Recap of the Diverse Speaker Training group (#WPDiversity) on September 8, 2021

Attendance: @jillbinder @evarlese @onealtr @tantienhime @devinmaeztri @katiejrichards @yogesh

Starting: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1631120449123100

We talked about:

• Welcoming our new #WPDiversity Translation Facilitator, @devinmaeztri!
  
• Our first Allyship workshop results were excellent
  
• Ways to promote our upcoming workshop: Empower Women Speakers For Your WordPress Event In India, Sept 24 & 25, 2021 (blog post) (registration). There was a lot of great discussion on this.
  
• Upcoming workshop: Diverse Speakers workshop for India on September 18, 2021 @ 7pm India time. @onealtr is coordinating with and training up the facilitator @rahuldsarker
  
• Upcoming event: The first Allyship program cohort has an “Allyship for Event Organizers” Coaching and Accountability SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. meeting in the #community-events Slack on September 16, 2021 @ 5-6pm UTC. Our special guest coach will be @alliennimmons. Other event organizers and contributors are welcome to lurk and also participate in the discussions.
  
• The #diverse-speaker-support channel will be more active soon when we start inviting past workshop participants to it
  
• If you haven’t joined our two channels for our two new programs yet, we’d love for you to join:
  • #community-events is where we are holding Allyship for WP events discussions.
  • #diverse-speaker-support is where we’ll be connecting with Diverse Speaker workshop participants for mentorship on their talks and for networking with WP event organizers to encourage people to speak at events.
    
• We answered a question about our Allyship workshop:
  The Allyship program is new! We run this workshop once a quarter. Our first time was a few weeks ago in August. The next time will be in November. The videos are also up online for people to watch in their own time.
  https://learn.wordpress.org/workshop/creating-a-welcoming-and-diverse-space-part-1/
  https://learn.wordpress.org/workshop/creating-a-welcoming-and-diverse-space-part-2/
  
  [Edit: Anyone who has watched the workshops live with us or on their own time are welcome to the Coaching and Accountability Slack chat in the #community-events channel on September 16 @ 5-6pm UTC.]

Ending: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1631124101181900

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