Whats being prioritised for 2021 OpenSource D&I community

[Jayashree (Jayashree Arunkumar)]

Team , Would like to know the prioritised events planned for OpenSource D&I in 2021

[jwf (Justin W. Flory (he/him))]

Hi @Jayashree, welcome to the Open Source Diversity forum!

Do you mean events related to the Open Source Diversity community, or events about D&I in Open Source generally?

[Jayashree (Jayashree Arunkumar)]

Hi Justin,

Thanks for the warm welcome. I want to know both actually.

[jwf (Justin W. Flory (he/him))]

@Jayashree

I want to know both actually.

I see @mdb shared details about GUADEC in a new thread over here. GUADEC is a great conference with a great community:

GUADEC and LAS CFPs open

At GNOME we organize GUADEC, our annual conference, and co-organize Linux Application Summit with KDE. Both events currently have open CFPs. GUADEC: Due March 22 (likely to be extended). Office hours are scheduled for March 11 and 18. We’re interested in everything FOSS, community, and tech. Office Hours for GUADEC Call for Proposals – Getting to know GNOME LAS: Due March 15 (likely to be extended). Interest in app focused talks, Linux ecosystem, platform diversity, community and collabora…

For the Open Source Diversity community, the honest answer is I tried to take on too much work on my own and didn’t enable others to be more hands-on in helping with co-organizing. The idea is not off the table, but it will take planning and work. Unfortunately, I changed roles and don’t have the same capacity to lead here as I did before.

There was also some discussion about waiting out the pandemic to try for something in-person, but we have not had any other champions come forward yet to be a lead organizer / cat herder.

[Jayashree (Jayashree Arunkumar)]

Thanks Justin. I want to give my best to contribute and lead. Will like to meet with you and understand how I can do that. Please do keep me posted on how we can meet ( google?)

[jwf (Justin W. Flory (he/him))]

@Jayashree

Will like to meet with you and understand how I can do that. Please do keep me posted on how we can meet ( google?)

Hi @Jayashree! Best thing to do is fill out the poll for monthly calls. See the thread @kristi started below:

D&I monthly calls

Hi all, I hope you doing well during these difficult times. During some conversations on telegram and signal we came up with this idea of having monthly calls, to discuss our possible agenda and catch up between each other. I am creating this poll for the best time to have a call. poll Let’s set the deadline on April 11th. After that date once we have the most voted time, I will announce the date of meeting and we can work on an agenda. Thanks, Kristi

You are welcome to be a part of these. It is also the best way to figure out what is going on and any future updates to the summit discussion.