Participate
There are a number of ways you can participate in the INI community.
Join as a Contributor
Contributors are active volunteers who help to run the activities of the Initiative.
Reviewers
Reviewers are passionate about inclusivity and seek ways to contribute to inclusive language efforts. A reviewer commits a couple of hours a month to review new term submissions and share their perspectives towards the recommendation of the term. The workflow of a reviewer is as follows:
- A reviewer is added to a dedicated mailing list where new terms and other communications are sent
- A reviewer collaborates with other reviewers via issues, slack or Google Docs
- Where a vote is required, a reviewer votes on the adoption of a recommendation.
- A reviewer can also be a Maintainer
Maintainers
Maintainers are familiar with GitHub and have technical knowledge to contribute to the website projects. Maintainers’ activities include the following:
- Triage issues in the website and org projects, keeping them updated and ensuring they don’t become stale
- Create code changes or Pull requests to update the wordlist and website project
- Collaborate with leads on tooling for the projects
- Advise and provide support as available to the initiative.
- Time commitment is 1-2 hours per week
- A contributor can be a reviewer and a maintainer.
You can sign up to be a contributor using our Call for Participation form.
General Community
You can be a part of the general community, learning and sharing with other members:
- Join the mailing list: inclusivenaming@googlegroups.com . Send an email to inclusivenaming+subscribe@googlegroups.com if you want to use a non-Google email address.
- Join the slack
- Join public meetings, the meeting calendar is always up to date and you can get invitations to the meetings via the mailing list!
- Follow us on Twitter: @inclusivenaming and LinkedIn
View the project board and file issues
The Project Board is where we track the work being done for the Inclusive Naming Initiative. You can also file issues for work you’d like to see or open questions you have via the inclusivenaming/org repository .
Make changes in your projects
Use the resources we’ve compiled so far–the Word replacement list , Implementation path , and the Language evaluation framework –and start making changes in your own projects! This is the most impactful way to get involved and help us achieve our goal as an initiative.
Approach other projects
Outreach to other projects, to encourage them to change their language, needs to be handled carefully, patiently, and compassionately. We’ve collected some tips on approaching projects to increase your chances of success.