An excerpt from a Slack conversation a few weeks ago:
webchick [19 days ago]
@alisonjo2786 So we do a “first-time contributor” sprint every DrupalCon, which is some of that. It doesn’t specifically say “please come here if you’re a woman, queer, or a PoC” because that seems like. Implying that those factors would somehow mean you need extra help, which seems messed up.
drnikki [19 days ago]
It could say “please come if you are woman, queer, POC, because we value your contributions.”
alisonjo2786
[19 days ago]
Oh that's really good...
rubyji [19 days ago]
Yes or “because we need the contributors to be more diverse to make Drupal more awesome.”
drnikki
[19 days ago]
It could say “we recongize that there are often additional barriers to participating if you are queer, trans, POC, and we want to offset that if we can.”
This makes a lot of sense to me, though I don't have any access to enact these changes myself.
An excerpt from a Slack conversation a few weeks ago:
This makes a lot of sense to me, though I don't have any access to enact these changes myself.
Posting this here in the hopes that either the DA or the Drupal Mentoring Team puts them into action. :) We could also do a bit more bikeshedding on the actual text we want to add to pages like e.g. https://events.drupal.org/vienna2017/sprints and https://events.drupal.org/vienna2017/first-time-sprinter-workshop and https://events.drupal.org/vienna2017/mentored-core-sprint and https://events.drupal.org/vienna2017/general-sprints.