongoing proposal to ask premium members, for example, for fifteen thousand dollars per year for membership etc, and they plan to funnel the most of this money to marketing they are non-profit and what it means that they will be facilitating. For example, they plan a series of blogs about how open source projects and organizations create basically input environment and how they contribute to naming clicking up.

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So it's definitely something where we could contribute and since they have their marketing team, uh they need content. We can provide content and they can provide marketing for us uh by using our content and vice versa. They could create the generic guidelines etc, using their resources, they outswitch programs, and we could consume these guidelines. We could implement standards or we could just, for example, adopt some guidelines as jeps. Currently, angelic is working on a job for localizations and for engineers updates, but in the future we could get the standards out of this working groups.

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So, for me, it's clear win-win and it's totally non-commitment.

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Maybe just by saying that we joined this initiative, it will be also quite a marketing splash. So right, why not.

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Yeah, I think so we're going to do the work we are so why not? Why not announce it? Why not say so, um yeah, I'm just going to say we're already doing this. This is in alignment with what are we doing and.

A

Okay, so yeah, and uh thanks all so I will bring up this topic uh in the developer list. Maybe use this recording to save time uh once it's ready and.