14:13:31 <spotz[m]> #startmeeting diversity_wg
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14:13:48 <spotz[m]> #chair fungi
14:13:48 <opendevmeet> Current chairs: fungi spotz[m]
14:14:22 <spotz[m]> #topic Summit recap
14:15:16 <spotz[m]> Overall I think Summit went well,  Allison mentioned forgetting to mention the new CoC during the keynotes as she had attended but she did mention the survey and our meeting
14:15:28 <spotz[m]> attended=intended
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14:15:55 <spotz[m]> Ha we'll see how the ability to edit in Element affects the log:)
14:16:46 <spotz[m]> I was pleased with the number of folks we had at Speed Mentoring. I'd say 95% of the folks were there to be mentored or to mentor with just a few extra there for pancakes and if needed
14:18:58 <fungi> sounded like we again had more mentors than mentees?
14:19:39 <spotz[m]> Nope more mentees then mentors:) We had about 38 people I'd say 15ish mentors and the rest mentees
14:19:57 <fungi> oh, excellent. so 2-3 mentees per mentor
14:20:20 <fungi> er, i misread. so a little over 1 mentee per mentor
14:20:24 <spotz[m]> The original numbers I had from Jimmy were all mentors but once I kept getting an updated spreadsheet I wasn't seeing that
14:20:45 <fungi> cool, that explains my earlier misunderstanding
14:21:29 <spotz[m]> I think there were some tables that were more 1:1 but others were 1:2-3, depended on the topic
14:22:02 <fungi> any feel for what the mentees were mostly interested in? career development? code contribution? other activities?
14:22:37 <spotz[m]> Career was probably the most popular, then tech and community where close to each other
14:22:37 <fungi> i can't remember if we survey them in the sign-up form
14:22:51 <fungi> i guess we must
14:23:39 <spotz[m]> We do and originally I had no career mentors so put out a request for folks to swap and they did
14:24:11 <fungi> oh that's awesome
14:24:18 <spotz[m]> That's one of the main reasons to ask, so we know we have mentors in place
14:24:32 <fungi> makes sense
14:26:20 <spotz[m]> The way it's been going and the room setups it's been easier to have a multiple mentors at the table with the mentees and no one swapping until towards the end if someone wants to try something new
14:29:10 <spotz[m]> The diversity lunch I felt had organizational issues, there wasn't really anyone there to run it. I'd asked a few times if there was anything they needed our help with and was told no but I still felt the need to get up and thank our sponsor
14:30:44 <fungi> yeah, that was... confusing
14:31:16 <fungi> according to allison, it turns out that bloomberg (who volunteered to sponsor and set up the event) didn't know we had a diversity and inclusion working group
14:31:49 <spotz[m]> bangs head on desk
14:34:02 <spotz[m]> I'm not sure how we can promote ourselves more. I send emails to every email list, I offered our help as we didn't have a direct contact name
14:37:28 <fungi> yeah, it's possible aprice[m] has suggestions on how to better get sponsors on the same page as (and in contact with) the community next time
14:39:46 <spotz[m]> In the past there's generally been someone from the sponsor in the group or like when we changed to Diversity Lunch from Women of OpenStack lunch we had a go between from the Foundation talking to Red Hat.
14:41:08 <fungi> yep. in particular, if bloomberg as an org is interested in helping with the diversity of our communities then it would be great for someone there to get involved in the wg
14:42:59 <spotz[m]> Only person I know for sure from Bloomberg is Chris Morgan and he wasn't at Summit that I saw
14:44:30 <spotz[m]> I think every other initiative or ask we had went well that I saw
14:50:32 <fungi> yes, all in all i think we got what we wanted
14:50:57 <fungi> any idea what sort of response volume we're looking at for the updated survey so far?
14:51:36 <spotz[m]> I was actually looking for that earlier hang on
14:52:40 <fungi> i set a personal goal for this quarter of trying to ramp up diversity survey response volume, but knowing where we're starting from would be helpful
14:52:41 <spotz[m]> I had a link looking
14:53:01 <spotz[m]> 4
14:53:22 <fungi> that's... one more than we had when we checked during summit week i guess
14:53:33 <fungi> unless i'm misremembering
14:53:55 <spotz[m]> Yeah I think so. We'll need to keep pushing it publicly
14:57:08 <spotz[m]> You have anything else? I think we hit on everything
14:57:33 <fungi> nope, guess we have a couple of minutes to prepare for the tc call
14:57:58 <spotz[m]> That's later I have 2 meetings before that:)
14:58:07 <spotz[m]> #endmeeting