[Bigbang-dev] Updates on diversity measurement, interest in BigBang

[Sebastian Benthall]

Hi all,

Couple things:

- Anthony Skopatz has a notebook out about gender diversity in SciPy
leadership that has some interesting metrics and ways to deal with
nonbinary gender identities:

http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/scopatz/nf-project-inequality/blob/9b83df3090c9b9b1b953d2905d428b71165ce607/nf-project-inequality.ipynb

- Some nice folks at NYU's Guarini Global Law and Tech
<https://www.guariniglobal.org/>Institute are getting into the "Critical
Digital Infrastructure" space and I'm trying to encourage them to use
BigBang in some way. Please let me know if you're interested in being part
of conversations with them and I can try to schedule a meeting.

- Chris Holdgraf, Stuart Geiger, and Yuvi Panda at Berkeley's BIDs are
rumored to be working on software sustainability issues. Good folks. Based
on a chat with Chris, diversity of institutional affiliation is a key
metric of interest.

I know this feature has gotten some attention lately and there's some
question about validating it. I wonder if it's a good thing to focus on for
a next iteration.

In general, while I know we're all *very* excited about the next paper
we're going to write, I have to mention (partly to remind myself) that the
next release, 0.2.1
<https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.2.1>,
is a just a small concerted effort away. I'm wondering who else besides me
might be inclined to pick up some of that slack Maybe we could commit to
helping each other move the ball forward.

Cheers,
Seb
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