Lessons Learned from Developing an Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Roadmap

[stefaniebutland]

Who is the audience?

Who might want to know this? What other groups or organizations might be interested?

• people in the rOpenSci community who want to have their say about how we can continue to improve, or gain knowledge to apply in their home organizations
• organizations wanting to develop their own EIA roadmap
• community managers
• Research librarians
• NumFOCUS and its member projects
• NSF INCLUDES

Why is this important?

This is not an easy issue to address, so here's an opportunity to learn from the experiences of other organizations and the people who have done the work.

From announcement of The Carpentries Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Roadmap

Creating an environment where contributors have access to the tools they need, and feel included in the open science/open data community is imperative. This is where equity, inclusion, and accessibility come together.

What should be covered?

• what do the terms mean: equity, inclusion, accessibility, diversity, underrepresented, and how might they mean different things to different people
• what else?

Suggested speakers or contributors

• Kari Jordan, Senior Director of Equity and Assessment for The Carpentries
• Cedric Chambers, CEO of JUMP Recruits

Resources you would recommend to the audience

• The Carpentries Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Roadmap
• NumFOCUS Diversity & Inclusion in Scientific Computing (DISC) program
• Diversity equity and inclusion blog series by Community Engagement Fellows from the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement

[stefaniebutland]

Talk by Heather Turner @hturner for R #celebration2020 "Moving Forwards: Greater Equity and Inclusion in the R Community" would make a great complement to this topic. We'd change the title of the Community Call to be more general.

Heather's slides with lots of useful links: http://heatherturner.net/talks/celebration2020

[stefaniebutland]

closing this issue as other organizations are covering this well now