The DEI Project Badging Initiative is a CHAOSS that awards badges to open-source projects that demonstrate diversity and inclusion. This initiative promotes leadership, self-reflection, and self-improvement on issues critical to building the Internet as a social good.

The DEI project badges help open source project maintainers showcase their ongoing commitment to improving and supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion.

• Open Source projects submit their project repository containing a DEI.md file. Check out what a DEI.md file entails and how to create one here.

• The project badging scanner bot will search through the DEI.md file in the specified repository for evidence of required metrics.

• Once the scan is complete, the project will receive a markdown snippet that can be included in the README.md as an image of the DEI Project Badge earned.

• Upon the conclusion of each badging level, the project receives an inclusive language report on how to improve its DEI efforts in order to apply for and earn the next badging level.

Currently, the DEI Project Badge is available in one level

Level	Badge	Requirements Met
Bronze		Presence of DEI.md File

This is a living repository, meaning we are very open to changes and improvements. We follow the GitHub pull-request workflow. More details on specifically what that means can be found in the CONTRIBUTING.md file. If you would like to contribute but aren't sure how to go about doing so, please reach out to the community on Slack or Elizabeth Barron (@ElizabethN). We are happy to help!

Don't forget to give the project a star! Thanks again!

Our heartfelt gratitude to all the maintainers of this project. Thank you for your ongoing efforts to maintain and nurture this project.

• Tochukwu Odeme
• Precious Abubakar
• Kaxada
• iyimide adegunloye
• Ruth Ikegah
• Anita Ihuman
• Kingsley Mkpandiok