Re: Inclusion office hours?

Hi Léonie, all,

Catching up on this thread from last Summer, I went into our CG blog and created a (private) ‘Page’:
  https://www.w3.org/community/idcg/inclusion-and-diversity-office-hours/

This page is private to this group only (let me know if once logged in you are still unable to access it —the alternative is to publish a password-protected version while we tinker on it).

I have listed those who volunteered in a table that tentatively displays: Name (this could link to your preferred homepage), Expertise/function, Time (time when your volunteer. e.g. “first Friday of the month”), Contact (calendly, mail, phone, other), Notes (anything you wish to communicate).

If this approach works for everyone interested, please, go in and edit in place (or let me know and I’ll do it for you), and when we’re ready to push this, we can publish it publicly and disseminate the news by way of an IDCG blog post, our Twitter feeds, other.

Cheers!

Coralie


> On 26 Jul 2019, at 10:29 , 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.
> 
> 
> 
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> Director @TetraLogical TetraLogical.com
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