14:00:00 <nasirhm> #startmeeting Fedora Diversity & Inclusion Team (2020-09-24) 14:00:00 <zodbot> Meeting started Thu Sep 24 14:00:00 2020 UTC. 14:00:00 <zodbot> This meeting is logged and archived in a public location. 14:00:00 <zodbot> The chair is nasirhm. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 14:00:00 <zodbot> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 14:00:00 <zodbot> The meeting name has been set to 'fedora_diversity_&_inclusion_team_(2020-09-24)' 14:00:21 <nasirhm> #meetingname diversity 14:00:21 <zodbot> The meeting name has been set to 'diversity' 14:00:27 <nasirhm> #nick di-team 14:00:54 <nasirhm> #chair siddharthvipul riecatnor ramyaparimi[m] 14:00:54 <zodbot> Current chairs: nasirhm ramyaparimi[m] riecatnor siddharthvipul 14:01:12 <nasirhm> #topic Agenda 14:01:13 <nasirhm> #info (1) Roll call / introductions 14:01:15 <nasirhm> #info (2) Announcements 14:01:18 <tg-fed-di1> <jwflory> I am here for a bit :) My plane is boarding now though! 14:01:23 <nasirhm> #info (3) Action items from last meeting 14:01:38 <nasirhm> Best of Luck for the journey @jwflory ^^, Travel safe 14:01:42 <nasirhm> #info (4) Tickets 14:01:58 <nasirhm> #info (5) Open floor 14:02:20 <nasirhm> #topic Roll call / introductions 14:02:25 <nasirhm> .hello2 14:02:26 <zodbot> nasirhm: nasirhm 'Nasir Hussain' <nasirhussainm14@gmail.com> 14:02:52 <tg-fed-di1> <riecatnor> Hi I am here! 14:03:06 <nasirhm> .hello riecatnor 14:03:07 <zodbot> nasirhm: riecatnor 'None' <mnordin@redhat.com> 14:03:07 <nasirhm> :) 14:03:57 <rparimi[m]> hello riecatnor 14:05:00 * siddharthvipul present 14:05:27 <nasirhm> Awesome, let's move on to Announcements 14:06:33 <nasirhm> #topic Announcements 14:06:35 <nasirhm> #help === "Docs: Our docs need love! Consider taking on a docs issue to help the team." === 14:06:42 <nasirhm> #link https://pagure.io/fedora-diversity/issues?status=Open&tags=type+-+docs 14:06:46 <nasirhm> #info At Nest, jwf led a session on how to edit the D&I Team docs, both from the Pagure web interface and from the command-line. A recording is coming. If you feel comfortable editing our docs, try our your new skills! We have numerous issues open to help improve our docs. 14:06:57 <nasirhm> rparimi++ for working on the docs :) 14:07:03 <nasirhm> #info === "Ambassadors Revamp Volunteer Kick-Off" === 14:07:19 <nasirhm> #link https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/ambassadors-revamp-volunteer-kick-off/ 14:07:29 <nasirhm> #info The Temporary Task Force on the Ambassadors Revamp meets today at 16:00 UTC in a Google Meet chat room. Anyone interested in participating with the revamp is welcome to join this first meeting for the new effort. It will be recorded and shared later too if you cannot attend in person. Details in link. 14:07:39 <rparimi[m]> thank you nasir_hm[m] 14:07:44 <nasirhm> @riecatnor are we having a meeting today for the revamp ? 14:08:32 <tg-fed-di1> <riecatnor> Not today 14:08:36 <tg-fed-di1> <riecatnor> Next week most likely 14:08:44 <tg-fed-di1> <bt0dotninja> Ufff 14:08:56 <nasirhm> Thanks 14:08:57 <nasirhm> #undo 14:08:57 <zodbot> Removing item from minutes: INFO by nasirhm at 14:07:29 : The Temporary Task Force on the Ambassadors Revamp meets today at 16:00 UTC in a Google Meet chat room. Anyone interested in participating with the revamp is welcome to join this first meeting for the new effort. It will be recorded and shared later too if you cannot attend in person. Details in link. 14:09:10 <nasirhm> #undo 14:09:10 <zodbot> Removing item from minutes: <MeetBot.items.Link object at 0x7fcccc724ed0> 14:09:11 <nasirhm> #undo 14:09:11 <zodbot> Removing item from minutes: INFO by nasirhm at 14:07:03 : === "Ambassadors Revamp Volunteer Kick-Off" === 14:09:27 <nasirhm> #info === "Test Days: Internationalization (i18n) features for Fedora 33" === 14:09:40 <nasirhm> #link https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/test-days-internationalization-i18n-features-for-fedora-33/ 14:09:45 <nasirhm> #info The Fedora QA team is launching a series of Test Days this week for internationalization features of Fedora. Now is a great time to try using Fedora in non-English languages and share feedback with the QA team. Details in link. 14:10:08 <siddharthvipul> this test day was in start of this month 14:10:50 <nasirhm> Oops, My bad, i'm actually using jwf's etherpad doc for the meeting. It seems a bit outdated on the announcements :D 14:11:12 <nasirhm> Let's move to Action Items then 14:11:14 <nasirhm> #topic Action items from last meeting 14:11:26 <nasirhm> #link https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-diversity/2020-08-27/diversity.2020-08-27-14.00.html 14:11:32 <nasirhm> #info How This Works: We review past #action items from the last meeting. For each task, we get a quick update on status and move forward. 14:11:44 <nasirhm> #info === [INCOMPLETE] "jwf: Ping Freenode staff about webchat clients getting auto-voice in a channel" === 14:11:46 <nasirhm> #action jwf Ping Freenode staff about webchat clients getting auto-voice in a channel 14:11:55 <nasirhm> #info === [COMPLETE] "jwf: Ping GNOMEies in their Rocket.chat to confirm the email / schedule the call" === 14:12:00 <nasirhm> #link https://doodle.com/poll/p8qszwwz4kpswx6v 14:12:03 <nasirhm> #info Email was sent to GNOME team. A few Fedora folks filled it but we are waiting for a few folks from GNOME. Meeting will be some time next week. 14:12:27 <nasirhm> #info === [COMPLETE] "jwf: Open new ticket about FWD survey questions based on Ashlyn's mailing list post" === 14:12:28 <nasirhm> #link https://pagure.io/fedora-diversity/issue/156 14:12:47 <nasirhm> jwf++ for completing action items ^^ 14:12:48 <nasirhm> #info === [COMPLETE] "riecatnor: Follow up in forthcoming FWD survey ticket with idea about question for topics" === 14:12:51 <nasirhm> #link https://pagure.io/fedora-diversity/issue/156#comment-674189 14:13:07 <nasirhm> .thank riecatnor 14:13:07 <zodbot> nasirhm thinks riecatnor is awesome and is happy they are helping! (Please also type riecatnor++ since that is what gives them a cookie) 14:13:27 <tg-fed-di1> <jwflory> Oops those action items are dated! 14:13:36 <tg-fed-di1> <jwflory> I think we covered those last time :) 14:13:41 <nasirhm> #info === [di-team] "Review Ashlyn's question draft (https://hackmd.io/ovVujqvaS5WnYcGWx9BNYQ) and share feedback in forthcoming ticket by next meeting in September" === 14:13:45 <tg-fed-di1> <jwflory> I didn't get a chance to update the Etherpad for this week's meeting 14:13:50 <nasirhm> <tg-fed-di1 "<jwflory> Oops those action item"> Yep they're outdated :D 14:14:11 <tg-fed-di1> <jwflory> OK. Then it is probably OK to skip :) 14:14:29 <nasirhm> In the ticket, I see the draft was approved and it was requested to migrate to limesurvey 14:14:42 <nasirhm> siddharthvipul: would you like to provide an update here ? 14:15:02 <siddharthvipul> nasirhm, i guess etherpad needs an update ;) 14:15:07 <nasirhm> <tg-fed-di1 "<jwflory> OK. Then it is probabl"> Adding incomplete ones to keep track of them later on :) 14:15:19 <siddharthvipul> limesurvey link was already provided for final +! 14:15:22 <siddharthvipul> +1* 14:15:33 <siddharthvipul> if you think it's ready to send, please share the link with wider community 14:15:35 <nasirhm> siddharthvipul: Indeed 14:16:07 <siddharthvipul> I requested that before sending, please let me know so that I can remove the older (testing) data 14:16:30 <nasirhm> siddharthvipul: Can you kindly share the limesurvey link here, if you have it handy 14:16:33 <siddharthvipul> so, is there any update on that? 14:18:13 <siddharthvipul> https://fedoraproject.limequery.com/861695?lang=en 14:18:25 <nasirhm> siddharthvipul: I'm unsure of any update currently, The survey link doesn't seem to be on the ticket too. 14:18:30 <nasirhm> Thanks 14:18:42 <nasirhm> #link https://fedoraproject.limequery.com/861695?lang=en 14:19:09 <nasirhm> #info Review lime survey questions before sending it to the wider community. 14:19:30 <nasirhm> ashlyna++ siddharthvipul++ for working on it 14:19:39 <siddharthvipul> nasirhm, I am not sure why it taking so much time.. do we know who are the folks that will be giving final approval? 14:19:50 <siddharthvipul> if we wait for next meeting, it's 2 weeks later 14:20:07 <siddharthvipul> the idea was to do it in september, review took some time, then another review of this :) 14:20:55 <riecatnor> Hi 14:20:57 <riecatnor> I have input on this 14:20:57 <siddharthvipul> cc: jwf riecatnor jonatoni (jwf, just tagging you so that you can see it once you have landed and relaxed) 14:21:20 <riecatnor> I spoke with Justin earlier today and we need to intervene on this FWD process 14:21:39 <nasirhm> siddharthvipul: I think, we need a final look from the D&I Team member for the final approval, adding the link in the ticket, It'll hopefully be approved before the next meeting. 14:21:47 <riecatnor> I think we should choose a weekend today for FWD 14:21:58 <siddharthvipul> riecatnor, thank you. I concur 14:22:01 <riecatnor> The survey can go out with no dates so we can still acquire that info 14:22:11 <riecatnor> it is useful for the planning process 14:22:17 <riecatnor> survey is ready to go out afaik 14:22:26 <riecatnor> besides removing dates* 14:22:36 <siddharthvipul> I can do that first thing tomorrow 14:22:42 <riecatnor> perfect 14:23:07 <nasirhm> riecatnor: If that's a yes, I think siddharthvipul we're good to go as the questions were approved earlier. Kindly nuke the past test data (as you mentioned earlier) 14:23:16 <riecatnor> then let's ship it, we can tweet that, drop in it in telegram, send to d&i/mmindshare/counil lists 14:23:42 <riecatnor> We could create a short commblog post if desired 14:23:57 <nasirhm> Sure, For the tweet, I can RT or write a Tweet from @fedoracommunity . 14:24:00 <siddharthvipul> riecatnor, sure, I will share the link in diversity channel (final survey) and later you can pick it and share it to wider community 14:24:27 <nasirhm> siddharthvipul: SGTM :) 14:25:05 <siddharthvipul> I will leave deciding the date to y'all now 14:25:46 <nasirhm> #topic Selecting Dates for Virtual FWD 14:26:17 <nasirhm> #link https://pagure.io/fedora-diversity/issue/136 14:27:09 <nasirhm> riecatnor: Are there any proposed dates (I'm unable to find them on the ticket.) 14:27:22 <riecatnor> ok, let me look at the calendar now 14:27:33 <riecatnor> the previously proposed dates are now outdated 14:28:18 * nasirhm takes a look at calendar too 14:28:18 <riecatnor> I think it has to be the weekend of october 16th or 23rd 14:29:43 <nasirhm> siddharthvipul: On my calendar I see some Indian festivals for 23rd i.e Durga Puja and Maha Ashtami. 14:31:11 <nasirhm> Would contributors from India be able to participate comfortably ? 14:32:30 <nasirhm> riecatnor: can we go for 16th, 23rd and 30th ? 14:32:41 <riecatnor> I think we need to choose one weekend 14:32:55 <riecatnor> Release party is going to be the weekend of november 6-8th 14:33:05 <riecatnor> so the 30th seems not ideal 14:34:11 <nasirhm> Hmm, Makes sense. I think, let's keep 16th and 23rd as candidates and add the information in the ticket and ask people to comment there :) 14:34:33 <riecatnor> nope, let's decide now! 14:34:39 <nasirhm> #info Candidates for Virtual Release Party Dates are: 16th and 23rd October 14:34:47 <riecatnor> We need to decide now :) 14:35:15 <riecatnor> hold on one sec 14:35:17 <nasirhm> riecatnor: If that's the case, I'm a +1 to both. let's wait for input from others 14:36:58 <nasirhm> Although as there are some holidays in India on 23rd, I think 16th makes a good candidate. 14:37:04 <riecatnor> Let's do the 16th 14:38:06 <nasirhm> #agreed 16th October as the Date for Virtual Fedora Women's Day and appreciate and celebrate all the Awesome women in Fedora. 14:38:47 <rparimi[m]> I am so looking forward to it :) that will be my first FWD 🙂 14:38:51 <nasirhm> FWD reminds me of the Event Organizer pack 14:39:16 <nasirhm> ramyaparimi[m]: I too am excited for it and It'll be my first FWD too :D 14:39:24 <nasirhm> #topic Ticket #122: "Improve event organizer resource pack" 14:39:34 <nasirhm> #link https://pagure.io/fedora-diversity/issue/122 14:39:58 <rparimi[m]> <nasir_hm[m] "ramyaparimi[m]: I too am excited"> 😀 14:40:14 <riecatnor> ok so I will work on the submission for the event dates and provide an update 14:40:37 <nasirhm> #action riecatnor to submit the event dates and provide and update 14:41:13 <nasirhm> @orionstar25 any updates on new ticket for it ? 14:41:17 <nasirhm> Thank you @riecatnor 14:44:12 <rparimi[m]> so what happens on FWD? 14:44:37 <nasirhm> riecatnor: I see some action items regarding FWD, once we have the dates finalized, let's discuss them here leter :) 14:44:40 <rparimi[m]> sorry is it open floor yet? 14:45:01 <nasirhm> No worries, let's move to open floor now. 14:45:03 <rparimi[m]> I will hold my question unitl open floor 14:45:09 <nasirhm> #topic Open Floor 14:45:20 <riecatnor> I have things 14:45:29 <rparimi[m]> okay.. so what happens on FWD :D 14:45:40 <riecatnor> :D 14:45:59 <riecatnor> The FWD I went to we had several speakers talking about how to get involved with Fedora 14:46:09 <riecatnor> or, just what they do within Fedora 14:46:21 <rparimi[m]> okay! interesting 14:46:32 <rparimi[m]> thank you riecatnor 14:46:33 <nasirhm> ramyaparimi[m]: Fedora Women's Day (FWD) is a day of celebration to help raise awareness and thanks for the women contributors across the Fedora Project. Fedora Women's Day marks the anniversary of the Fedora Women team. The event is headed by Fedora's Diversity & Inclusion Team. 14:46:54 <riecatnor> that too :) so usually if they are in person we have some food and drink 14:46:56 <riecatnor> hang out 14:47:07 <riecatnor> since it is virtual it will be a bit different 14:47:20 <rparimi[m]> nasir_hm[m]: tq ! 14:47:22 <riecatnor> what if we had a series of women from Fedora tell their story of getting involved? 14:47:30 <rparimi[m]> <riecatnor "since it is virtual it will be a"> its BYOB then :D 14:47:39 <riecatnor> bring your own SNACKKSSS 14:47:41 <riecatnor> lol 14:47:54 <nasirhm> riecatnor: Interesting Idea, I'm a massive +1 for the session :D 14:48:24 <rparimi[m]> <riecatnor "bring your own SNACKKSSS"> lol yess 14:48:34 <rparimi[m]> <riecatnor "what if we had a series of women"> that will be awesome 14:49:24 <nasirhm> #info Session Proposal: Women from Fedora sharing their Stories of Getting Involved 14:49:34 <riecatnor> I think multiple sessions! 14:50:03 <riecatnor> could be 15 minutes how they got involved, 15 minutes on what they contribute to and how to get involved in that 14:50:19 <riecatnor> I would also like to see hallway tracks for different languages 14:50:44 <riecatnor> I honestly think that could be the entirety of the weekend with some social hours thrown in 14:50:47 <nasirhm> We can run Fedora Join Workshop type-of thing in the event to have the newcomers get themselves involved too, thoughts ? 14:50:56 <riecatnor> sure we could do a Join workshop 14:51:02 <riecatnor> Maybe one on each day 14:51:10 <riecatnor> have two speakers on each day 14:51:20 <riecatnor> and one social event each day 14:51:28 <riecatnor> and the hallway tracks 14:51:48 <rparimi[m]> what is hallway tracks? 14:52:13 <nasirhm> Sounds Awesome to me, ramyaparimi[m] do you have any ideas for FWD ? 14:53:26 <nasirhm> <ramyaparimi[m] "what is hallway tracks?"> Hallway Track will be a room, where people will join to connect with others like we do in in-person conferences in a Halway :D 14:53:26 <riecatnor> hallway track is an open room where people can just chat 14:53:46 <riecatnor> Before the end of the meeting, I have something if we could change topics? 14:54:09 <rparimi[m]> okay ... nasir_hm[m] cant think of any other ideas for now...thank you for asking 14:54:15 <nasirhm> Sure, we can indeed change topics :) 14:54:37 <nasirhm> <ramyaparimi[m] "okay ... nasir_hm[m] cant think "> No worries, if you have any, feel free to share them here or add a comment in the ticket :) 14:54:53 <rparimi[m]> sure 14:54:54 <riecatnor> I spoke with Justin about FWD and we feel it kind of needs an intervention so we can pull it off. To further that goal, we will meet again next week at the same time, I will chair the meeting 14:55:37 <riecatnor> As a side benefit, we will then be off the same week as the social hour 14:55:56 <nasirhm> Hmm, Will we be having the meeting here marie ? 14:56:02 <riecatnor> yep 14:56:19 <riecatnor> I will have Justin change the meeting invite 14:57:22 <nasirhm> #info The D&I Team will be meeting next week, same time here for discussion about the FWD, riecatnor will be the meeting chair 14:57:27 <nasirhm> Thank You Marie, Excited for FWD :) 14:57:31 <riecatnor> yep! 14:57:48 <riecatnor> also, I am going to write up some email that we can send out to women in Fedora asking if they would like to present 14:57:57 <riecatnor> we can review that next week and get it sent out 14:58:11 <riecatnor> or maybe a commblog post, that we send to mailing lists 14:58:15 <riecatnor> either way, we need to advertise 14:58:34 <riecatnor> I think a commblog post, wdyt? 14:58:35 <rparimi[m]> okay 14:58:55 <rparimi[m]> <riecatnor "I think a commblog post, wdyt?"> sounds good 14:58:55 <nasirhm> #action riecatnor to write a draft for an e-mail or a commblog post to ask women in fedora, if they would like to present their journeys in fedora 14:59:19 <riecatnor> Cool part about this is, we will have the recordings and can make a new series on our Youtuve 14:59:21 <riecatnor> youtube* 14:59:29 <nasirhm> <riecatnor "I think a commblog post, wdyt?"> ++ for the CommBlog Post and How about a Short email to past FWD Organizers and in the D&I ML, ? 14:59:34 <riecatnor> sure 15:00:16 <nasirhm> <riecatnor "Cool part about this is, we will"> Good Idea, we can have something like "We're Fedora" video like we had in Flock. 15:00:46 <riecatnor> mmm, I was thinking to upload each one.. But a trailer video would be an awesome additioN! 15:00:57 <rparimi[m]> yep its is a great idea to post in youtube... it such a great platform and also as an outreach.. I was checking videos on fedora channel yesterday .. there are so many informational videos 15:01:29 <nasirhm> #info Trailer or some teaser like "We're Fedora" in Youtube for FWD. 15:01:37 <nasirhm> ramyaparimi[m]: Indeed :) 15:02:14 <nasirhm> Are we good to close ? 15:02:21 <riecatnor> yep :) thanks nasirhm ! 15:02:31 <nasirhm> #endmeeting