| ildikov | Are we having a meeting today? | 14:01 |
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| fungi | it's on my calendar | 14:02 |
| spotz[m] | Yep was outsude with Hootie sorry | 14:04 |
| spotz[m] | #startmeeting diversity_wg | 14:05 |
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| spotz[m] | #topic roll call | 14:05 |
| spotz[m] | o/ | 14:05 |
| fungi | ahoy! | 14:06 |
| spotz[m] | Figured I'd try to be more formal/organized:) | 14:07 |
| ildikov | o/ | 14:08 |
| spotz[m] | #topic Upcoming events and if there's anything we can add to them | 14:08 |
| spotz[m] | I know CNCF is running the China event so we don't have much influence there plus it's next week. I think we can assume they will follow their trend of gender stickers, and maybe a lunch | 14:09 |
| spotz[m] | Ildiko were you attending? I know Fungi isn't and I didn't get travel approved so I'll be attending the board meeting remotely as much as I can | 14:10 |
| ildikov | I will be attending, yes | 14:11 |
| spotz[m] | Just for curiousities sake can you report back? | 14:12 |
| fungi | i am not travelling this time | 14:12 |
| spotz[m] | I said that:) | 14:12 |
| ildikov | You mean on the things they do for inclusivity? | 14:12 |
| spotz[m] | Yeah | 14:13 |
| ildikov | I will do my best to observe and take note of relevant things | 14:13 |
| fungi | thanks ildikov! | 14:13 |
| spotz[m] | Thanks. I'm assuming it'll be the normal CNCF stuff they do but curious | 14:14 |
| ildikov | I assume the event will mostly be run as standard practice, but I'll know more when on site | 14:14 |
| spotz[m] | As far as NA, unless a meal sponsor contacts us we'll be doing lunch offsite. We can definitely look into gender stickers (and there maybe be some left over from another event?) We're hoping for 150 attendees in total so we don't need a huge number and we can get them off Amazon for 7.99 if we don't have any. Not sure what we'll do with 800 though | 14:17 |
| spotz[m] | We can get less for more $ so doesn't make sense | 14:18 |
| spotz[m] | We could maybe put a sign up on one of the tables for folks to gather like we did back in the WoO days but not sure how many folks would utilize it | 14:19 |
| ildikov | Yeah, mass production is cheaper... Not sure if other folks involved in organizing the event might work on other events too to share the stickers? | 14:20 |
| spotz[m] | I could take some or to be honest if they shipped to here I'd only take what we need or others wanted vs 800 | 14:21 |
| ildikov | +1 | 14:22 |
| ildikov | If space allows, then putting up a sign is cheap. If no one utilizes it, then it's a data point to consider for the next event. | 14:22 |
| spotz[m] | Sounds good I'll add it to the event list | 14:23 |
| ildikov | thank you! | 14:24 |
| spotz[m] | Do we have any other events? Anything that someone is going to and we could send stickers with? | 14:24 |
| ildikov | The only event I have on my list for this year besides OpenInfra Summit Asia is OSS EU | 14:25 |
| spotz[m] | Which we're not organizing and LF so we'll leave it in their hands:) | 14:27 |
| ildikov | +1 | 14:27 |
| ildikov | there'll be OpenInfra tracks at a couple of events in Europe and there's an OpenInfra Day in Kenya otherwise | 14:28 |
| ildikov | that I can see on our website | 14:28 |
| spotz[m] | We should see about putting aside 10-20$ for OpenInfra events if they want stickers | 14:32 |
| fungi | my proposal for ato didn't get accepted, and i have a schedule conflict for oid-na so won't be there either | 14:35 |
| ildikov | I'm not sure what our logistics currently are when it comes to those events | 14:35 |
| spotz[m] | ATO has also changed their format and Open Source booths:( | 14:36 |
| ildikov | fungi: sadness, I'm sorry about your proposal not making it :( | 14:36 |
| ildikov | spotz[m]: how did they change them? | 14:36 |
| ildikov | I mean what are the changes on high level? | 14:37 |
| spotz[m] | The booths? They're now round cocktail tables in a room | 14:37 |
| ildikov | oh, that sounds odd | 14:37 |
| spotz[m] | They did it last year too, If you weren't near the entrance from what I hear you didn't get much traffic | 14:38 |
| ildikov | I didn't get the chance to attend, but that doesn't sounds great :( | 14:39 |
| spotz[m] | I have never been, so just reported feedback | 14:39 |
| fungi | i dunno. last year the projects/foundations were still all tables lined up in the hallway outside the rooms for the community track | 14:42 |
| ildikov | I attended it a few years ago, it was a good event | 14:42 |
| spotz[m] | Hrm interesting | 14:43 |
| fungi | but yes, those tables were nowhere near the entrance | 14:43 |
| spotz[m] | Were they normal tables? | 14:43 |
| fungi | there was a lot of traffic in that hallway but attendees were mostly in a hurry getting from one room to another | 14:43 |
| ildikov | I remember tables scattered around the venue and I think there were many areas with good traffic, but I'm sure not all locations were created fully equal on that regard | 14:43 |
| fungi | yes, if by normal you mean rectangular | 14:43 |
| spotz[m] | Weird, Fedora and CentOS had a cocktail table in a room | 14:44 |
| spotz[m] | Like I said never been just repeating what I was told | 14:44 |
| fungi | it's possible i never went into that room, but like freebsd and others were in the hallway | 14:44 |
| fungi | turning left from the main entrance down the ground floor hallway there, past where the lunch pickup spot was, outside the rooms for like the osi sessions and stuff | 14:45 |
| fungi | that hallways was lined both sides with tables for foundations and community projects | 14:45 |
| spotz[m] | Very interesting | 14:46 |
| spotz[m] | Anyways anything else for events? Or any other topics? | 14:47 |
| fungi | same rooms where the community leadership summit were held the day prior | 14:47 |
| fungi | i didn't have any topics | 14:48 |
| spotz[m] | And I think Community Leadership Summit is gone this year | 14:49 |
| ildikov | oh, they're not organizing it at all? | 14:50 |
| fungi | it's still on the schedule but it's not a separate day any more | 14:50 |
| spotz[m] | I know they went to like one day of talks | 14:50 |
| fungi | now it overlaps with day 1 of the main conference | 14:50 |
| ildikov | ah, that still sounds unfortunate | 14:51 |
| spotz[m] | And that's the one part I always wanted to attend | 14:51 |
| ildikov | I was more excited for the Community Leadership Summit than the main conference the year I attended | 14:51 |
| fungi | yeah, me too | 14:51 |
| ildikov | I really liked how people put together the schedule in the morning and we had the opportunity to chat about things people felt most important to hash out that day | 14:52 |
| ildikov | and especially how fast everything is moving these days, proposing talks for conferences a half year or more into the future is just getting more and more challenging | 14:53 |
| fungi | you would have loved classic unconferences like barcamp in that case | 14:53 |
| fungi | some of our self-service ptg scheduling was inspired by those | 14:53 |
| ildikov | yeah, I remember Rick Turoczy telling me about those, sounded like a great event | 14:53 |
| spotz[m] | And then getting travel approvals which are usually close to event makes it hard. But you need the talks accepted early to attract registrations | 14:54 |
| fungi | we had a fairly active barcamp scene in the raleigh area back in the early 2000s | 14:54 |
| ildikov | oh, PTG, I still need to dig up the ideas I got to inspire people getting together just for fun | 14:54 |
| ildikov | spotz[m]: a broken system, but I'm unsure of how to improve it | 14:55 |
| ildikov | fungi: the good old days ;) | 14:55 |
| spotz[m] | Yeah it's a no-win for organizers | 14:55 |
| ildikov | yeah :( | 14:56 |
| spotz[m] | Ok 3 minutes, I'm going to end the log | 14:57 |
| spotz[m] | #endmeeting | 14:57 |
| opendevmeet | Meeting ended Tue Sep 1 14:57:31 2026 UTC. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot . (v 0.1.4) | 14:57 |
| opendevmeet | Minutes: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/diversity_wg/2026/diversity_wg.2026-09-01-14.05.html | 14:57 |
| opendevmeet | Minutes (text): https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/diversity_wg/2026/diversity_wg.2026-09-01-14.05.txt | 14:57 |
| opendevmeet | Log: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/diversity_wg/2026/diversity_wg.2026-09-01-14.05.log.html | 14:57 |
| fungi | thanks spotz[m]! | 14:57 |
| spotz[m] | Thank you both! | 14:58 |
| ildikov | thank's y'all! | 14:58 |
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