Attending: @askdesign @bobdunn-trainer @juliarosia @katiejrichards @kcrockett @martatorre @onealtr @santanainniss @sc0ttkclark
Attended by proxy: @jillbinder
Host: @sc0ttkclark
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Summary
1 – Attendance and check-ins (everyone)
2 – First time here
3 – Group Goals (@jillbinder) + Comments, Questions, Ideas (anyone)
@jillbinder shared the long-term vision and quarterly goals
4 – Recent Headlines & Upcoming Deadlines (@jillbinder)
Results from the December AMER/EMEA speaker workshop:
- 22 attendees
- 12 countries (Bangladesh, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, Philippines, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Uganda, United States)
- 21 cities
- public speaking confidence increase: 48%
Results from our January APAC speaker workshop:
- 25 attendees (not final number, many are asking for the recording)
- 7 countries (Australia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, United States)
- 23 cities
- public speaking confidence increase: 40%
- We targeted helping WordCamp Kerala with getting more representation in their speaker lineup, and already 3 people from the workshop have applied to speak
Women speakers in India workshop from September 2022:
- I updated the testimonials last week
- As far as I know, so far 3 women from that workshop have spoken since, and several more have applied or are thinking about applying!
Women speakers in Latin America workshop from October 2022:
- I updated the testimonials last week. Twenty-two really powerful testimonials! First few from the list were shared in the meeting.
5 – Marketing (@santanainniss)
Do we have any events with event links ready to promote? Do we have any fresh stats about speaker applications to the flagship events? WC Asia, WC EU?
Idea: A WP Diversity Landing Page
6 – APAC WPDiversity Network Building (@onealtr)
@onealtr: During Contributor day, volunteers from the #WPDiversity team will man a table and hold casual discussions with attendees regarding Diversity in the WP community in Asia. We will hold a workshop and ask people their opinions, experiences and blockers they have encountered in their local communities and how it has changed in the past few years.
7 – Diversity in Spain project (@martatorre)
From @martatorre:
The organizers of the WordCamp Granada 2023 to be held in October have asked me for help to make their event more diverse. In the next few days I will meet with them to see how I can help them and when I know I will comment so that you can give me ideas.
WordCamp Barcelona 2023. We are going to create the first diversity table on contributor day. I have to talk to volunteers to translate the Workshop into Spanish and my idea is to hold a workshop for organizers the day of the event. If you have any other ideas, they are welcome.
8 – Diverse Speaker Support Channel “Wins” project (@jillbinder)
@jillbinder asked for help on how to track the “wins” of the #diverse-speaker-support channel (someone from the channel applied to speak or got accepted to speak, someone from the channel spoke).
Some of the first ideas people gave:
- Spreadsheet people fill out themselves
- Us going through meetup and WordCamp speaker lists to see who from our channel has spoken
- Having the community report to us who from the channel has spoken at their event
9 – Other Updates + Next meeting host (anyone)
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