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13 July 2022

Attendees: Karen Ruggles, JT Nelson, Grace, Parth Dode, Kaitlin Pollock, Barathy Rangarajan, Aliza Carpio

  • New! Parth D, based in Bombay, DevSecOps engineer (Linux)...passionate about open source and film industry. How can I be of help and contribute?
  • New! Grace..interest in exploring communities, interest in gaming, animation. Grace is part of tech bridge between San Diego and Pasadena.

Notes

  • SIGGRAPH session - Monday at 4 pm time…talk about what we have accomplished, especially in diversity and inclusion effort. It will be a retrospective
    • Highlight succession plan
    • Diversity in the industry
    • Outreach/learning opportunities 
      • Idea (from JT) around recruiting 
      • Web page rebrand
      • Promote ASWF on-demand talk
  • Open Source Days during SIGGRAPH
  • Team introduced themselves

August 2022

14 September 2022

Attendees: Trina Roy, Jen Goldfinch, Jessica Glass, Rachel Rose, Michael Baron, Aliza Carpio, Ferby Cremer, Kaitlin, Sean Wallitsch, Kirstyn Salehi, Kevin Clark (https://gladeo.com/) , Sergio Rojas, Emily Olin, JT Nelson, Edward Dawson-Taylor, Barathy Rangarajan, Dhruv Govil

Agenda

  1. 2022 SLP Mentee/Mentor Feedback

  2. D&I Landing Page Redesign
  3. National Science Fair

SLP Survey (Karen)

  • 80% was right amount of time (an improvement from last year) - 50% getting through two courses
  • Mentors increase our confidence
  • Appreciation on self paced learning
  • Structure for mentor/mentee conversations - need to be explicit on this
  • Slack channel was not as active - potential tips to network and make connections…it was quiet compared to last year. 
    • We lost a lot of momentum cuz they could not get started and it was hard to get it back
    • It took a while to install Maya on Linux since I was a beginner and I didn't know that the user had to configure it.
    • Get a concrete idea of what topics they are interested in
      • Even a short course everyone can do together
    • Formalize operations/program managing
  • Potential LIVE event to bring together the mentees
  • Mentor feedback
    • 70% felt they had positive impact on their mentee
    • Joy in mentoring and passion for industry they work in
    • Better matching this year
    • Structure the milestones - can mentors have access to SLP slack channel
    • Positive experience
    • As we grow, we will need to pull on mentors that we don’t directly know
    • Consider creating a sub-committee
    • Ideas for mentors on what to do 
    • An idea “Friday Free Days” - less formal, a space to meet others in industry…or mini panels…mentors leading something monthly for the cohort
    • Refine team lead structure - conscious grouping (cohort structure)
  • Feedback! We need calendar and actions before summer starts
  • Feedback! Would pre-form platform be better but work with your mentor to work through syllabus..Udemy could be a “gift” to do on your own time
  • Lead time? January? The longest piece is the platforms we are using and how long will this take. 
  • Moving forward with structure idea…have post mortem period - let it rest and come back in January? 
  • We should learn externally on how to prep for next summer
  • Focus on Neurodiversity and could be a front runner for next year’s focus group. 
    • Can we provide a broad definition of neurodiversity or if it’s self identify …would have to be self-identify
    • Could we bring these resources to help with mentors too so they can bring back to their companies
    • A good reason to focus here because there is not much out there

Other topics

  • National Science Fair
  • Re-release of our Webinar Series
  • Redesign our page (on Wordpress)

NOTE from chat:

Kaitlin asked Dhruv if there was an update for python 3 yet. Dhruv responded "I do note. Apple has strict rules on side stuff, but I can ask if I can release an update to it for Maya 2022/2023 but I generally just point out the differences early on in the course if I remember correctly."

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