05:00:36 #startmeeting Diversity_Working_Group_2 05:00:37 Meeting started Thu Jul 16 05:00:36 2015 UTC and is due to finish in 60 minutes. The chair is rolandchan. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 05:00:38 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic #startvote. 05:00:40 The meeting name has been set to 'diversity_working_group_2' 05:00:54 hello shane congrats on the BoD seat! 05:01:12 hello 05:01:14 thank you 05:01:30 First up. Lets have a rollcall. Can people state their real names and locations/timezones? 05:01:38 Roland Chan, AEST, Aptira. 05:01:39 this is tristan btw - former board sitter :-) 05:01:54 oh, and you're affiliation if you have one :) 05:02:03 Tristan Goode - Sydney Australia UTC+10 05:02:13 Tristan Goode - Sydney Australia UTC+10 Aptira 05:02:34 James Fleet Washington DC EST 05:02:48 Shane Wang - Shanghai China UTC+8 05:03:25 OK. That looks like everyone. 05:04:16 The purpose of this meeting is to ensure that we include an APAC friendly meeting slot to discuss the Diversity Working Group progress 05:04:40 Does everyone have a link to the minutes of the previous meeting? 05:04:54 and the agenda for this one? 05:05:02 * ozstacker looks 05:05:09 https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Diversity#Agenda 05:05:10 https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/OpenStackDiversity.1? and https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/OpenStackDiversity.2? 05:05:28 Yep. the first etherpad is the minutes from the last meeting 05:05:32 ta 05:05:34 the agenda is basically the same. 05:05:56 I'm not taking notes in real time, I'm not that fast :) 05:06:15 OK, so first item is discussion on the working group charter. 05:06:36 ok 05:06:42 ok 05:06:47 ok 05:07:33 the last meeting seems to have concluded that the top diversity focus areas are: gender, geograph and culture. And then religion, age, disability other areas of interest. 05:08:11 Yes that looks right 05:08:20 totally agree 05:08:47 That was the hot topic 05:08:50 I don't mind that being a priority list, I'm not sure we should be particularly limiting in the charter itself. 05:10:08 the existing charter has a long list of ways people differ. 05:10:46 perhaps it's a bit unwieldly, but in the absence of a counter-proposal that is inclusive but brief, I'm happy to accept the charter as written. 05:11:05 Yes I think that's a great list, and would be happy to accept it as written. 05:12:03 me too 05:12:15 would be happy to accept it as written 05:12:37 I don't think there's any call for votes at this stage. Shall we move on? 05:13:21 yes 05:13:34 yes 05:13:57 OK. Second item was an update from Kavit on the Diversity Policy. Kavit is on leave, returning Monday. 05:14:11 Unofortunately, I don't have an update to provide on his behalf. 05:14:23 ok no worries. 05:14:46 leave it to the next meeting:) 05:14:51 Similarly the next item was on the Ambassador program, from Niki. 05:15:18 so I think we'll have to move on from that as well. 05:15:53 lastly, we had the summit demographic data 05:16:01 We probably just need to engage the ambassadors there and make them aware of these meeting times. 05:16:04 are we going to consider to change ambassador? 05:16:24 I can alert the Ambassador list 05:16:25 sorry, what is the Ambassador program? 05:16:45 https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Community/AmbassadorProgram 05:16:56 @ozstacker, thank you 05:17:26 There's a good geographical spread, so we should be able to get involvement in all the diversity meetings. 05:17:33 yes 05:17:53 I can ping the ambassador list 05:18:11 ozstacker takes an action 05:18:12 :) 05:19:28 So, looking at the demographic data presented at the last meeting... 05:20:20 The key points for me is that Euro and APAC attendances seem to site ~10% for out-of-region summits. 05:20:45 and perhaps altanta wasn't a very popular destination ;) 05:21:49 Yeah I didn't go to that one :-) 05:22:00 I did go 05:22:13 but it was a long trip from China 05:22:26 Indeed. 05:22:32 longer than west coast 05:23:37 India, China, Japan seem to be strongly represented in out of region attendances. 05:24:00 I think this is a good point, although having actual numbers rather than rankings would make me more certain. 05:25:22 Yes. Data. 05:25:24 any other comments on the summit data or the travel program information presented? 05:25:36 Na 05:26:02 OK. lastly the Women of OpenStack program data. 05:26:39 there's a good upward trend there. 05:27:02 :) 05:27:05 noting that there was a lot of activity at Vancouver, it will be interesting to see what happens in Tokyo. 05:27:20 Yes. It's been a well supported and publicised program. 05:28:12 I guess our goal is to see other programs supported as well. 05:28:21 I think the intern sponsorship program is important, in the sense that concrete actions are taken. 05:29:09 I think action that directly affects people are something that a broader diversity program will have to do 05:30:03 Any other business? I have one item. 05:30:19 nothing from me 05:30:51 no from me 05:30:57 OK. 05:31:04 Although I dont know why we dont have these meeting sin the meeting channels 05:31:16 I don't know either. 05:31:35 There's a bunch of folks lurking there and we could encorage participation just by being there? 05:32:00 That's not my experience, but maybe. 05:32:03 obviously attendance is a bit down on the previous meeting. 05:32:15 Then for other general discussion, the openstack-community channel is quite idle. 05:32:54 Other than pushing the diversity messages in the mailling list, what else can be done to encourage attendance from this side of the world. 05:33:38 Make it a highlight topic at the upcoming summit. 05:33:49 yes agree 05:33:55 suggest to the ambassadors that the diversity program should become part of their message. 05:34:10 I'm drafting the email to them right now. 05:34:23 cool. 05:34:46 anything else? 05:34:52 nope 05:34:57 diversity mtg should have more attendees 05:35:00 no 05:35:38 is this meeting log public? 05:35:39 OK. 05:35:44 nope 05:35:44 yup 05:35:47 yes 05:35:51 ok 05:35:57 it will be when I tell the bot to end the meeting. 05:36:11 OK. Lets close then. 05:36:20 Thanks everyone! 05:36:25 #endmeeting