Attending: @askdesign, @javiercasares, @jillbinder, @juliarosia, @katiejrichards, @kcrockett, @martatorre, @onealtr, @santanainniss, @sc0ttkclark, @webcommsat
Host: @jillbinder
Start: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1677088827008949
Summary
1 – Attendance and check-ins (everyone)
2 – First time here
3 – Workshops (@jillbinder)
Upcoming:
- March 1, 2023: Speaker workshops for Americas/Europe. We have a few speaker mentors and we are looking for more.
- March 16, 2023: Organizing Inclusive and Welcoming WordPress events. Link and region coming soon.
Recent:
- Updates to the results from the January APAC speaker workshop. 6 new attendees via watching the recording = 31 attendees total, 28 cities, 10 countries!
- Jill shared the great testimonials from the workshop
- 4 speakers from this workshop + our women in India workshop Sept 2022 applied to speak at WordCamp Kerala
Other updates:
- A Meetup in Africa is asking about holding our speaker workshop at their meetup
4 – Marketing (@santanainniss)
@santanainniss has been promoting our upcoming March 1 workshop.
5 – WPDiversity at WC Asia (@onealtr)
- 15 people attended the WPDiversity discussion at the Community Team table at WC Asia. This was the largest discussion
- Discussion was facilitated by @onealtr, @alliennimmons, and @bobdunn-trainer
- They discussed things such as: Diversity challenges in the past. What is diversity in Asia? How did WCUS and WCEU work on their mix of speakers. What the results were of getting a diverse speaker lineup at WC Asia.
6 – Diversity in Spain project (@martatorre)
Things @martatorre has done recently:
- offered to speak at WC Barcelona about diversity and what we are doing in this group
- thinking about doing a brainstorming session with organizers and/or volunteers to see Diversity things they can do for the WordCamp Barcelona community table
- in the next few weeks, Marta will meet with the WordCamp Granada team to help you make their event more diverse
7 – Diverse Speaker Support Channel “Wins” project (@jillbinder)
Jill talked through her current ideas on how to track speaker wins in the #diverse-speaker-support channel and got feedback from the group
8 – Other Updates + Comments, Questions, Ideas + Next meeting host (anyone)
- Jill is working on a road map of workshops and team goals from now until end of August 2023
- Jill is working on a “dashboard” so that everyone can see where we are and where we’re going, and feel more empowered to help out more
- @onealtr is going to speak at Meetup Manila on March 11, 2023 about contributing to Learn.WordPress.org
- @martatorres asked: “Any ideas to find people to join from other countries where there is not much diversity?” We discussed it a little in the meeting and also talked about where to ask the question (on the #community-events channel (during our official discussion hours or any time— and cross-post the link on #diverse-speaker-support so that people know to go answer the question)
End: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1677092384362039