I would love to help with this, but a medical situation has just got a
bit worse, and I don't know how much time and energy I will have between
now and ApacheConNA. I am not even sure I will be able to attend.
I would be happy to help on as and when I can, but I cannot commit to a
role where failure to act could cause problems.
On 5/8/2019 11:48 AM, Gris Cuevas wrote:
Hi Patricia - thank you so much for bringing this to attention.
I agree with you that D&I should be part of community track for the reason you
stated, that been said, would you be willing to help represent the D&I POV in the
selection committee for the community track? You and I could coordinate selecting
content and specially mapping gaps where we could work on inviting speakers who are
matter experts.
For example, I'd love to have a panel on D&I and invite folks from Mozilla and
Drupal, also from CHAOSS and ask Sharan to moderate.
I would also love to facilitate a brainstorming session on what could we do as a
community to address D&I in our projects in a safe and compelling way.
There might be content that overlaps with this, but we don't know until we
review the submissions.
Anyway, re-stating my ask to you Patricia - Would you like to represent D&I in
the reviewers committee for the community track, and work with me to identify gaps
and proactively find content to address them?
@Rich - I'm assuming you'd be ok with us proactively inviting external folks
and curating some content after CfP closes. Would you be supportive of this?
On 2019/05/01 18:54:03, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote:
On 5/1/2019 9:52 AM, Rich Bowen wrote:
On 4/30/19 7:52 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
The call for presentations for ApacheCon North America closes in less
than 2 weeks, so I assume anyone planning a presentation has either
already submitted it, or is close to doing so.
If only this were so. History says that 50% of submissions will come in
the last week, and almost 50% of *that* in the last 48 hours. People do
like to put this off as long as possible.
To clarify: I did not mean the submissions would already be in, but that
most people who will turn them in on the last day have already given the
matter at least some thought.
Can the D&I papers fit in the Community track? Does Diversity need a
separate partial track?
In some ways going in the Community track seems better to me because
there may be more opportunity to bring diversity issues to the attention
of people who are interested in Community but not yet thinking about
diversity.
Related: I just sent a CFP export to planners@ and you can have a look
there to see what the current state is of the community track, and D&I
submissions.
However, the people here on this list right now are the ones best placed
to submit those D&I talks, or to specifically go out and invite the
people that we want to give them. Please, if you know the right people
for this, do go be proactive in inviting them.
--Rich
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