Re: Inclusion office hours?

I’m totally up for this if you’re still playing around with this.

—Zoë Bijl

On Fri, 26 Jul 2019, at 17:29, Léonie Watson 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.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Director @TetraLogical TetraLogical.com
> 
>

Received on Tuesday, 17 September 2019 15:20:15 UTC