[diversity] Notes from the online meeting today (21 December 2017)

DRAFT RIPE Diversity Task Force Minutes - Thursday, 21 December 2017

Attendees: Denesh Bhabuta (UKNOF/DNS-OARC), Shane Kerr (Oracle / Dyn),
Brian Nisbet (HEAnet), Amanda Gowland (RIPE NCC), Donal Cunningham
(HEAnet), Vesna Manojlovic (RIPE NCC)

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Agenda
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- going through the actions list
- new actions
- next meeting: date, topics

Amanda was chairing the meeting.

Minutes from the meeting on 23rd October were approved.


Actions that are either open or done:

ACTION: Write RIPE Labs article on diversity efforts at RIPE 75 [Amanda]

DONE:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/agowland/gaining-momentum-with-ripe-diversity-efforts

ACTION: Investigate remote meet-ups for RIPE 76 [Mirjam and Salam]

Still open.


Ongoing actions:

* ACTION: Reaching out to local tech communities in France [Shane]

	 on 7th December we talks about this, and came up with new actions on
this topic:

- Amanda: write an article:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/agowland/are-you-french-do-you-love-the-internet-tell-your-story-at-ripe-76


New action: investigate organising French-speaking BoF

- Brian will approach PC to ask if this is a good idea

- everyone: look for the volunteer for moderating a BoF in French

- everyone: coordinate this better with regards to local community
meeting dates


* Investigate on-site childcare for RIPE 76 [Amanda]

Question was added to the feedback survey. There were 65 replies,
roughly half said that they are either interested or supporting of the
idea; 12 people gave their contacts for the follow-up inquiry. Amanda
will contact them in January.

* Women-in-tech lunch : working with sponsors, in order to get funding
to pay speakers; we will approach potential speakers early in 2018


* Mentoring [Donal]

Donal sent some notes from his talk with Aaron.

Amanda: currently we do manual pairing; we want to make it an automated
process, with an open call for volunteers to be mentors, and offering
this to newcomers -- so they can be matched according to their expertise
& interests.

Denesh mentioned that, in UKNOF experience, both the "general pool of
available mentors" and the personalized invitation per meeting are needed.

Brian added that this would result in establishing a "new normal", that
would benefit both the existing community, and the newcomers.

* Metrics gathering [Shane]

Numbers from Dubai meeting are processed, and available on GitHb (ADD
LINK LATER) . Denesh was positively surprised with the increased gender
diversity.

Shane is interested in expanding the research in measuring other axes of
diversity - national, regional - and might receive some data complied by
Amanda, if RIPE NCC can share it.


Next meeting will be in February.

Happy & inclusive holidays everybody !!