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Given the original email and this recent first meeting announcement both encourage participation by joining or being on the Foundation Mailing List, someone should probably post this thread to that list at some stage.

CheersTristan


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From: Barrett, Carol L <carol.l.barrett at intel.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 10:31 am
Subject: Re: [openstack-community] [Foundation Board] [OpenStack] OpenStack Diversity Working Group - Meeting Information
To: Roland Chan <roland at aptira.com>
Cc:  <foundation-board at lists.openstack.org>, OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>,  <openstack at lists.openstack.org>, Greenberg, Suzy M <suzy.m.greenberg at intel.com>,  <community at lists.openstack.org>


                     

Roland – Thanks for your comments. Hope you can join us to help move this effort forward.    

Carol    

     

From: Roland Chan [mailto:roland at aptira.com] 
 Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 4:44 PM
 To: Barrett, Carol L
 Cc: Greenberg, Suzy M; foundation-board at lists.openstack.org; openstack at lists.openstack.org; OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions); community at lists.openstack.org
 Subject: Re: [Foundation Board] [OpenStack] OpenStack Diversity Working Group - Meeting Information    

     

I'd say meeting time accessibility is not an interest, it's a non-negotiable requirement. Unconscious bias creates exclusion and all that.    

This group must lead by example, and it would be sad for the first step to be a misstep.    

Roland
              

On 17/06/2015 8:36 AM, "Barrett, Carol L" <carol.l.barrett at intel.com> wrote:                  

The initial meeting for this work group will be: Friday,  June 19, 2015 at 18:00 UTC, on IRC: #openstack-meeting       

        

The Agenda is:       

·         Introductions       

·         Mission Discussion and definition of Diversity       

·         Discuss proposal to engage a Consultant/Coach to assist this work group        

·         Review proposed work plan, gather feedback, and owners       

·         Next Steps       

o   Meeting Frequency       

o   Interest/Need for alternating times to make the meetings globally accessible       

        

Moving forward we’ll use the foundation at lists.openstack.org mail list for work group discussions and meeting communications.        

        

Thanks       

Carol       

        

                         

From: Sousou, Imad [mailto:imad.sousou at intel.com] 
 Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 1:28 PM
 To: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org; community-owner at lists.openstack.org; openstack at lists.openstack.org
 Subject: [openstack-dev] OpenStack Diversity Working Group                      

        

Stackers – We’re happy to announce the creation of a Diversity Working Group. The genesis for this work group was a discussion at the May meeting of the OpenStack Board of Directors ahead of the Vancouver Summit.       

        

The Board is committed to fostering an inclusive and welcoming place for all people to collaborate to drive innovation and design cutting-edge data center capabilities, while finding the best answers to our most pressing challenges. To achieve this, the Board formed this Work Group to determine what actions are required to fulfill this commitment. Three Board members volunteered to work with community members in this Work Group and bring updates/requests to the Board for discussion and action on a regular basis, starting with the July meeting.       

        

If you’re interested in joining this effort, please:       

·         Join the Foundation mail list to participate in discussions and shape the direction:  click here        

·         Visit the wiki page for this work group to learn more about the charter:  click here       

·         Plan to join the kick-off IRC meeting and let us know what day/times work for you by accessing the Doodle here: click here       

        

We will send out the results of the Doodle to the mail list and look forward to working with you to foster a strong and diverse community.       

        

Thanks       

Imad Sousou (Intel), Egle Sigler (Rackspace), Kavit Munshi (Aptira)        

        

        

        

        

        

        

                 


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