TMRG - Global Voices

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• Mission
• Objectives
• Leads
• Executive Sponsors
• Current Goals
• How to Participate

Mission

Increase awareness to GitLab’s globally diverse team, the derivatives of having a global team as it relates to the wider GitLab team as well as the company, and improve the daily work life of our global team members.

Objectives

The Global Voices TMRG has determined the three main objectives to generate impact on in order to fulfill our mission:

1. Empower global team members to celebrate global representation and its benefits
2. Serve as a springboard for ideas to improve global inclusiveness to the day-to-day of GitLab employees
3. Advocate for global diversity across the organization

Leads

1. Eliran Mesika - Lead
2. Marin Jankovski - Co-Lead
3. Charlie Ablett - Co-Lead

Executive Sponsors

Jörg Heilig, CTO.

Current Goals

With our mission and objectives in mind, we are taking a goal-oriented approach to iterative improvement. We've decided to work on a rough 6 month horizon, defining goals we'd like to target with that timeframe. For the current active horizon we'll be focusing on two:

1. Focused on global recruiting and retainment of team members
   1. Of our three objectives, this one helps address two of them and we think is a fundamental part of having a globally diverse team.
   2. It is larger in scope and will likely involve more collaboration and cross-functional discussions on how we can help drive progress with this goal. Iteration will be key to making sure there’s focus and fulfillment.
   3. This will likely require 2-3 people that are interested in exploring the topic and leading it.
2. Focus on the daily life as a global team member
   1. This will be made up of several specific initiatives where a solution is more visible and attainable. We need to determine what these will be but are thinking of 2-4 small initiatives here.
   2. These will likely short term and could easily be led by a single team member.
   3. We encourage and welcome new initiatives team members are interested in.

How to Participate

• Join the Google Group
• Join the #global-voices-tmrg Slack channel for conversation, announcements, and connecting with other TMRG members. Please introduce yourself and tell us where you are based when you join the channel!
• Open an issue on our GitLab project, gitlab-com/global-voices-tmrg