2023-08-31 - Team meeting recap

[jflory7 (Justin Wheeler)]

The Fedora DEI Team reconvened for the first time in a while last Thursday, 31 August. This was the first meeting our team had in some time! Thanks everyone who was able to make it and attend. Our next meeting is scheduled for 2023-09-14T13:00:00Z and will take place over Matrix in #dei:fedoraproject.org.

News & announcements shared

• Fedora Mentor Summit @ Flock 2023
  • Flock 2023 YouTube playlist
• Fedora Pride is getting started. The September 2023 meeting is scheduled for 2023-09-15T14:00:00Z. Check out the details on Fedocal.
• Fedora A11y Working Group is finding a meeting time.
  • Accessibility WG meeting poll 2023 - Fedora Discussion
  • Accessibility Working Group Meeting Time Poll - Google Forms

Discussion topics

We discussed two topics primarily: the DEI Advisor role and Fedora Appreciation Week.

Recently, @siddharthvipul1 shared that he would step down as the DEI Advisor to the Fedora Council. Vipul has been a long-time champion of the team in the Fedora community and we appreciate all his contributions over the years in this capacity! Now, we need to nominate a new DEI Advisor to the Council. There is a Discussion post (linked below) with more details. A GitLab ticket will be opened soon to formally kick off the 1-week nomination period and then collect votes by team members.

It's time for a new DEI advisor

Hey folks, I wanted to share some news regarding my role as the DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) Advisor at the Fedora council. As some of you might know, my responsibilities have expanded significantly in recent times, particularly with my work at UNICEF and my move to another country. While I’ve been honored to serve as the DEI Advisor, I’ve come to realize that I have too much on my plate to continue in this role effectively. You may have heard the saying, “Don’t lick the cookie!” In …

Lastly, we discussed launching the next Fedora Appreciation Week timed to the 20th anniversary date of the Fedora Project. Right now, we are looking for volunteers to help and feedback on the meeting discussion from last week. We will continue to cover this topic in our next meeting too, since 6 November is coming up! See the GitLab comment below for more details.

Fedora Appreciation Week 2023 (#15) · Issues · fedora / Diversity Equity and...

In other news…

Speaking of GitLab… it is official! We have finally moved off completely from Pagure. I spent time earlier this week to migrate the remaining Pagure issues either to the Home or Initiatives repository, based on the feedback collected in @rwright’s HackMD pad for our old tickets. I also moved our docs from Pagure to a dedicated GitLab repo (below).

fedora / Diversity Equity and Inclusion Team / DEI Team Docs · GitLab

Now that everything is moved, we will continue to adjust our workflows to be GitLab-centric. Fortunately, we have the advantage of not having two competing places for comments and discussion. Also worth noting, the Pagure repo was set to read-only. That repository will be preserved on Pagure until we can eventually import the issue history into a new GitLab repo.

That’s all for now. See you next time!