Re: Inclusion office hours?

I'm in.

—Florian

> On Jul 26, 2019, at 10:29, Léonie Watson <lw@tetralogical.com> wrote:
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> Everyone,
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> When discussing the diversity fund with the selection committee, I had an idea...
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> One of my forthcoming office hours meetings is with someone who wants to know how to get involved in the ARIA WG.
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> 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.
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> I don't know how we'd manage it logistically, but if the idea has enough support here, we could think about that next.
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> Léonie.
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