Recap of the Diverse Speaker Training group (#WPDiversity) AMER/EMEA on October 12, 2022

Attending: @jillbinder, @juliarosia, @katiejrichards, @kcrockett, @leogopal, @onealtr, @santanainniss, @sc0ttkclark, @sippis, @volkswagenchick

Facilitator: @juliarosia

Start: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1664384439597139

Summary

1 Attendance and check-ins (everyone)
2 First time here
3 Comments, questions, ideas (anyone)

• We talked about where to put an “Upcoming Events” box on our handbook page

4 Workshops – Inclusion (@jillbinder)

• “Organizing Diverse & Inclusive WordPress Events” interactive watch party tomorrow. Got volunteers to help out.

5 Follow-up 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/. chat – Inclusion (@jillbinder)

• We are going to have a follow-up Slack chat to this workshop on Thursday, November 17th. Trying a different format: “bring successes, challenges, questions.”
  
• Talked about who should be invited to the Slack chats. Experiment: most recent workshop participants + past slack chat participants.
  
• @katiejrichards suggested we reach out to workshop participants to help them with their journey beyond our Slack chat reminders

6 Workshops – Speaker (@jillbinder)

• October 29, 2022 @ 10am–6pm CST: WordPress #WPDiversity Speaker Workshop for Women Voices in Latin America – this is an in-person event for women in San Jose, Costa Rica that is sold out with a waitlist!
  
• Probably Wednesday, December 7: Our next Diverse Speaker workshop.
  
• Asked who might be interested in learning to facilitate these workshops

7 APAC WPDiversity Network Building (@onealtr)

• @onealtr shared upcoming WP Asia events
  
• We talked about upcoming date and time changes for APAC meetings

8 Diverse Speaker Support channel (@kcrockett, @juliarosia, @jillbinder)

We discussed the automated introduction message when people join the channel

9 Marketing (@santanainniss)

• @santanainniss shared marketing results for promoting:
  – Tomorrow’s Inclusion workshop
  – Request to amplify today’s posts:
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn

• We discussed:
  
  • Posts promoting the benefits of WP Diversity (e.g. xyz % of people felt more prepared to speak after the training)
    
  • Share statements like: how do we define diversity? Elements from the trainings etc.

10 Daylight savings — changing the meeting time in November (@jillbinder)

• Starting on November 6th, 2022 and going until March 13, 2023, when daylight savings time ends, we are going to move our meeting to 6pm UTC.
  
• We discussed how to write this on the Make WordPress Community sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme..

11 Other Updates + Next meeting facilitator (anyone)

• @jillbinder is starting to work on a (working title) “So you wanna run a Speaker workshop?” page for the Community Handbook.
  

End: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1664387534721449

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