Aim

To promote KDE to a more diverse range of people, acquire new contributors, increase diversity within the community, acquire knowledge from different backgrounds.

Rationale

Despite the fact KDE is an accepting community and has moved past most of the hang-ups and prejudices that affect other tech collectives, there is still a lack of diversity within. Most of our contributors (especially on the tech side) are men and most are white, from European extraction.

This has an effect on the software and messaging we produce. Our cultural backgrounds influence what our software does, what it looks like. how it behaves, and how we promote it to the outside world. To be blunt: a community composed largely of white men will produce software (and promotional materials) that appeals largely to white men.

This is not only counterproductive to our attempts to grow our community, but also goes against our vision that explicitly states that we work for everyone.

Actions

In this task we will collect ideas for policies and plans to correct the imbalance that currently exists within our community.

This task will also serve as the parent task for other subtasks that will aim to solve issues concerning specific collectives, such as women, people of certain ethnicity that are not part of our community, people in need of accessible technology, etc.