[diversity] Notes from a short informal brainstorm today in NCC's office

Vesna,

Thanks for this.

I'm available on the 21st for this call. It is, however, my last working
day of the year, so I may be in a very festive mood. :)

Brian

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On 07/12/2017 16:01, Vesna Manojlovic wrote:
> Hi task-force,
> 
> we had a short meeting today, since Shane was visiting RIPE NCC offices.
> Amanda, Mirjam & Vesna were the other participants.
> 
> We talked about:
> 
> * actions from the previous meeting: mostly done, mostly by Amanda.
> 
> * plans for the next "women in tech" lunch at RIPE76: since it was a
> success, we now need to have: more space, more speakers, more sponsors.
> there is progress on all these aspects, but still work to be done.
> 
> * most of the time we've spent planning on how to tackle the challenges
> of increasing the involvement of the local communities. We identified
> organisations & individuals we can approach to help us; and next
> concrete task is to draft a message to send to them, on _how_ can they
> take part, and why... work in progress.
> 
> * an open question is: shall we have a French-speaking BoF session?
> Any volunteers to organise it, facilitate & moderate it?
> Knowledge of French language is a must!
> 
> * finally, let's have an on-line meeting: 21st December, Thursday, 11AM
> Amsterdam time. I'll send the details once we set up the WebEx "room".
> 
> Then we can produce the "official" notes with "official" participants.
> 
> If this is not a good time & no-one shows up, we'll try again in January
> 2018.
> 
> Vesna
> 
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