Re: [Summit topic] Increasing diversity & inclusion (transition to `main`, etc)

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> This session was led by Johannes "Dscho" Schindelin. Supporting cast:
> brian "Bmc" carlson, Jeff "Peff" King, Taylor Blau, CB Bailey, Ævar
> Arnfjörð "Avarab" Bjarmason, Jonathan "Jrnieder" Nieder, Derrick Stolee,
> Lessley Dennington, Glen Choo, Philip Oakley, Victoria Dye, and Jonathan
> "Jonathantanmy" Tan.
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> Notes:
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>  19. Stolee: When we moved from MS to GH, we received quick feedback that we
>      weren’t communicating well - too direct and unemotional. Maybe Git
>      community communicates that way, but that’s not how most people interact;
>      that makes me think that our “efficient and effective” communication is
>      actually too aggressive, and easily interpreted as attacks on
>      contributors. Basically… let’s all lighten up? :)
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>  20. Taylor: Yep, my “talking to GitHubbers at GitHub” voice is different from
>      my “talking to Gitters on Git list” voice. New contributors, are we on the
>      right track here?
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>  34. Avarab: I think it’s a good thing to work on; we need to be really careful
>      about what guidelines we pick and choose. Need to ensure an easy path for
>      new contributors so they don’t need to read hours of documentation for a
>      typo fix. Plus we need to ensure that this doc is accessible for folks who
>      have different first language than English.
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>  35. Bmc: on git-lfs we have a contributor with very little English, so when we
>      did the review I’d offer an alternative text, and we would work together.
>      That process was useful to come up with readable documentation in a
>      helpful way. That is, proposing a solution instead of pointing out the
>      problem and saying “fix it” can help a lot in scenarios like this.
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>  36. Dscho: Yep, this is important and will help us be more accessible to
>      contributors whose English is not super top notch Cambridge exam :)