Topics of Discussion

Using Recourse Center's safety rules as specific action items in addition to a general code of conduct.
- no feigning surprise
People could use training on how to interact with large groups of people in a more equitable way.
As opposed to within activist communities, it can be frustrating to talk about diversity and inclusion when there is no shared literature base among the participants.
If you don't see yourself represented, how do you know you can participate? This is an especially relevant question when picking session speakers and recruiting sprint mentors.
separating privilege and comfort / vs systemic stuff
- No one likes to have their privilege thrown at them
How do we give critical feedback and help people accept it and want to move forward?
- do we need to give feedback with the same specificity with which we'd write a bug report/no generalities
Encourage people to make better mistakes tomorrow, or at least different mistakes
Struggling with ow to be a good ally but feeling like personal experience doesn't qualify you.
ex: A white individual wants to discuss diversity, but feels like it's not appropriate because of their whiteness.

Shared Resources

Generally, we want to keep the conversation going
Most people all listen to podcasts - should we have a diversity podcasts, with diversity success stories? Does this already exist?
- Benefit: when listening you hear more nuance and can pick up more and its often more accessible than reading.
Start a camp-level diversity initiative template that camps can use and try to start one at the DA level at the same time.

Literally continuing the conversation: Tuesday May 17 from 6 - 8pm PST in IRC's #drupal-diversity channel.
A diversity survey is being drafted in the open. Please contribute: https://github.com/drnikki/diversity-survey