2023-10-20 DEIB Working Group Meeting

[CoachBirgit]

Welcome everyone to the fortnightly meeting of the DEIB working group, a dedicated collective within the WordPress community focused on championing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging as we pave the way toward establishing an official team.

For those new or needing a refresher, here's a link to the DEIB proposal.

When

October 20, 2023 – 1 pm (UTC)

Where

At #DEIB-working-group channel on Slack

Note: @TantienHime will run the meeting on Friday, October 20th. @CoachBirgit is co-leading WordCamp Germany, which is happening from October 19th to 21st, and can't facilitate the meeting that day.

Agenda

Member Introductions

• Please share:
  • Your name, your WordPress.org profile name and where are you from
  • Your involvement with WordPress.
  • Icebreaker question: What character trait are you thankful that you possess?

Still Volunteers needed for Community Summit Notes

During the last three meetings, the participants agreed upon to extract the actionable items of the topics discussed during the Community Summit 2023. Link to the raw notes.

Action item: Create To-Do cards for each item or item group to manage the tasks on our GitHub project board. For this labor-intensive task are volunteers needed. Who is interested and has capacity? Maybe we can schedule a co-contributing video call to collaborate on that task.

The inital task card was already created by @kirstyburgoine: Extract Actionable Items from Community Summit 2023 Notes

Please, let's discuss how we can tackle the labor-intensive tasks sustainably.

Open GitHub tasks

Volunteers welcome to work on those tickets. It would be nice if it can be finished by the end of the month, October 2023.

• Update the README.md
• Create a CONTRIBUTING.md file and add it to the repo
• Add a code_of_conduct.md file to the repo.
• Extract Actionable Items from Community Summit 2023 Notes

Open Floor Discussion on DEIB within WordPress

• What DEIB successes/challenges have you observed in WordPress since the last meeting? Anything this group can do?

Ideas or suggestions

Anything else? Please leave a comment to add to the meeting.

[TantienHime]

Not sure on what is the Standard Operating Procedure, but to close the loop, the meeting was held here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C05ND1KPW0Y/p1697806936769019