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We wanted to update the community a bit about things happening within the diversity initiative.

As part of the efforts of the diversity initiative we are looking at ways to make the experience for everyone more enjoyable and to make it easier for newcomers to get a foothold in the community. So one of the things we want to help achieve is to allow people to build networks. Since not everyone is a natural at this we would like to highlight to concrete ways in which we hope to make it easier for everyone: Conference buddies and sticker.

We're very pleased to launch our scholarship program for SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2019! We're also launching a fundraising campaign to finance the scholarship program, check here all the details!

At the hackathon in Brussel, CARE team member Michelle pointed out that the bulk of the incidents noted in the CARE team transparency report for 2018 revolved around code reviews on GitHub. In some situations discussions failed to remain productive and escalated for the worse. We want to take the time to highlight some of the best practices in the Symfony documentation to help prevent such issues in the future.

The Symfony Community is not only GitHub. The Symfony Diversity Initiative aims to make all channels fun & safe places to interact with others. This post focuses on what this means for people asking & answering questions on StackOverflow.

SymfonyCon talk about “One year diversity initiative” has been published for free. A governance process for the diversity initiative has been added to the documentation. More information about how to donate in different currencies and via Paypal. Also given the positive feedback on our twitter poll for a speaker mentoring workshop, we have decided that we want to offer this training in two sessions on March 24th and 31st at 10:00 PST / 19:00 CET. But we still need donations to be able to afford to offer this training. So please donate if you can!

Transparency report for the activities done by the Symfony Code of Conduct Active Response Ensurers team during 2018.

In order to increase diversity in our community, we want to focus on building up more diverse speakers at our events by organizing an online workshop for people who identify as being part of an underrepresented group. This is a hands-on workshop that aims to cover all the important things needed, from coming up with talk proposals to speaking confidence along with a chance to practice speaking in a small group. Please follow the link to a poll on Twitter to voice your interest!

Latest update on the diversity initiative featuring an update from SymfonyCon, information about the launching of bi-weekly chat meetings as well as how we aim to setup a governance process and improvements on how we collect donations.

We're very pleased to launch our scholarship program for SymfonyCon Lisbon 2018! We're also launching a fundraising campaign to finance the scholarship program, check here all the details!