On 5 May 2016, at 10:31, Chris Calloway 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
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Chris,
Thank you for sharing what worked for you and PyData Carolinas. Your
thoughtfulness, genuine interest, and action are a good model of what
does work.
Your experience would make a helpful blog post, lightning talk at PyCon,
SciPy, or a regional conference. Take care and thank you!
Warmly,
Carol
Carol Willing
Research Software Engineer, Project Jupyter @ Cal Poly
Director, Python Software Foundation
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