Re: + minutes of 2020-09-15 meeting - Re: Sharing the BLM statement feedback with the AC

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 20:53 Annette Greiner <amgreiner@lbl.gov> wrote:

> It occurred to me today that we should consider more impactful
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> ways to incentivize participation by black technologists. For
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> example, what if we offered free membership for any organization
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> that has a rep who is black?
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More diversity within the AC is great. Just as important would is more
diversity within the WGs themselves.

I find it particularly disturbing that large companies sending large
numbers of technologist to multiple working groups aren’t doing even a
small effort to improve the diversity of their own cohorts.

Could we consider making W3C members sign (on a voluntary basis) a pledge
with concrete steps to improve this situation, communicate about it, and
then hold them accountable?

—tobie