 Good morning, afternoon and evening to everyone who's joining us here today. My name is Marie Norden and I am Fedora's Community Action and Impact Coordinator. Yona, would you like to introduce yourself? Yeah, hi everyone. I'm Yona and I'm part of the Fedora Diversity and Inclusion Team. And Vipud? Hello, I'm Vipud, the faceless person in this talk. I work at Red Hat in Community Platform Engineering Team doing infrastructure bids for Fedora and Centroes. But today I'm here as Diversity and Inclusion Advisor to Fedora Council. Awesome. Alright, so we are here today to talk about the Dora Week of Diversity, which was held at the beginning of October 2021. So first I am going to start off with a little bit of history. So our long-standing event has been Fedora Women's Day. And we had a diversity team meetup at the beginning of this year in March 2021, where we had a long discussion about moving that to a Fedora Week of Diversity. Now, this was something as a team that we wanted to move forward and kind of have some growth in. So that's why we made that change. So from there, I kind of picked up the project management role for the week. And we started out with a call for interest on the diversity and inclusion team mailing lists and IRC channels to see who was going to be interested in jumping onto this initiative. So for this year's planning and work on the FWD, we had Iona, Vippo, Ashlyn, myself, Grayson, and Honoralp. That was the little working group that we had. And everyone kind of contributed different things. But I will have to specifically call out the video editing efforts by Honoralp, who was just on screen with us a few moments ago. That was a monumental effort to do that. So we decided as a working group to really focus on existing processes or things that we had done in the past. So we also wanted to keep a well-defined and reasonable scope. Most of us are volunteering or for myself, I'm not volunteering, but I'm project managing a lot. So we all have a lot of other responsibilities. So we wanted to come up with something we could actually complete and make happen. And then we also, all at that time, we're really feeling a lot of virtual fatigue. So we really didn't want to create something that was going to add to that. So these were the kinds of things we were focusing on. So I think next Iona will take it away and talk a little bit about what we did. Yeah. So as Mari were mentioning, like we had a brainstorming regarding some ideas, what we could do for federal week of diversity. And of course that we had like many ideas, many things that we wanted to do. But instead, we said, you know, we need to choose a few of them. And let's say prioritize the main ideas that we thought to bring for this year. So which one we focus? So first of all was the video series of federal stories. So basically we wanted to bring some federal related stories from different people that, and we started this at NEST this year. So basically we had a session that people could jump in and they could share their federal stories. So like how they became part of federal were some of the people that held them or mentor them in the community. What were some moments that they remember and they liked from the community and so on. So this was the first part. And also like we continued it also later. Mari did some other videos that we published. Then the second was we started to have a resources page on our federal DNI doc page. And about that people will also tell you a bit later like what does it mean, how it's helpful for others and so on. Next what we did is also we published the videos from Federal Women's Day that happened last year. So we publish all the videos we had on our YouTube channel so people could watch it. Another one was the Federal Social Hour. So basically this time was like themed with the Federal Week of Diversity. And like that people could just jump in and chat with us. Next I believe you saw on the previous slides also the brand or the logo that we have for the Federal Week of Diversity. So this was like another part that we focused. And we have also a badge that you can see on this slide. So in case like you were part of the Federal Week of Diversity. So you shared your federal story and you don't have the badge. Just let us know you can write to people and he will award the badge to you. And of course the last but not least is the promotion part. So we focus this time more on Twitter. So we let's say wrote some tweets regarding all these goals that we were mentioning now. And during the Federal Week of Diversity we shared all the videos or all the materials we had prepared. So this is it for the goals and then Marie. Sure. So this is just a brief overview of the engagement we had for the Federal Week of Diversity. As of November 1st when Nona and I put this together. So hopefully there's a bit more on there. We weren't really sure what we what to expect with the engagement here. So it was a bit hard to do any like benchmark as far as is this successful. Is this not I would say overall the feedback that we received was positive. But I think sadly we also received some negative like we got a lot of downvotes on our videos. So I think that there's we're addressing a problem that are addressing a topic that's still a problem. And we got some tweets that were not like the nicest. So I think there's some some work to be done in our overall ecosystem still here and accepting these kinds of things. But the interesting thing was that I mean these really this really it was a genuine. What's the right word genuine kind of effort to just to really elevate the stories of the real people in her community. So we weren't trying to fake anything or do something that was disingenuous. We were really trying to be authentic to our fedora community. So we hope people can kind of actually just see that instead of just the word diversity. So we had, as I mentioned, as Jonah mentioned, we had two different YouTube video playlists. And we also did a lot of work on Twitter. And we also had I think a couple of blog posts and I actually pulled up things too many tabs. I tried to pull up. Yes, these playlists so that folks could enjoy that here as well. So we had. So we had 22 fedora stories. I don't mention we got like I think 15 or 16 during nest and then I did some other interviews. And then we had 16 videos from fedora women's day 2020. All right. So I'm going to talk about this one a little bit too. What is the fedora week of diversity mean for fedora women's day because that was something we have done for a couple of years. People really enjoyed it and we actually had quite a bit of success with it. So fedora week of diversity doesn't mean that fedora women's day is going away. This simply means that this is what the current team of folks wanted to put their energy into. Based on the circumstances we're in as far as our virtual world and our virtual world we're living in now and kind of stuff we've learned as a community and as a society together about bringing in even more folks beyond just women. So that is that's kind of why we moved, but that doesn't mean that we can't do fedora women's day. So when we move back to being able to do in person events, we hope to be able to support local organizers in creating fedora women's days. So we'd like to do that still around the same time of year. And even better would be able to promote it during most likely a, you know, global virtual fedora week of diversity. We want to encourage local folks to kind of continue that on. So all of the processes and how to get resources for that are up on our dots. So that's something that we can definitely do in the future. And this is not not going away. So just wanted to review that because we've had that question. All right, next time I'm going to hand it over to people. Thank you. So I recommended resources based months before the fedora week of diversity. Maria and I were already in a call brainstorming ideas for things that we can do during the week and how can we do it more each and highlight some of the efforts by different folks around the world. And one of the idea we liked was a resource base. It is not exactly for highlighting the work that's being done but also more about how can we expand so that I have got a lot of personal messages. How can they learn more and what's the reason we are doing things. And we already had something similar. We asked folks to take a course and incentivize with a pass when the course was still is active by the way inclusive open source community orientation by the next foundation. If you take that course providers with a certificate, we would award you a badge. And when I took that course I learned a lot from that. And when we were discussing these ideas to do things, a resource space was one of the things we thought would be amazing and a lot of folks would learn from that. And so the initial resource space had things mostly from the finding that I started looking into more resources, more articles courses after the inclusive open source community orientation course. The goal of this resource space is to have a place where people who are interested in learning more about why our efforts are important or how can they learn more and try to understand what we do. And exactly why we do that. So if you are interested in learning more about diversity, if you're interested in learning more about some things and not just listen to Vipul, don't just listen to Murray, don't listen to Yonah, but there are a lot of people who have been a lot of studies and experiences from different sorts of life. You go and you take the course, you understand things, you read different articles and why it adds values. So the resource space should have courses, articles, studies and it's supposed to be a continuously evolving thing. If you have something to add would definitely be amazing things to add it there. There are a bunch of other places as well that I found while exploring different areas, but they were quite vast and I wanted it to be coming from my experience and I was looking for different resources and that's where the resource space things born often. I was looking for something concise and that's why we focused on content that we found someone we know or ourselves actually read and found useful. So if you have something that you read or you went through it and you thought this was an amazing thing that you learned, it would be an amazing thing to add to the resource space and obviously contributions are always welcome there. So as the resource, I'll add the link to chat there. So if you're interested in checking what we have there for now. I just dropped it. Oh, thank you very much. Yeah, in the resource space, you'll find short courses that will take around 30 to 120 minutes or then there are also some very extensive things more than four hours and these are the things that someone from be it and be an IT team has actually taken it and understand that this is a good and I'm actually very much interested in finding more studies so if you come across them it would be good things to add there. Awesome. I just want to point out a book that I put on that page which is called the culture map and I just read it like a month or so ago, and it taught me so much and it's not. It's not theoretical it's very practical like it's, it's like this is how you can actually look at why cultures have evolved and do things in certain ways and it looks at, I think eight different, you know, different things and how like what the, what that spectrum is so for example like communicating people who are low like cultures that are low context versus high context and giving you a history of why that's the case or like how people view time. You know, some people are very rigid with their time whereas other people are very wishy washy right so we've all experienced, you know, different things. I'm working with a global community different ways that people work and this honestly gave me aha moments about I don't know maybe four or five of my coworkers and I'm like, I now understand why this person likes to explain things a certain way or why they ask questions in a specific way so I just wanted to point that one out in particular that it's a super awesome read and I would recommend it to anyone working with global community and I agree to it and I don't think this is even just restricted to communities, especially useful if you have in your own company and team people from different Yeah, it works for business, you know, work, you know, if you're your coworkers or whoever it works in a lot of places it's a really good one. So, what's the plan for 2022. This is something that we want to come up with again as a team, and we are looking for more folks to get involved. You know, as I mentioned at the beginning we have a certain amount of resources and we did an amazing job with what we had I'm so to proud of the team and but I'd love to see more right like I'd love to maybe provide some trainings or have some more virtual events or maybe have some guest speakers come and talk but all of that takes organization and time and resources so we need more folks to join us and you know come with your ideas if you have things that you want to do or you think that we should be doing we'd be super happy to have more people involved. So now let's go and see if we can take some questions and I see we have a couple in the Q&A tab. So I'll start with the first one here. I thought about another thing on neurodiversity. Not all neurodiverse people are great drivers, which means that an accommodation for a neurodiverse person can be not requiring a driver's license. I don't have one and even with accommodation driving is very complicated for me. So I hope that the virtual format has helped with that required I'm not sure exactly if it's a question or you're providing some commentary but I think that the pandemic has had like a little bit of a silver lining and we've seen such a tremendous amount of engagement with our online events. And I really hope that some of those attendees are folks that were underrepresented historically at our in-person events because of some of the reasons that you're mentioning here. Okay, so the next question is it might be slightly off topic but is Fedora Appreciation Week still a thing? I didn't see much about it this year other than I have it in my calendar. So Fedora Appreciation Week didn't happen this year. That was something I think that Justin was heading up at one point and just like a lot of things in our community that is driven by a person who has a passion for it. We actually looked at including aspects of Fedora Appreciation Week into this and we sort of did, right? So part of Fedora Appreciation Week was the contributor stories and we took that idea contributor stories and we evolved it to video stories. So previously those were blog posts and this time we just wanted to make that into a video format. So we didn't pull off the Fedora Appreciation Week as its own standalone thing but we actually borrowed some stuff from it. Also something along the same line we tried to revive a happiness video happiness packet but unfortunately it was not finished by time to have deployed and working person so that was that idea was dropped. So we are also looking for more tips than ops person. Yes, definitely. Getting happiness packets up again for Fedora would be awesome and we did have a couple different people looking at that but once again it was a resource thing. So hopefully we can get that up and going for next. Are there any other questions for us today? Someone's asking how to clean the Fedora Week of Diversity badge. So to claim that badge you had to have participated in the Fedora Week of Diversity, but there will be one next year that you can be involved with. So keep your eye on places like the community blog, the diversity and inclusion mailing list, the diversity and inclusion channel or chat. So if you keep an eye on those places you'll see when we're working on it and you will have a chance to earn that badge again next year. I hope that helps. Let me see if there's anything else going on in here. Oh, is there still an echo going on for folks? I didn't hear you. Okay. Oh, I saw just a couple of messages here in the chat. Awesome. Someone says they're interested in the book recommendation. I'm really glad to hear that. Well, if we don't have any more questions, thank you everyone for your time. We'd love to have you involved. If you can't contribute to organizing, just to participate, tell one of your stories next year, come by our social hour, whatever that might be. So really appreciate your time and have a great day at the release party. Yes. And again, happy Fedora 35 release party. Have a good time. Woohoo party. Bye everyone.