January 2023

February 2023

8 March 2023

Attendees: Carol Payne, Rachel Rose, Sergio Rojas, Karen Ruggles, Katilin Pollock, Tom Szenher, Ferby Cremer, Tracy Priest, Bill Ballew, Trina Roy, Aliza Carpio, Rebecca Carroll, Jessica Glass

Working Group 2023 Survey Results (Rachel + Carol)

• Reiterate goals/mission statement and abbreviations as a start of each meeting

• Reference to the mission statement being on the new Confluence page 
  https://lf-aswf.atlassian.net/wiki/display/DIWG/Diversity+and+Inclusion+Working+Group+Home 

• Focus Areas for Working Group:

  • Increase ASWF Diversity and Representation

    • leadership/membership should reflect our diversity/inclusion values

    • Our impact has increased diversity/inclusion in Governing Board with the succession plan

  • External Outreach & Education

    • Specific goal to educate high school/college individuals to interface with open source in VFX/Animation

    • Our impact created the Summer Learning Program and Careers Webinar

  • Member Guidance

    • Guidance and resources for Foundation for education within ASWF

    • Our impact created blog posts and the landing page

• 14 respondents: Meeting times are good with 57.1% of respondents, 28.6% said the time is not good

• ~70% of respondents attend 4-11 meetings in 2022

• Member respondents were asked about our pillars in the survey. Generally, respondents believe we are doing well with Increasing ASWF Diversity and Representation. External Outreach & Education is doing well, according to the respondents. Of the three, Member Guidance struggled but still generally in the middle of the road. 

Proposed Initiatives for 2023 (Carol + Rachel)

Open

• Recognizing that the National Science Fair needs some work and this is likely what contributed to it being at the bottom. 

• “Beers of a Feather” and Open Source Diversity Framework has generally good feedback

1. Hackathon (falling under increase ASWF Diversity & Representation)

   1. Bringing in new contributors is main target

   2. Reach out to Carol if you are interested. Carol will interface with TAC, Aliza would like to help

2. SLP (External Outreach & Education)

   1. If interested reach out to

3. Beers of a Feather (External Outreach & Education)

4. Open Source Diversity Framework (Member Guidance)

   1. For 2023 the aim is to Scope it and do a discovery pass on what this would be in order to keep in manageable with a reach goal of contributing a few pillars within the Framework

   2. For 2023 also aim to publish a list of D&I resources – ASWF companies could learn from this to impact their company and benefit from a D&I impact

Plans for 2023:

Open

Summer Learning Program (SLP) Update and Application Rollout 

• SLP application is live! Please share with everyone.

• linked in post (please reshare!): https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7039291187123372032/ 

• blog post: https://www.aswf.io/blog/summerlearningprogram2023/ 

• email template call for volunteers: https://lf-aswf.atlassian.net/wiki/display/DIWG/Call+for+Volunteers+Email+Template 

• SLP Wiki with everything and more links: https://lf-aswf.atlassian.net/wiki/display/DIWG/Summer+Learning+Program 

• volunteer application directly: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5CRtUqnRjkhAoi2SmDAIlTNYH9sqvSMvPB_XyMpfDO1E0pA/viewform 

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  • Learner Applications Due: 14 April 2023

  • Application Reviewers Needed: 18 April - 26 April 2023

  • SLP Program Dates: 1 June 2023 - 21 August 2023