Attending: @askdesign, @bjmcsherry, @coachbirgit, @franrosa, @jasonways, @jillbinder, @onealtr, @sumitsingh, @tantienhime
Host: @jillbinder
Start: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1687971683314019
Summary
0 – Check-ins (everyone)
1 – First time here
2 – Who we are (@jillbinder)
- Our goals, our 3 initiatives, how people can help
3 – WPDiversity Member Updates (everyone)
- Jason wrote about our work in his blog
- Oneal will be speaking at WordCamp Iloilo next week
- Italy will dedicate part of their Community Day in September to diversity speakers
- @coachbirgit is working on 4 big DEIB projects
4 – Workshops (@jillbinder)
- July 1, 2023 (AMER) / July 2, 2023 (APAC): For underrepresented voices who are intrigued about speaking at WordPress events. How to to own our expertise and find a topic to speak at WordPress events:
- July 20, 2023: For WordPress Meetup and WordCamp organizers, or anyone who wants to champion inclusion at WP events: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/organizing-diverse-inclusive-wordpress-events-wpdiversity-tickets-662421088307
- June 16/17, 2023: We held a great follow-up Slack discussion to our last Organizing Inclusive WordPress events APAC. A great way to learn about diversity & inclusion issues in #WordPress in Asia: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RQC7RN/p1686977040555579
5 – Volunteer Dashboard! (@jillbinder)
@jillbinder presented a new, experimental dashboard to help orient volunteers/contributors to the WPDiversity work. See what things we are working on so that anyone can get ideas and jump in.
6 – Project statuses (@jillbinder)
@jillbinder gave updates on:
- Speaker selection doc for WordCamp organizers: in progress
- diverse-speaker-support Brainstorming how we can make the channel more effective: working with ideas from last 2 meetings
- @juliarosia‘s set of questions for organizers to think about diversity and inclusion at their events: @martatorre working on first draft
- Organizing Inclusive & Welcoming Events – new format: initial steps to working with Training Team to make workshop shorter, easier to digest, evergreen
7 – Marketing (@bjmcsherry)
- @bjmcsherry #WPDiversity campaign launching on social media this week. This Friday at 12:17 p.m., Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). It would be great if we could receive a friendly share.
8 – Diversity in Spain projects (@martatorre)
- @martatorre is filling this in async
9 – Comments, questions, ideas (anyone)
- Some thanks expressed to @jillbinder 😀
End: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1687975398845689