The thing that originally swung it for PyCon was grabbing a chunk of sponsor money and allocating it specifically to increase women's attendance at the conference. Word got out, and women started to realise their attendance was actively sought. S
Steve Holden On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Chris Calloway <c...@unc.edu> wrote: > On 5/4/16 4:12 PM, Don Sheu wrote: > >> I'm in the process of instituting guidelines for handling Code of >> Conduct reports with my group in Seattle, PuPPy. First step is >> recruiting a diverse committee. Unfortunately, currently our organizing >> team is overwhelmingly male. Last thing I want is for a Code of Conduct >> procedure where a member who's not white or male is facing a process run >> entirely by white males. >> > > Don, > > The hardest part of diversity is attempting to diversify an already > non-diverse group. I searched for a long time for how to do this. Finally, > after watching the Code: Debugging the Gender Gap documentary, I got a > clue, applied it, and it worked. The secret is pro-action. You must go out > and specifically and specially invite people individually, and invite them > not just to participate, but to lead. I did this for the PyData Carolinas > conference coming up this fall and it worked so well that the majority of > people on our board of organizers are female and twenty percent are > non-white: > > http://pydata.org/carolinas2016/about/organizers/ > > I went to PyLadies and other groups and asked for their help. They > responded with several highly qualified Python data scientists. I didn't > just ask for volunteers. I approached them each individually, told them > each why their qualifications are needed, and invited them to come take the > reigns of various conference committees. You can get diversity. You just > have to work at it and not wait for it to come to you. You must reach out > and reach out specifically to individuals, recruiting each with an offer of > leadership. > > -- > Sincerely, > > Chris Calloway, Applications Analyst > UNC Renaissance Computing Institute > 100 Europa Drive, Suite 540, Chapel Hill, NC 27517 > (919) 599-3530 > > _______________________________________________ > PSF-Community mailing list > PSF-Community@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-community >
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