September, 2023

Attendees

Carol Payne, Rachel Rose, Mylun Jackson, Dhriv Govil, Sean Wallitsch, Kaitlin Pollock, Ferby Cremer, Greg Grusby, Ninette Tan, Kirstyn Salehi, Tom Szenher, Martha Benitez

• First meeting for Mylun Jackson and Dhruv Govil reintroduced himself

Agenda

• SLP 2023 Recap  - "This year the program went above and beyond" - Rachel Rose ... "The group just ran with it"
  • (Kaitlin, co-chair for program) 
    • Wrapped up third year of the program
    • 20 learners from LGBT+ community as part of this year's focus group
    • We added speaker series this summer and final one was on mini talks
      • Learning - need someone to drive this component next year (Aliza is open to doing this next year)
    • Guest mentor program
    • Final presentations - 17 demos presented 
    • Swag is going out soon
    • Feedback - email/market more to (guest) mentors 
    • Survey will be sent out and post mortem to follow (to iron out steps for next year) 
      • Planning would start in October
• Dev Days update & brainstorming around how to run the event
  • Update from Carol
    • Site went LIVE and there is a link to registration form - https://sites.google.com/view/aswfdevdays/home
    • This is first attempt in October with Hackathon like event 
    • Need to share and promote (with member companies)
    • We need help including supporting Slack and answer general questions
• Accessibility update / brainstorming (project ideas confluence here
  • Accessibility in ASWF Projects
  • How can we make ASWF projects easier to use (including artifacts) for those with disabilities? 
  • This is new for us and we are looking for help to get this going
  • We can use this group to brainstorm 
  • Please join Slack channel too 
• D&I Open Source Framework (call for involvement)
  • Two parts:  We are looking for help. Tom is happy to lead this 
    • Work to publish D&I resources that can be published for our members; it's about curating existing information - access for our members
      • Google sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/162ZZnM6if-4huiQz4ghoJEGnCtI0p9Pl6v8jZ8obY9A/edit?usp=sharing
    • An open source D&I framework and put together a proposal 
• Review of our plans for D&I group

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