Inclusion office hours?

Everyone,

When discussing the diversity fund with the selection committee, I had 
an idea...

Enabling people to go to TPAC is a worthwhile thing for W3C to do, but 
TPAC itself is a tough introduction to W3C for anyone who isn't already 
participating in some way.

Each week, I make two 30 minute slots available in my calendar, and 
anyone who wants to talk about accessibility or inclusive design, is 
welcome to take one of those slots. I post my calendar on Twitter and a 
couple of other forums, so the meetings are open to anyone (though I do 
set some basic ground rules like no selling, and that I make no 
commitment to doing homework after any call). This isn't about creating 
business, it isn't a paid service, it's a community thing designed to 
help people out. I borrowed the idea from Matt May at Adobe (another 
accessibility person), and I daresay he borrowed it from someone else too.

One of my forthcoming office hours meetings is with someone who wants to 
know how to get involved in the ARIA WG.

Which makes me wonder if we could create a Poole of volunteers willing 
to give up 30 minutes of their time, perhaps once a month, to talk to 
people from under-represented groups who would like to get involved at 
W3C but don't really know where to start.

I don't know how we'd manage it logistically, but if the idea has enough 
support here, we could think about that next.

Léonie.



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Received on Friday, 26 July 2019 08:29:59 UTC