Gaurav works as a Happiness Engineer at Automattic. He is in the web industry for about 8 years, and have donned a number of hats during this period, including startup founder, developer, designer, business manager, front office, 3d architectural designer, in-house developer etc.
He will be speaking on Diversity and inclusion in open source communities: An Indian perspective
In his words, the key points of the session are:
Diversity and inclusion is a big thing right now, and not only in the tech industry. The problem currently is that the ideas and thoughts about this whole thing are mostly coming out of the west, and from mostly multi-racial, developed countries.
These places have their own issues to deal with, and they are usually different from what we have. The idea of diversity and inclusion in India is very different from that in western cultures, and this is even more pronounced when it comes to how we run communities (because of the transparency involved).
With this talk, I want to explain how I have perceived these issues during my involvement in communities over the years, and want to raise some questions about the current situation, and what can be done to improve (and what exactly do we call improvement in such a case).