14:00:59 <spotz[m]> #startmeeting diversity-wg
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14:01:32 <spotz[m]> Bad bot!
14:02:44 <fungi> bad?
14:02:47 <spotz[m]> Oh wow that was slow! I was about to ask you to see if it worked on the OFTC side
14:02:54 <spotz[m]> #topic ROll Call
14:02:57 <fungi> it was instantaneous here
14:03:17 <fungi> so maybe the matrix oftc bridge is laggy today
14:04:25 <spotz[m]> Ok if it stays bad maybe you type the commands but I don't think it'll be too big an issue
14:04:59 <spotz[m]> I'm not sure who all is back from Asia or still traveling about so lets move on and we'll just deal if the logs are out of order
14:05:13 <fungi> i think everyone is back at this point
14:05:29 <spotz[m]> Ildiko is doing a tour of Europe:)
14:05:49 <fungi> oh, yeah but no longer in asia ;)
14:06:48 <spotz[m]> #topic OpenStack Summit Asia review
14:07:03 <spotz[m]> There's a better word then rview but couldn't think of it quick enough:)
14:07:08 <fungi> wfm
14:08:39 <spotz[m]> So a little disappointed from the D&I side as there were no pronoun stickers or gender neutral bathrooms but the second we knew was a challenge. That said they mentioned the CoC both mornings during the keynotes and as far as I'm aware there were no reports on our side or OCP
14:08:51 <spotz[m]> OCP folks really liked out CoC by the way
14:09:15 <spotz[m]> recap! that was the word
14:10:19 <spotz[m]> And I've just put the same request for stickers and a bathroom in the NA planning channel so I don't forget:)
14:10:25 <fungi> thanks, that's a shame about the pronoun stickers... did they lose the request or have trouble sourcing them?
14:10:57 <fungi> i can ask helena and see if she knows
14:11:10 <spotz[m]> Not sure to be honest
14:11:38 <spotz[m]> With everything going on in the planning it might just have gotten left out of a checklist
14:12:43 <fungi> we brought it up multiple times, and i'm pretty sure helena passed it along to the organizers at least
14:13:32 <spotz[m]> Oh I know it got passed along and Allison mentioned they couldn't do the bathroom relabeling due to the facility
14:14:09 <spotz[m]> On a happier note while there weren't many female speakers, there was a nice percentage of female attendees
14:15:33 <spotz[m]> I would say 90% of attendees on site were from APAC region with the remaining 10% global but that's from my visual estimation and not from any real data
14:16:25 <spotz[m]> Oh looking in the backscroll it should be OCP folks really like OUR CoC:)
14:16:42 <fungi> sure, it's hard to know other than via voluntary attendee survey data, but the foundation staff may have some info about that
14:17:16 <fungi> oh, good to know there was some useful community cross-pollination with ocp+openinfra there
14:20:53 <spotz[m]> On the one hand I wish they had started with a bit of joint welcome keynotes, then one from OpenInfra and one from OCP and then the rest on day one OpenInfra and then day 2 the rest OCP. I think they could have gotten a few more talks in from both groups while the 'other' keynotes were going on. I didn't get to sit in for more then 1 talk each day as we we had a 2 hour lab each day and presentations were only in the afternoons.
14:21:53 <spotz[m]> The conference itself was wonderful, organized, and everyone was really welcoming. I'm glad they did so well it had the old school feel of number of folks and the venue was the perfect size
14:24:16 <fungi> splitting them to separate days might have been challenging since it sounded like openinfra had way more sessions than ocp
14:25:10 <spotz[m]> I was just thinking the keynotes so you could fit in a few more talks
14:26:14 <fungi> oh, got it
14:27:22 <spotz[m]> I know folks zoned out a bit when a keynote from the other group was on stage
14:28:29 <spotz[m]> Anyways I'd say a very successful group for the organizers and the community.
14:28:55 <fungi> awesome
14:29:05 <spotz[m]> Do we have anything else for this topic?
14:31:22 <fungi> i didn't
14:31:58 <spotz[m]> #topic OpenInfra Days NA
14:32:37 <spotz[m]> Campus Center and State Museum has gender neutral restrooms and we can point folks to them. I'm tracking down stickers. We'll also have these at the IU Research Technologies table or in swag bags:
14:32:37 * spotz[m] uploaded an image: (1904KiB) < https://matrix.org/oftc/media/v1/media/download/AeddYyPPjLFLe0X_boaMlYJ_2rrO6jqi5Fu7zPuM2LjEtAeLUuiH_4OHgh-PV95IF3ei2-aaHXKsuqfpJ_odOslCeR3hE5rwAG1hdHJpeC5vcmcvR1lqV3hwWlRXUHpSSVZSeWFWa3l5Um9j >
14:32:48 <spotz[m]> Not sure if the picture will come through for you
14:36:50 <fungi> it puts a matrix.org url into an irc message, but i was able to pull it up from that
14:37:03 <spotz[m]> Oh sweet!
14:37:28 <fungi> though it's super slow to load for some reason, so i can only see the top 25% of the image at the moment
14:37:40 <spotz[m]> I'm really excited for the event being at IU, this might be the easiest event from our side of things:)
14:38:07 <fungi> i think our communities should be leveraging university campus resources for more events, personally
14:38:34 <fungi> events like debconf, fosdem, and so on have since ~the beginning
14:38:46 <spotz[m]> I know the Paris group did
14:40:29 <spotz[m]> I think the hard part of us right now is I think with travel budgets the way they are it's easier to send folks to a colocated event vs a smaller stand alone. I don't want to do a direct comparison between 2024 and 2025 though as we found a venue so late folks already had budgets and such done
14:41:52 <spotz[m]> Hopes that reads as intended:)
14:42:49 <fungi> yeah, makes sense
14:44:12 <spotz[m]> And I'm not saying having it at SCaLe every year is the right answer either bu I think we'll figure it out
14:47:09 <fungi> indiana is a lot closer for me that california anyway
14:47:17 <fungi> s/that/than/
14:47:23 <spotz[m]> hehe
14:47:24 <fungi> so i don't mind it at all
14:47:51 <spotz[m]> Anything else on this topic?
14:48:15 <fungi> just a reminder that we have a session
14:49:06 <spotz[m]> Yes we do! I'm hoping we can plug the survey:)
14:49:29 <fungi> and a reminder to myself that i still need to register for the event and book my flights/room
14:50:09 <spotz[m]> Yes please! There's no room blocks but 2 or 3 recommended hotels
14:50:50 <fungi> yeah, i'm planning to get a room in the same hotel as several of the other foundation staff, looks like a fairly short walk to the venue
14:54:08 <spotz[m]> Yep.
14:54:26 <spotz[m]> Ok I'm going to close the meeting, it'll give me 5 minutes before the Board meeting to get a drink:)
14:54:36 <fungi> thanks!
14:54:47 <spotz[m]> Thanks as always for your contributions!
14:54:48 <spotz[m]> #endmeeting