Are you using woke? Let us know!!!

[caitlinelfring]

Is your organization using woke? Is your open source project using it to ensure inclusive language from contributors? If so, we'd love to know!

As more and more companies and projects commit to inclusive language, the effect of this public commitment turns viral, which means inclusivity will expand further and further. That's the goal!

We'd love to know if you're using woke. Either comment on this ticket and we'll add you to our list in https://docs.getwoke.tech/about/#who-uses-woke, or open a PR yourself (https://github.com/get-woke/woke/blob/main/docs/about.md)!

[mkcomer]

My team at Microsoft - Commercial Software Engineering - is using woke on our customer engagements & promoting inclusive linting across our organization.

https://microsoft.github.io/code-with-engineering-playbook/continuous-integration/inclusive-linting/

[skyzyx]

At McGraw Hill (formerly McGraw Hill Education), I work in Cloud Engineering.

We have a team that builds Terraform Modules that can be re-used as building blocks by our application and site reliability engineering teams. We also have automation and tooling around continuous integration, monitoring and alerting, build and dependency versioning and artifacts, base OS images for Docker and our hosts, cybersecurity tooling, and all kinds of other things that form the foundation of engineering. It's all internal code at the moment, but it's shared across dozens of engineering teams in our mid-size company in the EdTech space.

Useful, understandable, and genuinely helpful technical documentation is a core tenet to what we do. (We believe that documentation is "worth 50% of your grade".) Descriptions used in the source code that gets generated into documentation are all important bits. Written prose is important. Code samples, examples, and tests are important. woke helps us re-think certain phrases so that we can come up with something better, yet just as understandable as the words and phrases we used to use. For example changing whitelist → allow-list is just as understandable and avoids inadvertent subtle racism.

This, on its own, is not a complete solution for racism/sexism/misogyny in this world. There are definitely bigger things to solve and further strides we need to take. But it's one small step in the right direction, it's low-effort, and it's easy to integrate into existing processes without having to get permission or authorization from anyone so we can get started now.

[caitlinelfring]

@mkcomer I'd love to add Microsoft to the list of users of woke. I can open a PR for your approval and include the link you provided with your approval.

@skyzyx I'd also love to add McGraw Hill to the list of users, with your approval. Is there a link I can include?

The list is found here: https://docs.getwoke.tech/about/#who-uses-woke

[jcraigk]

We are using this at Weedmaps as a linter step in our CI/CD pipeline. Thanks for making this tool, it saves engineers from having to scan the files manually, and it raised several new terms we were not previously aware were culturally sensitive.

[tyll]

We are using this at https://github.com/linux-system-roles

[ananpadm]

We are using woke tool to scan our code for inclusive language keywords @ Cisco
Would it be possible to detect if the code is open source while scanning or is there any plan/roadmap to get it done?
This feature would greatly help and much appreciated if made available during the scan