Attending: @askdesign, @dashifen, @jillbinder, @julia, @martatorre, @onealtr, @sc0ttkclark, @wpfangirl
Host: @askdesign
Start: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1682528414231389
Summary
0 – Checkins
1 – First time here
2 – Who we are (@jillbinder) + Comments, questions, ideas (anyone)
@jillbinder described our programs and how to get involved.
3 – Q1 review and profile badges + Q2 plans (@jillbinder)
We met all of the Q1 goals:
- 1 Diverse Speaker workshop (we held 2!)
- Support the community on how to run the Diverse Speaker workshop
- 1 Inclusion workshop
- 1 follow-up Inclusion Slack chat
- Speaker placement: At least 1 person applies to speak, gets accepted to speak, or gets mentorship in our channel a month
- At least 25% workshop participants join the Diverse Speaker Support Slack channel
- At least 1 new volunteer
Our Q2 goals:
- Support the community on how to run the Diverse Speaker workshop
- 1 Inclusion workshop (reach 7+ cities, Preparedness to run an inclusive event increase 30%+)
- 1 follow-up Inclusion Slack chat
- Speaker placement: At least 1 person applies to speak, gets accepted to speak, or gets mentorship in our channel a month
- At least 1 new volunteer
Stretch goals:
- Team dashboard
- Slack translation tool add-on
- Diversity in Spain: @martatorre is working on a few projects
- Simplifying our team’s handbook page https://tiny.cc/wpdiversity – @dashifen offered to help
- Creating a page for marketing to link to
4 – Recent & Upcoming workshops (@jillbinder)
Organizing Diverse and Inclusive WordPress Events Follow-up Slack discussion – April 20, 2023. It was a really lively chat!
- 14 people
- 6 countries (India, Luxembourg, Mexico, Philippines, Uganda, United States)
- 14 cities
Our first Inclusion workshop for APAC is May 13, 2023: Organizing Diverse & Inclusive WordPress Events APAC
5 – WPDiversity APAC (@onealtr)
@onealtr shared upcoming WC WordCamps and events
6 – Diversity in Spain project (@martatorre)
At WordCamp Barcelona next week:
- diversity table (Contributor Day)
- giving a talk on diversity
- We talked about Marta’s diversity t-shirt and how to overcome stage fright
7 – WPDiversity t-shirts (@martatorre)
@martatorre gave the update that our team has a 20% off discount coupon for the diversity t-shirt in the WordPress Swag Store
8 – Speaker Wins Game (@jillbinder)
@jillbinder gave an update on our April Speaker Wins game in the diverse-speaker-support channel gaining momentum
9 – Other Updates + Next meeting host (anyone)
@askdesign offered to host again unless someone else wants the role
@jillbinder shared a blog post from a workshop participant about their journey from the workshop to speaking at WordCamp Kerala
@jillbinder is working with @planningwrite on how her Support Inclusion in Tech and our #WPDiversity program can improve how we support one another
End: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1682531988067309