[diversity] Minutes of today's Diversity Task Force Call - 13 July 2018

Just a couple corrections...

On 13/07/2018 12:14, Mirjam Kuehne wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here are some notes of today's diversity task force call.
>
> Kind regards,
> Mirjam
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> Diversity Task Force Meeting
> 13 July 2018
> Brian, Vesna, Amanda, Mirjam, Sami (for the first ten  minutes)
>
> Denesh sent his apologies and an update from UKNOF: “I am working on
> having us do a talk at the next RIPE meeting about how we have and are
> approaching diversity. I am hoping the talk will be given by someone
> else rather than me and at the moment, one of our new board members
> (from a couple of months ago) - Liz Stevens - has tentatively agreed to
> do this.”
>
> Updates from RIPE 76
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> Amanda reported that we received a report from the organisation who
> facilitated the childcare at RIPE 76 and also from the participants.
> Everyone was very positive. There were five kids last time, we expect
> around ten at RIPE 77.
> More information on RIPE Labs:
> https://labs.ripe.net/Members/agowland/ripe-meeting-diversity-efforts-on-site-childcare-at-ripe-76
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> Plans for RIPE 77
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> After it was such a success at RIPE 76, we will provide the same service
> at RIPE 77. We are also trying to promote it some more (e.g. on the
> registration page). We already found a childcare organisation in
> Amsterdam for RIPE 77. We are still looking for sponsors, but the RIPE
> NCC is also considering to ask for contributions from the parents (25
> EUR per day).
> During the RIPE 77 week, there are school holidays in the south of the
> Netherlands.
>
> We are currently working with sponsor for the Women in Tech lunch. From
> now on, we will have a banner for “women and inclusion sponsor”
Diversity and Inclusion Sponsor ;)
>   on the
> RIPE Meeting website (in addition to the other sponsor banners).
>
> The mentorship programme will be offered again for RIPE 77. Mentors can
> sign up online for multiple meetings. Newcomers (and other interested
> participants) can sign up if they want to have a mentor.
Note that the previous mentoring opportunities were for RIPE Fellows. 
This programme will be about having an ongoign mentor/mentee pairing for 
any RIPE Meeting attendees.
>
> Registration for RIPE 77 will open on Monday and will include
> information childcare and mentorship. The gender metrics question will
> now also be included on the registration form.
>
> The RIPE Fellowship and the RACI programmes also help to increase diversity.
> See more details about the RIPE fellows at RIPE 76 on RIPE Labs:
> https://labs.ripe.net/Members/agowland/ripe-fellows-share-their-ripe-76-experiences
>
> There was also a nice RIPE Labs articles about the benefits of role models:
> https://labs.ripe.net/Members/agowland/why-role-models-matter-especially-in-tech
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> Vesna announced that there will be a hackathon in Amsterdam prior to
> RIPE 77 in collaboration with the University of Delft.
>
> Benno Overeinder introduced us to the managing director for the Dutch
> office of girls and women in tech: https://www.vhto.nl/
> We will see how we can collaborate with her and possibly organise a
> session around RIPE 77.
>
> Brian mentioned that the RIPE Meeting Code of Conduct and the pointer to
> the childcare is now in the Call for Presentations.
> Also, the PC agreed to ask presenters of larger organisations to
> possibly consider proposing another speaker/colleague to increase
> diversity in general.
>
> There is now also a line in the CfP about panels to increase more
> diversity in terms of companies/organisations. In the future, the PC
> would also like to include another sentence, something like: “We would
> also ask you to consider the diversity of the panel (in terms of gender,
> culture, etc.).”
>
> Vesna suggested to make the PC system more flexible to be able to change
> names/presenters more easily. Vesna will follow-up with the PC and the
> RIPE NCC web services team.
>
> Vesna also mentioned that she will talk to local groups in the
> Netherlands. And we we will also encourage others to do that.
>
> Other activities
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> Vesna is involved in organising a feminist meeting in Amsterdam in
> September. She will present about Internet Governance and will promote
> our diversity efforts.
>
> Mirjam reported that Shane looked at other methodologies to measure
> diversity at RIPE. He also suggested to look at the criteria we use to
> hand out prices at the end of the RIPE Meeting (current first person who
> registers wins a price and first Newcomer who registers wins a price).
> Maybe it’s time to look at other criteria?  The idea used to be to
> encourage participation. But that is not really necessary anymore.
>
> Brian said it’s meant to be a silly fun thing and cautioned us to
> over-engineer it.
> Other suggestions were made on the call:
> - possibly take the first five or ten registrants and pick one of them
> (only if that person is in the room).
> - possibly award the 77th registration at RIPE 77 and so on (if that
> person is not in the room, pick another silly number).
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> The RIPE NCC will come up with a proposal and send it to the diversity list.
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> We agreed to do another call in September.
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