Re: Inclusion office hours?

Seems like a good idea, and I would find some time to do that.

cheers

Chaals

On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 10:29:32 +0200, Léonie Watson <lw@tetralogical.com>  
wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>


-- 
Charles "chaals" Nevile
PegaSys Standards Architect, ConsenSys

Received on Friday, 26 July 2019 08:54:00 UTC