19:00:31 #startmeeting Ansible Diversity Working Group | Agenda: https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/577 19:00:31 Meeting started Thu Apr 15 19:00:31 2021 UTC. 19:00:31 This meeting is logged and archived in a public location. 19:00:31 The chair is jillr. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 19:00:31 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 19:00:31 The meeting name has been set to 'ansible_diversity_working_group_|_agenda:_https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/577' 19:00:39 o/ 19:00:43 o/ 19:00:47 o/ 19:00:53 #chair cybette tadeboro misc 19:00:53 Current chairs: cybette jillr misc tadeboro 19:01:01 hey y'all 19:01:17 #topic D&I at PyCon US 2021 19:01:55 #link PyCon 2021 US https://us.pycon.org/2021/ 19:02:14 I can't remember if I mentioned this in an earlier meeting, but we were unable to sponsor the pyladies auction. by the time I confirmed with robyn about the budget etc. and tried to contact PSF, the sponsorship opportunity was claimed by someone else. 19:02:43 :( that's too bad 19:03:24 however, we (Red Hat) have a booth at pycon and I proposed that we highlight some D&I efforts at the booth (both what RH is doing as well as Ansible Community) 19:04:27 jillr and I will join the planning meetings next week to discuss details, but in the meantime, any ideas what we can showcase? (links, videos, docs etc.) 19:04:46 (it's still a virtual event...) 19:06:01 I guess that this would be the right place to ask to people what we could do, but I suspect that 1) that's going to be a lot more work 2) this would be asking to people who are already in the industry so kinda biased 19:06:23 (and 3) I suspect we are not out of ideas on what to do :/ ) 19:06:46 yeah 19:07:08 we could make them do a test run of a survey :p 19:07:29 haha great idea :D 19:08:15 well we can incentivize them with some small swag items 19:08:19 o/ 19:08:23 what sorts of things would we want to ask? Awareness type things, or more specific feedback? 19:08:29 #chair thedoubl3j 19:08:29 Current chairs: cybette jillr misc tadeboro thedoubl3j 19:08:29 #chair thedoubl3j 19:08:29 Current chairs: cybette jillr misc tadeboro thedoubl3j 19:08:55 yeah, say "tell us what you think about this draft and get a sticker") 19:09:17 I was just about to add that cybette, wasn't sure what that situation looked like since it was virtual and the logistics of getting things places 19:10:00 I guess thedoubl3j is a couch with 8 legs now? ;) 19:10:09 I will be able to ship out stuff to tens of people if needed 19:10:51 (but yeah I can't wait until we can have in-person events again, I won't even complain about jetlag) 19:11:29 same, except I would complain about jetlag 19:11:33 :D 19:11:42 cybette: do we know if there are D&I booth things planned for Summit we can take ideas from? 19:11:55 I'm sure we'll cover that in the call next week though 19:12:54 jillr: I'll need to ask, I don't think they have covered anything D&I specific in the general summit planning (readouts) 19:13:38 right we can ask that in next week's call 19:15:32 misc: what kind of draft were you thinking of? a draft of some kind of plan, or..? 19:15:36 * samccann strolls in late as usual 19:15:42 #chair samccann 19:15:42 Current chairs: cybette jillr misc samccann tadeboro thedoubl3j 19:15:47 hi samccann ! 19:17:25 scrolling way back - things we could emphasize that the community has done - both docs and code made the conscious language changes recommended by Red Hat 19:18:09 jillr: I think there was discussion on doing a survey for the CoC and meetup 19:18:13 so no more blacklist etc in Ansible (though we don't control collections using this) 19:18:20 good call, I think we still have half a blog written about that which I could honestly use a lot of help with if we still want to do it 19:18:36 misc: yeah that's also blocking on me :( 19:18:52 samccann: good ideas, thanks! 19:18:56 I'm not a great writer and there's been some stuff that's taken a lot of my time and bandwidth lately 19:19:43 yeah, writing can be hard, I totally get that 19:19:45 jillr: you're not alone, the contrib summit blog post is pending on me as well... 19:19:50 I could move the blog draft from google docs to hackmd if folks want to work on it there 19:20:07 worth a go! 19:21:55 https://hackmd.io/JdEiQKf7RjanavjOCPnTew 19:22:12 there's probably a bunch of things that need to be cleaned up in there, but that's a raw dump 19:22:41 we'd talked a bit internally iirc about maybe submitting it to opensource.com instead of putting it though the Ansible blog review process 19:22:45 oh, #link https://hackmd.io/JdEiQKf7RjanavjOCPnTew 19:23:43 but, if we could get it into the world somewhere before pycon we could promote it there 19:24:33 yeah osdc could work, although I could probably help push it through the Ansible blog process (I have 2 other posts in the pipeline) 19:24:57 +1 I don't personally have a preference either way 19:25:09 Ansible blog seems a good place/fit, but dunno how hard it is to get it out there in time etc 19:26:13 Getting thins published on Ansible blog got quite a bit more complicated latelly. Opensource.com things tend to go over faster. 19:26:45 yeah I don't have super strong feelings either way. 19:26:54 it's 4 weeks to pycon, if we can get the blog post done in the next 2 weeks, it's still possible 19:27:11 I can do reviews (both copy/line edits and content/structural) pretty easily and whenever, but I don't know if I can commit to writing new copy in the new couple weeks 19:27:19 *next couple 19:28:31 I hesitate to volunteer as I have RH summit and kubecon coming up.. (one after another right before pycon) 19:29:15 I pinged alicia to see if she's up for an edit of jillr's draft. She's far better at blog joy than I am 19:29:29 thanks samccann ! 19:29:37 but she's out today so may not hear back till..erm.. Monday 19:29:49 thanks samccann! we can also ask around internally, we have a D&I group inside RH Ansible as well 19:30:07 +1 19:32:13 So we'll see if we can find folks to write words over the next week, as well as talk to RH events about coordinating some D&I ideas for the pycon booth, 19:32:41 cybette and I can drop an update in this channel and the agenda sometime next week when we have traction on those things, in advance of the next meeting 19:33:03 +1 what jillr said 19:33:16 cool 19:33:50 any other ideas for things we could try to do as a community for Pycon US? 19:35:20 possibly promote this meeting/wg? get the wiki/other descriptors out there? (if they aren't already) 19:35:49 we do have a wiki but it could also probably use some writing 19:36:05 #link https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/Diversity 19:36:28 and we should definitely promote this group 19:38:41 there is https://opensourcediversity.org/ 19:39:37 I think they are looking at doing some monthly meeting (in case someone want more video calls) 19:40:03 (the telegram channel is a bit more active than the forum) 19:40:08 yeah I'm going to be a No on more video calls :) but this is really cool, thanks misc! 19:40:24 I've been wanting to join some of their meeting but last I checked they clashed with some of my meetings :P 19:41:04 although I'm lurking in their telegram group (or the matrix bridge to it) 19:45:28 #topic open floor 19:49:21 very lively group we are today! ;) 19:49:27 hehe :) 19:49:35 we can probably call it for today 19:49:39 thanks everyone! 19:49:43 #endmeeting