[diversity] Minutes of today's Diversity Task Force Call - 13 July 2018
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Amanda Gowland
agowland at ripe.net
Fri Jul 13 15:02:30 CEST 2018
Just a couple corrections... On 13/07/2018 12:14, Mirjam Kuehne wrote: > Hi all, > > Here are some notes of today's diversity task force call. > > Kind regards, > Mirjam > ====== > > Diversity Task Force Meeting > 13 July 2018 > Brian, Vesna, Amanda, Mirjam, Sami (for the first ten minutes) > > Denesh sent his apologies and an update from UKNOF: “I am working on > having us do a talk at the next RIPE meeting about how we have and are > approaching diversity. I am hoping the talk will be given by someone > else rather than me and at the moment, one of our new board members > (from a couple of months ago) - Liz Stevens - has tentatively agreed to > do this.” > > Updates from RIPE 76 > -------------------- > > Amanda reported that we received a report from the organisation who > facilitated the childcare at RIPE 76 and also from the participants. > Everyone was very positive. There were five kids last time, we expect > around ten at RIPE 77. > More information on RIPE Labs: > https://labs.ripe.net/Members/agowland/ripe-meeting-diversity-efforts-on-site-childcare-at-ripe-76 > > Plans for RIPE 77 > ------------------ > > After it was such a success at RIPE 76, we will provide the same service > at RIPE 77. We are also trying to promote it some more (e.g. on the > registration page). We already found a childcare organisation in > Amsterdam for RIPE 77. We are still looking for sponsors, but the RIPE > NCC is also considering to ask for contributions from the parents (25 > EUR per day). > During the RIPE 77 week, there are school holidays in the south of the > Netherlands. > > We are currently working with sponsor for the Women in Tech lunch. From > now on, we will have a banner for “women and inclusion sponsor” Diversity and Inclusion Sponsor ;) > on the > RIPE Meeting website (in addition to the other sponsor banners). > > The mentorship programme will be offered again for RIPE 77. Mentors can > sign up online for multiple meetings. Newcomers (and other interested > participants) can sign up if they want to have a mentor. Note that the previous mentoring opportunities were for RIPE Fellows. This programme will be about having an ongoign mentor/mentee pairing for any RIPE Meeting attendees. > > Registration for RIPE 77 will open on Monday and will include > information childcare and mentorship. The gender metrics question will > now also be included on the registration form. > > The RIPE Fellowship and the RACI programmes also help to increase diversity. > See more details about the RIPE fellows at RIPE 76 on RIPE Labs: > https://labs.ripe.net/Members/agowland/ripe-fellows-share-their-ripe-76-experiences > > There was also a nice RIPE Labs articles about the benefits of role models: > https://labs.ripe.net/Members/agowland/why-role-models-matter-especially-in-tech > > Vesna announced that there will be a hackathon in Amsterdam prior to > RIPE 77 in collaboration with the University of Delft. > > Benno Overeinder introduced us to the managing director for the Dutch > office of girls and women in tech: https://www.vhto.nl/ > We will see how we can collaborate with her and possibly organise a > session around RIPE 77. > > Brian mentioned that the RIPE Meeting Code of Conduct and the pointer to > the childcare is now in the Call for Presentations. > Also, the PC agreed to ask presenters of larger organisations to > possibly consider proposing another speaker/colleague to increase > diversity in general. > > There is now also a line in the CfP about panels to increase more > diversity in terms of companies/organisations. In the future, the PC > would also like to include another sentence, something like: “We would > also ask you to consider the diversity of the panel (in terms of gender, > culture, etc.).” > > Vesna suggested to make the PC system more flexible to be able to change > names/presenters more easily. Vesna will follow-up with the PC and the > RIPE NCC web services team. > > Vesna also mentioned that she will talk to local groups in the > Netherlands. And we we will also encourage others to do that. > > Other activities > ----------------- > > Vesna is involved in organising a feminist meeting in Amsterdam in > September. She will present about Internet Governance and will promote > our diversity efforts. > > Mirjam reported that Shane looked at other methodologies to measure > diversity at RIPE. He also suggested to look at the criteria we use to > hand out prices at the end of the RIPE Meeting (current first person who > registers wins a price and first Newcomer who registers wins a price). > Maybe it’s time to look at other criteria? The idea used to be to > encourage participation. But that is not really necessary anymore. > > Brian said it’s meant to be a silly fun thing and cautioned us to > over-engineer it. > Other suggestions were made on the call: > - possibly take the first five or ten registrants and pick one of them > (only if that person is in the room). > - possibly award the 77th registration at RIPE 77 and so on (if that > person is not in the room, pick another silly number). > > The RIPE NCC will come up with a proposal and send it to the diversity list. > > We agreed to do another call in September. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > diversity mailing list > diversity at ripe.net > https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/diversity
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