Q: diversity, outreach: how are we doing?

[ I'm sending questions quickly, but there's no urgency to answer ]

Hi Sruthi,

I must admit I am a bit clueless about diversity and outreach efforts in
other Free Software projects. So I have absolutely no idea about how we
are performing compared to others. Clearly we could improve, but are
others doing better than we do? Which part of the issue is global to
the Free Software world as a whole, and which part is specific to Debian?

Do you have numbers to share? Are there nice initiatives in other Free
Software projects that we should copy?

Not a question but a comment: related to outreach, in a recent
discussion about DebConf attendance, there was a subthread about online
events, and a mention of webinar-like setting. Maybe that's something
that is relatively cheap to explore:
- make sure that videos/slides we already produce during events are
  properly referenced so that it's easy to find them if someone is
  looking for information on a specific topic (like a Youtube channels
  with appropriate playlists -- I'm not actually suggesting the
  use of Youtube for that, or maybe I am)
- produce content specifically targetted at newcomers, like higher
  quality "onboarding videos", with both technical and organizational
  content

Lucas