2024-03-08 DEIB Working Group Meeting

[CoachBirgit]

Welcome everyone to the fortnightly meeting of the DEIB working group, a dedicated collective within the WordPress community focused on championing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging as we pave the way toward establishing an official team.

For those new or needing a refresher, here's a link to the DEIB proposal.

When

March 08, 2024 – 1 pm (UTC)

Where

At #DEIB-working-group channel on Slack or access the chat room via the Matrix bridge over the browser on https://wp-deib.org/chat/. You need to login with your wordpress.org credentials to access the chat room. Please be aware of it, that the Matrix chat isn't fully accessible ready yet!

Agenda

1. Member Introductions
2. Good news thread
3. What did have we worked on since the last meeting?
4. Open GitHub tasks
5. Housekeeping / Announcements
6. Open Floor Discussion on DEIB within WordPress

Member Introductions

• Please share:
  • Your name, your WordPress.org profile name and where are you from
  • Your involvement with WordPress.
  • Icebreaker question: What is your favorite thing to cook at home?

Good news thread:

Tell us what did you learn, or what was accomplished in the last couple of weeks in WordPress which has improved Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging?

Activities for Raising Awareness

• Podcasts

  • A new podcast series around DEIB hosted by Birgit Olzem on the Do_the Woo "The WordPress Way". Listen to the first episode: Bringing DEIB to the WordPress Way Show with Birgit Olzem and Angela Jin

• WordCamp Asia talks and panels around DEIB

  • Shaping the Future with WordPress Women
  • Make (All) WordPress (Events) Accessible
  • Converting Walled Gardens into Community Gardens
  • Insights from WordPress Contribution: What Makes Us Impactful
  • What Does Underrepresentation Mean? What Is Allyship? And Why Does it Matter?

• Mentorship

  • Announcing the Second Cohort (2024 Q1) of the WordPress Contributor Mentorship Program

What did have we worked on since the last meeting?

Please share what you have managed to work on the last two weeks.
Reminder: We are all volunteers with time-constrains. Every contribution counts!

Open GitHub tasks

Volunteers welcome to work on those tickets.

• Update the README.md #4
• Create a CONTRIBUTING.md file and add it to the repo #3
• Reviewing results and survey questions on DEIB from the Italian WordPress community #14 (assigned to Simona Simionato)
• [IDEA] Running a survey on DEIB in WordPress #15
• Panel discussion proposal for WCEU 2024 #13 – waiting for approval from WCEU content team
• Extract Actionable Items from Community Summit 2023 Notes #10
• Check on proposal for linking supporting orgs on WordPress.org #21
• Materials for DEIB Training #18

Housekeeping / Announcements

Office hours in virtual coworking room on Zoom

Alternating to the text-based fortnightly meetings in Slack, we experiment with virtual coffee coworking via Zoom to learn or work synchronously on certain tasks. It aims to be a safe space. The session won't be recorded. The link to the Zoom room will be shared in Slack in advance. The next virtual coworking office hours will be held on March 29, 2024 – 2 pm (UTC)

Open Floor Discussion on DEIB within WordPress

• What DEIB successes/challenges have you observed in WordPress since the last meeting? Anything this group can do?

Ideas or suggestions

Anything else? Please leave a comment to add to the meeting.