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

2022 SLP Mentee/Mentor Feedback
D&I Landing Page Redesign
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
  - Exceptional Minds? https://exceptional-minds.org/generalinfo/

Diversity and Inclusion Working Group

2022 Q3 - July, August, September