February 21, 2019 Agenda

Moderated By: ekl1773

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one of DebugAcademy's alumni has no college degree, comes from a poorer background, had been working 70hr weeks as a car mechanic, and has had to deal w/stereotypes about black men in interviews (i've attended one with him and seen it first hand)

and he let me know that he just landed a full time job as a Drupal dev! :partyparrot: super excited for him

the person who interviewed him was another DA alumni. they texted me during the interview asking for details / why he wasn't on top of his game. i asked him to give him a chance because he's always showing up to interviews tired from 70hr work weeks

really glad that they're giving him a chance. hoping he can finally stop working twice as hard (due to exhausting job) and improve his living circumstances

there are so many barriers keeping people out of tech, it's nice when people break through

Fantastic story! If you write about it at some point, I’d love to amplify that through things like @drupal twitter etc

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0️ If you’re joining us today, please introduce yourself (and include your pronouns). If you'd like, include your hot beverage :tea:

1️ DrupalCon Seattle! We’re six weeks from DrupalCon Seattle! If you’re attending, please emoji vote :rainbow-sheep: and if you’re speaking, mentoring, or volunteering, pls also vote :dancergunterpenguin:. If you’re not attending, vote :no_entry:

1️ :one: We're going to have a spreadsheet to sign up for booth volunteering, list sessions, and more. @sugaroverflow (she/her) is putting that together—- is there anything you need before we start boosting for sign ups? http://bit.ly/ddi-seattle-volunteering

1️ 2️ We've had a security backchannel in the past, @krismaye has volunteered to organize it this time around, thank you! @sparklingrobots will share info about that- anything else needed or that we can help with?

1️ 3️ Updates for our postcard for this DrupalCon/2019 more generally- @krismaye was thinking about taking this on as well! How can we support you? What updates might we want on the cards?

1️ 4️ Any other DrupalCon-related topics? Are BOFs pinned down? Does the sponsorship doc need any updates? Here's the planning issue for more details: https://www.drupal.org/project/diversity/issues/3029620

2️ DDI Initiatives! @mdrummond has some updates about the Speakers Initiative:

At DrupalCon Nashville, we had Jill Binder join us for some of our discussions. She’s done organizing in the WordPress community to help increase diversity of speakers at Word Camps with a lot of success through workshops. We recently met with Jill to discuss the possibility of working with her to do something similar in the Drupal community, and we wanted to check if there would be interest in an online workshop to help with session development. It would be four hours held over two Saturday mornings—so two hours each morning—and would include guidance as well as breakout sessions to workshop session ideas, pitches and outlines to help people from underrepresented groups to get started. We don’t know for sure if this is something we’ll be able to do or not yet, but if you would be interested, react with a :heavy_plus_sign:!

To be clear, this would be an *online* training, *not* something at DrupalCon or a conference.

Jill's insights last year were amazing.

(won't be going to dcon but would be 100% in support for this were I going)

2️ 1️ Also, <#C76TQUQ2D|ddi-contrib-team> had a good week/weekend at Florida Drupal Camp and @alexdmccabe added a couple final issues before the Gender Field module can go to beta- please see the convo here for all the details and hop in if you like: https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C76TQUQ2D/p1550685924003400

3️ Events & Other Announcements!

:star2: *DrupalCon Seattle* is accepting BOF submissions: (https://twitter.com/drupalcon/status/1088209873442091010)
:star2: *Drupal Camp Asheville* session submissions are open: https://www.drupalasheville.com/submit-session - due April 22, 2019
:star2:*Midcamp* is coming up March 20-23 in Chicago. Sessions and schedule have been posted, and we're super excited about @sugaroverflow (she/her)'s keynote: "Actions Speak Louder than Code". https://www.midcamp.org/2019/topic-proposal/keynote-session-actions-spea...
:star2: Nominations for the *Aaron Winborn award*: (https://www.drupal.org/community/blog/nominations-are-now-open-for-the-2...)
- This annual award recognizes an individual who demonstrates personal integrity, kindness, and above-and-beyond commitment to the Drupal community. It will include a scholarship and stipend to attend DrupalCon and recognition in a plenary session at the event. Nominations are open until March 1.
- Please take some time to think about someone you might want to nominate from an underrepresented community.

Any others folks would like to highlight?

4️ DDI Channels & Resources! More ways to connect and contribute :slightly_smiling_face:

* <#CFHPQ3W86|ddi-careers> -- post jobs, look for jobs, discuss work and career issues in the Drupal-sphere! :moneybag:
* <#C76TQUQ2D|ddi-contrib-team> -- learn how to contribute back to the Drupal project! :building_construction:
* <#C3G1G53CN|ddi-session-help> -- get feedback on sessions or proposals you have for camps and cons! :studio_microphone:
* <#CEANCJFQV|ddi-europe> -- have conversations with the European Drupal community about D&I issues! :flag-eu:
* <#CDTLFPWM9|ddi-media-club> -- discuss books & other media related to d&i! :books: (https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C1BCR7XL6/p1550072909017600)
* <#C89BU2ENA|ddi-chat> -- converse with DDI folks about *all kinds* of topics, from politics to why your view isn't working! :rockcat:

5️ drupal.org now has a Community section. It sounded like there was support here for a DDI section in the community portal, who would be interested in hopping in to get that moving? What content would we like to have there from DDI? https://www.drupal.org/association/blog/introducing-community-group-sect...

6️ Celebrations! We use this agenda item as a way of celebrating the wins - big or small in our community. We'll also use them to showcase things people have done or achieve. :tada:

6️ *Personal check-ins.* :no_entry_sign: Share how you're doing, what you're up to, other thoughts and things.
(These are automatically off the record.)

7️ **Open floor **

If anyone has anything they would like to discuss or ask about - now's your chance. You can also DM me!

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