07 Aug 2024 - Diversity Equity & Inclusion Special Interest Group Meeting

[PaulaPaul]

Date

20240807 - 12:00pm EST / 5pm GMT

Untracked attendees

• Fullname, Affiliation, (optional) GitHub username
• ...

Meeting notices

• FINOS Project leads are responsible for observing the FINOS guidelines for running project meetings. Project maintainers can find additional resources in the FINOS Maintainers Cheatsheet.

• All participants in FINOS project meetings are subject to the LF Antitrust Policy, the FINOS Community Code of Conduct and all other FINOS policies.

• FINOS meetings involve participation by industry competitors, and it is the intention of FINOS and the Linux Foundation to conduct all of its activities in accordance with applicable antitrust and competition laws. It is therefore extremely important that attendees adhere to meeting agendas, and be aware of, and not participate in, any activities that are prohibited under applicable US state, federal or foreign antitrust and competition laws. Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

• FINOS project meetings may be recorded for use solely by the FINOS team for administration purposes. In very limited instances, and with explicit approval, recordings may be made more widely available.

Agenda

• Convene & roll call (5mins)
• Display FINOS Antitrust Policy summary slide
• Review Meeting Notices (see above)
• Approve past meeting minutes (including minutes from @eteridvalishvili and @Perelmuter )
• DEI SIG Participant Recruiting #49 (Sergio) - call for additional GitHub task owners/maintainers
• September '24th NYC OSFF event/presentations related to DEI SIG (October 1st DEI Lunch time networking session & DEI Panel ) #52 (Rimma)
• Grace Hopper Celebration updates (Paula): Finalize co-hosts, programming, and promotion for GHC Open Source Day #56 Decide / establish FINOS presence at GHC #41 Finalize panelists, promotion, and delivery of the GHC 2024 panel presentation #53
• August 2024 DEI SIG event Co-hosted with AnitaB.org Boston Community #58 Work with FINOS Projects to add the DEI Project badge to FINOS Projects and promote the work #60 (Paula)
• AOB, Q&A & Adjourn (5mins)

Decisions Made

• Follow up with @mcleo-d on discussion of NatWest framework/approach for DEI (for Oct-Nov SIG call?)

Action Items

• Ticket swap between OSFF and Lesbians who Tech (Mimi/Serge)?
• Consider rounding up good first issues to build project contributors across FINOS (Karl)? Consider using https://goodfirstissue.dev/, and/or hosting FINOS Virtual Hour of Code events: https://hourofcode.com/us/how-to/virtual
• Other events where we can connect directly with underrepresented groups? Many universites have Women in Tech or similar conferences (James, Karl, and Paula are speaking at diversity events).

Meeting Info

Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/94969868675
Meeting ID: 949 6986 8675
Passcode: 184472

[mcleo-d]

James McLeod / NatWest

[mimiflynn]

Mimi Flynn / Morgan Stanley