On 5/4/16 4:12 PM, Don Sheu wrote:
I'm in the process of instituting guidelines for handling Code of
Conduct reports with my group in Seattle, PuPPy. First step is
recruiting a diverse committee. Unfortunately, currently our organizing
team is overwhelmingly male. Last thing I want is for a Code of Conduct
procedure where a member who's not white or male is facing a process run
entirely by white males.
Don,
The hardest part of diversity is attempting to diversify an already
non-diverse group. I searched for a long time for how to do this.
Finally, after watching the Code: Debugging the Gender Gap documentary,
I got a clue, applied it, and it worked. The secret is pro-action. You
must go out and specifically and specially invite people individually,
and invite them not just to participate, but to lead. I did this for the
PyData Carolinas conference coming up this fall and it worked so well
that the majority of people on our board of organizers are female and
twenty percent are non-white:
http://pydata.org/carolinas2016/about/organizers/
I went to PyLadies and other groups and asked for their help. They
responded with several highly qualified Python data scientists. I didn't
just ask for volunteers. I approached them each individually, told them
each why their qualifications are needed, and invited them to come take
the reigns of various conference committees. You can get diversity. You
just have to work at it and not wait for it to come to you. You must
reach out and reach out specifically to individuals, recruiting each
with an offer of leadership.
--
Sincerely,
Chris Calloway, Applications Analyst
UNC Renaissance Computing Institute
100 Europa Drive, Suite 540, Chapel Hill, NC 27517
(919) 599-3530
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