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 <[email protected]> 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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > https://www.avg.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
