[diversity] Draft minutes - RIPE Diversity TF Meeting - 15 May 2018
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Brian Nisbet
brian.nisbet at heanet.ie
Fri Jun 1 16:16:43 CEST 2018
Amanda, Thanks for this! I did raise some of the points about encouraging more diversity from companies to the PC and WG Chairs. This was somewhat in passing and I think we need to develop this further before bringing more concrete proposals. Brian Brian Nisbet Network Operations Manager HEAnet CLG, Ireland's National Education and Research Network 1st Floor, 5 George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin D01 X8N7, Ireland +35316609040 brian.nisbet at heanet.ie www.heanet.ie Registered in Ireland, No. 275301. CRA No. 20036270 > -----Original Message----- > From: diversity <diversity-bounces at ripe.net> On Behalf Of Amanda > Gowland > Sent: Tuesday 29 May 2018 11:03 > To: diversity at ripe.net > Subject: [diversity] Draft minutes - RIPE Diversity TF Meeting - 15 May 2018 > > Hi everyone, > > Please find the draft minutes from our last meeting below. > > If you have any comments/changes, please send those through before these > get posted online. > > Warm regards, > > Amanda > > --- > > RIPE Diversity Task Force Meeting - 15 May 2018 > > Present: Amanda Gowland,Brian Nisbet, Sara Marcolla, Cristian Sirbu, Ingrid > Veling, Mirjam Kühne, Vesna Manojlovic, Denesh Bhabuta > > Agenda: > > - On-site Childcare Pilot at RIPE 76 > - Gender Metrics update > - Mentoring at RIPE Meetings > - Outreach w. local tech community > - AOB > > On-site Childcare Pilot at RIPE 76 > > Amanda gave an update on the on-site childcare pilot. The room was perfect > - large with a lot of natural light. The provider, WorldWide Kids, did an > amazing job with the set-up. As expected, the take-up wasn't massive > (originally eight children registered but half dropped out before the > meeting). There were five children that ended up in the room but the buzz > on Twitter and at the meeting about the service was hugely positive. > > ISOC was the sponsor for the pilot and we hope that we can secure > additional sponsorship for RIPE 77 in Amsterdam. We expect the take-up to > be much bigger now that word of mouth is out. > > Gender Metrics Update > > Shane gave an update on gathering metrics. He sent an email to the Diversity > TF mailing list with some more ad-hoc metrics, but found it hard to pull info > like this out of the existing data. > > ACTION: Amanda send Shane the data from the gender question linked to > the RIPE 76 registration process. > > ACTION: Amanda to ask Martina to have the gender question actually > integrated into the registration software rather than via a third-party tool + > ask RIPE NCC legal about any GDPR ramifications > > Shane added that he will give an update in the WG Chair Lunch AOB if time > allows to see how they can use the data he's collecting for their working > groups. > > There was a discussion in the group about how the metrics don't take into > account the diversity (or lack thereof) of leadership roles in the RIPE > community - specifically, the RIPE Programme Committee and the Working > Group Chairs. This is something that the TF should start addressing. > > Brian noted that there aren't that many women in leadership roles currently. > > Ingrid asked if there was data on how many women commented at the mics. > > There isn't but the group agreed it would be good to gather this data, let's > think about the best way to do it. > > Shane mentioned that he'd done some software tweaking to try and make > better guesses of gender based on the names. He's still working on it, will be > on GitHub soon. > > Vesna said that she would like it noted that we are aware of the binary issue > (Male identified names, female-identified names) and we will go from there, > it's a starting point. > > Mentoring at RIPE Meetings > > Amanda gave an update on mentoring. They been doing it for the RIPE > Fellowship for the past two meetings and it's worked well, but it's all done ad > hoc and it's quite a lot of work. She would like to implement a more formal > and automated process for getting experienced RIPE community members > on board. She's working on a project plan currently and the plan is to launch > this in time for RIPE 77. > > Ingrid mentioned that she was speaking with a young woman who was > intimidated going to socials. Amanda said that this isn't the first time that > they've heard comments like this - which is why she thinks it's really > important to start fostering allies at meetings so intimidating behaviour can > be recognised more easily. > > Outreach for local tech community > > The TF efforts to engage more actively with the local tech community in > France were not so successful. Brian mentioned that it would be much easier > to do this in Amsterdam. > > Amanda mentioned that she tried very hard to get some French women > working in tech to speak at the Women in Tech lunch but no luck. > > Sara commented that at Europol, they aim to get at least 30% of women at > their conference. Mirjam mentioned that we could consider making it it a > requirement that slots need to be occupied by a certain number of women. > > Denesh commented that it can be a real challenge. At UKNOF, 50% of the > presentation submissions in general are rejected, so they don't have a lot of > female presentation submissions to consider. > > Ingrid asked if there were ever duo-presentations and if not, perhaps it's an > idea to encourage frequent RIPE Meeting presenters to bring a female > colleague on the stage to co-present with them. > > Cristian suggested that perhaps the RIPE PC and WG Chairs could be > proactive about asking their contacts for female presenters. > > Vesna mentioned that many conferences provide funding to bring in more > female presenters. The financial barrier is often a factor. > > Amanda commented that the RIPE Fellowship provides funding to attend > and perhaps it would be good to market this more towards potential female > speakers. > > AOBs > > ACTION: Vesna will schedule the next TF meeting. > > Sara asked to have a meeting with the RIPE Diversity TF and Europol's > Diversity TF. In 2019, they are organising a conference on diversity. > They have budget to fund presenters. > > ACTION: Vesna - organise meeting with Sara. > > Cristian mentioned having a 'companion' ticket - discounted ticket for people > to bring their partners to events. > > Denesh asked why the RIPE NCC explicitly mentioned not having kids on the > conference floor on the childcare page. Amanda explained that when they > announced they would be doing childcare at the last RIPE Meeting, they > received a few negative comments from attendees imagining kids running > around the meeting, so that text was added to just set expectations. > > Mirjam complimented Denesh on UKNOF's diversity and inclusion efforts and > suggested that he give a presentation about this at RIPE 77. > > *Open Actions* > > ACTION: Amanda send Shane the data from the gender question linked to > the RIPE 76 registration process. > > ACTION: Amanda to ask Martina to have the gender question actually > integrated into the registration software rather than via a third-party tool + > ask RIPE NCC legal about any GDPR ramifications > > ACTION: Vesna will schedule the next TF meeting > > ACTION: Vesna - organise meeting with Sara > > > _______________________________________________ > diversity mailing list > diversity at ripe.net > https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/diversity
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