Diversity and inclusion team

#1

Dear All, @jessica0greene, @sarah.c.koehler, @jan,

I have started this topic to follow up on our efforts in Diversity and Inclusion area.

We can organize, structure and consolidate information over this thread, in case we haven’t opened another thread before.

Best regards,
Hasan

Notes from our meeting on the 29th (sorry currently in a google doc as my Nextcloud seems to be on the blink) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KtLARPgKRVJ-o3ZtR39bhDSAoU9JGCKjI9nFNe_3Mp0/edit?usp=sharing

#2

My current open points that I want to mention

  • Time scheduling for monthly meetings for OSD D&I organizer team
  • Setting up a space to save our resources (meeting notes, planning boards, files, presentations, etc.)
  • Should we set up a mobile chat group? Can I setup a group on Signal for now?
    We could use an online board to manage these as well.
#3

@jan, @jessica0greene @sarah.c.koehler, Today I have met Noa, who I believe can be an amazing addition to our organizer team.
She is an experienced Data Science and Analytics expert with an extensive in-depth involvement of R programming, and dev communities. She is organizing a number of local and international communities, working actively on driving open source, diversity and inclusion, and for enabling women in tech. She is very interested to collaborate. I suggest we invite her to the forum and to our next meeting.

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#4

Thanks for keeping this alive!
I would say we should definitely invite Noa to join us, we can always use more people to spread the load a bit more.
As it can take a while for everyone to notice posts on this forum, a mobile chat group might be easier to work with. Signal works for me.
Regadring the meeting: I honestly don’t remember, but I think we had a date in mind already for the next meeting, at least I have a note in my calendar for Dec 5th.
To collect our resources and meeting notes, I hope we can use nextcloud for that? I think the shared doc for the hacktoberfest event worked very well.

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☎ Monthly calls?
#5

I think Noa would be a great addition, I very much admire her work with PyData Meetup and the conference this year.

#6

Ive added the notes from the 29th here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KtLARPgKRVJ-o3ZtR39bhDSAoU9JGCKjI9nFNe_3Mp0/edit?usp=sharing (I have also put them in the top level post of this thread) It’s a google Doc, perhaps @jan can transfer it to a Nextcloud doc.

I unfortunately have had to rethink my commitment for the time being and will not be able to offer any time until the new year. I thank you all for your understanding. I hope it’s possible to find some others to support in the meanwhile. Perhaps we can already tweet about it and point people here??

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#7

Either as Python Users Berlin (PUB), or as “myself”, I would like to contribute to this team either with the discussion, or helping through the events you might organize to encourage people to start hacking in some OpenSource project.

I would more than gladly pass the word about this group and its events during the PUB meetups, if that’s OK. We currently have more than 5k members, so spreading the word through Meetup could also be a good idea.

Cheers

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#8

CristiĂĄn, thank you for this, it would be great to cross-communicate when we together organize a hackathon. Please follow this thread. For planning the next hackathon, we want to do an organizational call/meeting for not very far from now, probably by early 2020.