Jill Binder: Hello, today we'regoing to do a walkthrough of all
of the diversity resources thatwe've put together for the
community over the years, whichyou can find on
tiny.cc/wpdiversity. My name isJill Binder. I'm the founder and
lead of the DiverseSpeakerTraining Group
#WPdiversity on the communityteam. I'd love it if you'd
follow me on Twitter andMastodon.social @jillbinder. So
quickly I'm pulling uptiny.cc/wpdiversity. Which
brings us to the page on thehand on the community handbook.
I'm just going to walk quicklythrough first who is this for?
Diverse SpeakerTraining Group#WPdiversity team members.
You'll learn how to do thingssuch as run our meetings and our
workshops. WordPress Meetup andWordCamp organizers who will
learn how to create diversespeaker lineups and inclusive
events. WordPress event andprogram supporters, you will
learn how to support the Meetupsand WordCamps to create diverse
speaker lineups and inclusiveevents. Underrepresented
speakers in WordPress, you willlearn how to overcome your
speaking obstacles, how to finda topic, how to put together
your speaker applications, andwhere to find our
underrepresented speakerresources. Anyone who wants to
learn how to run one of ourdiversity workshops for
WordPress, you will learn how tohold the workshop for your own
Meetup or WordCamp, which is themost effective method of holding
workshop. Also those who want tohold it for other groups online
in WordPress, perhaps globalworkshops as we've been doing,
you will learn how to do thistoo. WordPress community
workshop organizers fordiversity or for other community
workshops, you will learn how tocreate a smooth, successful
workshop and also how to collectthe data. For example, you can
see the data and testimonialsthat we show at these various
links. This is the page that hasthe description of everything
that we do and there's anexpanded section starting here
to read more details where we gothrough data, testimonials...
data and testimonials for eachone. We also show that this data
and testimonials on our regularreports at
make.wordpress.org/community/tag/diversespeakerworkshopsreportsand /tag/WPdiversityannualreport
where we put up a report once ayear of all of the data and a
few of the highlighttestimonials from the year.
Translators, you will learnabout our systems for
translating the WP diversityworkshop material so that you're
able to translate them into yourown language. And finally,
everyone in WordPress who wantsto know more about DEIB-
diversity, equity, inclusion,belonging- for WordPress events.
These resources are also foryou. This is going to be a
walkthrough of all of ourdiversity workshops, systems and
resources that are available ontiny.cc/wpdiversity. Let's go
into each section now.
First, at the top, there aresome sticky items. Have you
applied to speak or have youspoken at an event? Let us know!
It's really important for us tocollect how many people have
actually used this material. Andeven more important: Have you
run a diversity event orworkshop? Tell us here! It's
really important for thecommunity to have this
information. The second one goesto a tracker spreadsheet where
you can put in the name of theevent the data was held the
location it was held, whether itwas online or virtual. And we
some of the importantinformation that we need is how
many people attended, who we cancontact if we have any
questions. And in the datasections I'll show you how to
collect scores from before andafter. This we'll calculate the
percent increase and here youcan tell us what you are
measuring. These parts areoptional.
This section shows our upcomingWP Diversity workshops. You can
add to this list. We will showyou how later on. We're watching
this video right now.Walkthrough of the WP diversity
resources is on this page. Inthe section What is the Diverse
Speaker Training Group#WPdiversity, here we have our
programs and how to getinvolved. So at the top here we
have a quick summary of thethree programs that currently
exist. Number one, how to ownyour expertise and start
speaking at WordPress eventsworkshops, otherwise known as
our diverse speaker trainingworkshops or underrepresented
speaker workshops. Diversespeaker support WordPress Slack
channel,#diverse-speaker-support on the
WordPress Slack, and organizinginclusive and welcoming events
workshops. And then there's asection that goes into more
detail of what these all are.Starting with Read More Details,
more detailed explanations,data, testimonials.
The Running a WP Diversity GroupMeeting section links over to a
ClickUp task list. This is atask list for running our
meetings. There's some importantinformation here on how to use
these management templates. Andthat will explain these two
lists here. We have a simplelist in the simple plan. It's
just a few of the most importanttasks to do when running a
meeting and where to find thelinks that you need. And the
optimized plan is every singledetail to ensure that the
meetings are smooth, the teamshows up, and the community
knows what was discussed. Also areally cool benefit of using
this ClickUp is if you create afree click up account, you can
plug in these templates, changethe date of the meeting, and
have it tell you what to do andwhen. Be sure to read the
section at the top.
Resources for WordPress Meetupand WordCamp Organizers. This
section is also good for theWordPress event and program
WordPress event supporters andWordPress program supporters.
We're going to go first intocreating a diverse speaker
lineup. You'll see here thatfrom here on, I've divided each
section into essential andoptional additional resources.
Essential is the most importantparts. It's the most... it's the
essential, essential andoptional additional resources
are just if you'd like to divein further to the topic; you
don't need to go into that. Butthey are available if you'd like
to. Under the essential materialwe have Building a Diverse
Speaker Roster, why and how todevelop a group of
underrepresented speakers toapply to speak at your Meetups
and WordCamps and WordCampspeaker selection is a document
on how to do WordCamp speakerselection for content and
diversity. So far it's beentranslated into Italian. We also
have an optional additionalresources. Hold a Diverse
Speakers Workshop for your localcommunity. This is the fastest
way to develop a group ofunderrepresented speakers to
apply to speak at your Meetupsand WordCamps. The diverse
speaker support Slack channel,our slack channel to connect
organizers and underrepresentedspeakers for WordPress speaking
opportunities. Join, try to formgenuine connections, and post
your speaking opportunities withas much detail as you can. WP
Speakers: find a speaker This isMichelle Ames, otherwise known
as Michelle Frechette'sWordPress directory of speakers
to speak at your WordPressevent. And you can use the
filter to find underrepresentedspeakers. Underrepresented in
Tech. Underrepresented in Techis a database of
underrepresented talent to speakat your tech events, including
WordPress. And we have adocument on supporting Black
voices in WordPress: A helpfullist of tips for addressing
black voices specifically.
Under Creating a Diverse,Inclusive, Welcoming WordPress
Meetup or WordCamp, here westart with some definitions.
These these are the importantthings to know. What is
diversity? What is DEIB? What isdiversity in WordPress? etc. And
then we have our sections forthe essential material and the
optional advanced topics. Underdefinitions we have a primer for
DEIB in WordPress #WPdiversity.This is a video on the basics
of diversity, equity, inclusionand belonging- DEIB- within the
WordPress community and in ourMeetups and WordCamps. Diversity
in WordPress: why? And what isit in your part of the world? A
video on defining what diversitylooks like for your WordPress
Meetups, and WordCamps in yourpart of the world. Why is
diversity important to WordPressand to your local community? An
article covering why diversityis important for our WordPress
Meetups and WordCamps. Underessential material, there is a
venue accessibility checklist.It is a list that can help you
assess potential venues fortheir accessibility. Organizing
diverse and inclusive eventsworkbook. This is a Google doc
workbook with importantquestions and checklists for
making your event diverse,inclusive, and welcoming. And
code of conduct for in personevents and for virtual events is
a key component of creatinginclusive, safer events.
Displaying and applying thiscode of conduct. So ahead of
time, when people are signing upfor the tickets, have them say
that they will abide by the codeof conduct. At the start of the
event, announce the code ofconduct. And if there if any, if
any issues come up during theevent, you can refer to the code
of conduct for how to deal withit. And then, if you'd like to
read on further and learnfurther that are optional,
advanced topics.
Organizing Diverse and InclusiveEvents workshop. There are three
videos on what you can do tofoster, promote, and support
diversity and an inclusivespace. This workshop explains
the organizing diverse andinclusive events workbook. This
is the workbook from thatworkshop. In the first part, we
have the same video as up here,Diversity in WordPress, why and
what is it in your part of theworld. Same video as that.
Creating a Welcoming and DiverseSpace Part One, and Creating a
Welcoming and Diverse Space PartTwo. Inclusive and welcoming
events: An article on the basicsof how to make your event
diverse, inclusive andwelcoming. How to run your own
inclusive workshop for yourMeetup or WordCamp. You're
invited to run the organizingdiverse and inclusive events
workshop for your Meetup orWordCamp. Encouraging diversity
in meetups and WordCamps. Thiswas a panel discussion led by
Angela S Jin, how we can betterencourage and support diversity
in Meetups and WordCamps and inthe broader WordPress community.
stimpunks.org/access theStimpunks Foundation created
this site full of usefularticles on making events
friendly for neurodivergent anddisabled people. The Calling In
series. Calling in bringsawareness to problematic or
oppressive behavior. A series ofarticles from Angela S. Jun on
good ways to approach this. Allcommunity diversity and
inclusion initiatives. This isan official list of all of the
community diversity andinclusion initiatives in
WordPress. Organizationssupporting wordpress.org new
working group proposal. At thetime of putting these resources
together, there was a proposalfor a centralized working group
to collect WordPress resourcesfrom all independent
organizations, including onesthat support inclusion and
diversity. So you'll be able togo to this proposal to see what
the status of that group is atthis time.
Resources for underrepresentedspeakers in WordPress. Here we
have a lot of information forunderrepresented speakers in
WordPress in order to overcomeyour speaking obstacles, how to
find a topic, how to puttogether your speaker
applications, and where to findyour underrepresented speaker
resources. The first part is youcan take a workshop. You can
find out here where you can takean upcoming live workshop. And
there's also a self-pacedworkshop online that you can
take at any time. This materialis the same in both. Part One:
How to Own Your Expertise andFind a Topic. If a group has
done a short version of theworkshop, it is just part one.
But we also, whether you take itlive or self paced, we encourage
you to also take the rest of themodules. Part two: Create a
Great Title, Pitch and Bio. Partthree: Create an Outline for
Tour Talk. Part Four: Become abetter speaker, Handle the Q&A
questions and Create GoodSlides. Find a WordPress
speaking opportunity. Our Slackchannel #diverse-speaker-support
will help you find WordPressspeaking opportunities, get
mentorship, get connected withour speaker resources, and
network with fellow speakers andwith WordPress event organizers.
WP speakers join as a speakeryou can add yourself to Michelle
Ames otherwise known as MichelleFrechette's directory of
WordPress speakers with yes forunderrepresented. WordPress
meetups: Search for WordPressmeetups and reached out to them
to ask to speak and WordCampsuse the speaker application
pages of upcoming WordCampwebsites to apply to speak. And
also another plug for our Slackchannel. Speaker mentors,
mentorship, and resources ourSlack channel to find WordPress
speaking opportunities, getspeaker mentorship, get
connected with Speaker resourcessuch as Speaker travel funding,
and network with fellow speakersand with WordPress event
organizers. If you find you tryto click and it says that you're
not allowed in, you don't have aWordPress account yet. On our
first page, back at the top onour programs, our programs and
how to get involved, we havesome information here on how to
sign up, watch a video on how tojoin the WordPress Slack and
join our Slack channel.
Resources to Hold a DiversityWorkshop. We encourage people in
the community to hold both ofour workshops, hold an
Underrepresented Speakerworkshop and hold an Organizing
Diverse and Inclusive WordPressevents workshop. For Holding an
Underrepresented Speakerworkshop, we have some
information about the workshopand then we have templates for
you. There's the full up to fivehour version. That five hour,
hands-on, interactive workshopfor underrepresented members of
your community to generate a fewideas for talks, an outline on
one topic, a title, a pitch /proposal for applying to events,
and a chance to practicespeaking. This has been
translated so far into theselanguages. This is a full
workshop up to five hourversion. You have the option to
pick and choose which of thefive modules you choose to run;
you don't need to run all ofthem. We also have a shortened
version. If you only have timefor the most important material,
this would be it the shortenedunderrepresented speaker
workshop, the two hour, hands-oninteractive workshop to find a
topic and boost your confidencefor speaking at WordPress
Meetups and WordCamps. This isthe core content of the above
full workshop. It's recommendedto do it in about one and a half
to two hours. We also have analternative, a very easy way to
run workshops. Instead oflearning how to run it yourself,
you can just hit play on thevideos and go. We also have
notes for translators. These arethe assets that are recommended
to translate. And an additionalresource, a template of workshop
background admin tasks for asuccessful workshop and to
collect data. I will talk aboutthat later.
Our other workshop: Hold anOrganizing Diverse and Inclusive
WordPress Events workshop.Again, it's very important to
tell us if you ran either of theworkshops on our tracker sheet.
I have some information aboutthe workshop. This is the core
how to hold the workshop. If youread nothing else on this page,
just do this, load up the mainslides. It will lead you through
all the parts. We also have foryou again, an alternate, a very
easy way to run the workshop. Dothe first eight slides up to
slide number nine. Why do wecare about diversity in
WordPress? And then for the restof the time hit play on these
videos: Diversity in WordPress:Why and what is it in your part
of the world, Creating aWelcoming and Diverse Place Part
one, Creating a Welcoming andDiverse Space Part two, so you
don't need to learn to how to dothe workshop. You can just play
the videos. And then this isjust where to find information
if you're looking for additionalnotes and assets to be mindful
of
Resources for WordPressDiversity and Community Workshop
Organizers. For folks who arerunning our diversity workshops
or a diversity workshop, oranybody in the WordPress
community who wants to run, whowants to learn more about how we
run workshops. This is a sectionwith our best practices to have
a smooth, effective, successfulworkshop for the participants.
The best ways to get the wordout there, the best ways to,
that we're aware of, to getpeople to actually show up. And
if you're interested in datacollection and collecting
testimonials, we also show youhow we have done this as well.
This link leads you to ourClickUp tool. And in this tool,
be sure to read the section atthe top with the overview and
the description, theexplanation. And then we go to
these two lists. The Simple Planis a quick and direct list of
the tasks that we think are thebest to keep in mind when
producing these workshops. Thereare no integrations or
step-by-step instructions. It'sjust best practices and things,
important things, to remember.Optimized, this goes much deeper
into the specific how to use inthe tool that we use for the
data collection needs so thatthe participants and producers
have a wonderful time. This isthe most effective and
efficient, but it does involvesome setup. And again, just like
with our WPDiversity TeamMembers section, if you have a
ClickUp account already, youcan, following these
instructions at the top, loadthis into your own ClickUp. And
if you don't have one already,you can sign up for a free
ClickUp account. And then youcan plug in these templates,
change the date of the workshopand have it tell you what you
need to do and when it will justwalk you through all the steps.
I hope that you found thiswalkthrough useful. I look
forward to seeing how everyoneuses the material and I look
forward to seeing how ourcommunity tracker list grows.
Thanks so much. Have a greatrest of your day.