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Fwd: [systers] IETF 105 Female Attendance
by Mirjam Kuehne 26 Jul '19

26 Jul '19

Hi, FYI some numbers from the IETF meeting this week. Mirjam -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [systers] IETF 105 Female Attendance Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 09:49:58 -0400 From: Jasmine Magallanes <jmagallanes(a)amsl.com> To: systers(a)ietf.org Hello Systers, As requested, please see the female to male ratio below for IETF 105. Please note that not everyone fills out the gender field on their registration. Here is the best information we have to date. Female onsite attendance: 125 Male onsite attendance: 864 Overall, about 11% of our community identified as female this meeting. Thank you! Regards, Jasmine Magallanes Project Coordinator Direct +1 510-492-4086 Fax +1 510 492-4001 --------- Association Management Solutions Forum Management, Meeting and Event Planning Website: http://www.amsl.com _______________________________________________ systers mailing list systers(a)ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/systers

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Article on RIPE Labs re: Neurodiversity (and Slido)
by Amanda Gowland 26 Jun '19

26 Jun '19

Hi all, I wanted to share some background behind our motivation to pilot Slido at RIPE 78: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/agowland/the-microphone-is-the-devil-some-kno… And also, if you appreciated/support that we continue to use such a tool, now is the last chance to submit feedback on the RIPE 78 Feedback Survey: https://ripe78.ripe.net/feedback/ Many thanks, Amanda

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Article on "Trying to be a better man"
by Mirjam Kuehne 25 Jun '19

25 Jun '19

Hi, I came across this article: https://medium.com/@rafi0t/on-trying-to-be-better-men-227d2aad6670 It's already from 2017, but still quite timely. FYI, here is the code of conduct of a security conference I attended last week: https://www.first.org/about/policies/code-of-conduct I don't think they have a team to enforce this. It's done by the FIRST board. Mirjam

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Exposing the Bias Embedded in Tech - NYTimes
by Amanda Gowland 18 Jun '19

18 Jun '19

Hi all, There was a great article in the NYTimes yesterday and this quote pretty much sums up why we're doing what we're doing: “But what I always think the way to turn anything around is to shine a light on it. You keep the light on there until the data surfaces, and then you have to find a way to fix it. It’s not a ‘check the box and move on, everyone take unconscious bias training and we’re all good now.’ You have to keep at it, keep at it, keep at it.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/business/artificial-intelligence-bias-te… <https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/business/artificial-intelligence-bias-te…>

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RIPE 78 Diversity Podcast on Spotify
by Amanda Gowland 14 Jun '19

14 Jun '19

Hi all, Paula Gould from Men and Mice and I were interviewed for a podcast on diversity...you can have a listen here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2xkCaYDrqI2n9wf9laEwAI?si=mW8Edyz5Rq2qv08f… Warm regards, Amanda

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Re: [diversity] [Ext] Re: RIPE Code of Conduct 2.0
by Leo Vegoda 13 Jun '19

13 Jun '19

On 6/13/19, 3:01 AM, "diversity on behalf of Rob Evans" <diversity-bounces(a)ripe.net on behalf of Rob.Evans(a)jisc.ac.uk> wrote: [...] > As Trusted Contacts, our primary responsibility is confidentiality of > the report to us. Our training was as a "vertrouwenspersoon," although > fortunately for me that was the only part of the training that took > place in Dutch. > > This makes the production of reports somewhat difficult as above all we > do not want those who have reported an issue to us to feel they could be > identified through that report -- or that in future they do not report > an issue for fear of being identified (the simple act of writing down > the report is even something to consider). It's obviously important that trends for the frequency of reports, the type of incident reported, and other relevant factors are monitored. But it might not be necessary for those numbers to be published in a report. Nonetheless, a key goal is to help people feel safe, so that they can obtain the maximum benefit from the meeting. For that reason, it might make sense to commit to measuring people's feelings in a survey and include a few of the most important perception indicators in a report. This could help show whether the process is achieving that result without risking its confidentiality. Kind regards, Leo Vegoda

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Diversity in RIPE Meeting leadership
by Amanda Gowland 12 Jun '19

12 Jun '19

Hi all, I read this and wanted to pass it on: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613320/ais-white-guy-problem-isnt-going-… The research they cite recommends: "The researchers offer several recommendations for improving workplace diversity in a more comprehensive way. These include measures aimed at closing the pay and opportunity gap, increasing diversity at the leadership levels across departments, and changing the incentive structures for company executives to hire and retain workers from underrepresented groups." ...which leads me to think this: What is the TF doing to address the extreme lack of diversity in the RIPE community leadership, eg: RIPE PC, RIPE WG Chair Collective? In the RIPE PC, we have two women and 11 men and almost no racial diversity. In the RIPE WG collective, we have 28 WG Chairs - 4 women. Same as ^ for racial diversity. Tackling diversity in the community leadership is key for us to acheive our goals of increasing D&I at RIPE Meetings. Interesting to note...I've been spending some time doing some data gathering to see if there's any correlation between the # of female presenters in a WG when there's a female WG Chair. I'll report back when I'm finished (it's a lot of manual work). Anyways - curious to get a dialogue started on this. Thanks, Amanda

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neuro diversity observations post RIPE 78
by Ruben van Staveren 31 May '19

31 May '19

Hi, Just want to chime in that as an reasonbly introverted person with autistic treats (yes, it is true but I think I mask it pretty well) I saw two things that made me especially happy this event: * The piloting of slido for getting more questions than the speakers, than just besides the mic. I tried the mic once and I had eh, startup problems. No worries though * I also think the decorating the badge is a splendid idea, as it makes it definitely easier to break the ice amongst attendees for talking abouit subjects If you haven’t seen it, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fD2BvS3Aqw (Nerd Wrangling 101 from SHA2017) is a good talk about the subject of neurodiversity. I also enjoyed being a mentor, I had doubt at first that my knowledge about the community was still current after being out for ±10 years. It seems my mentee also enjoyed it and gave him a good head start in the community. With regard to feedback from that area, he mentioned that during one of the main room sessions there was a strange sound that gave him the impression of having tinnitus, I also repeatedly got distracted by people’s phones and laptop sometimes making sound. Can happen of course, but sometimes it made you almost wonder to have a tech talk on “how to set my device on mute” ? Best Regards, Ruben

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Mail to RIPE LIst on CoC 2.0
by Brian Nisbet 27 May '19

27 May '19

Folks, I'm going to send the email to the RIPE List I should have sent last week, sorry about that. I'll be explicitly asking interested parties to join the Diversity TF list to discuss the CoC rather than discussing it on that list. Malcolm, you raised some going points during the LT on Tuesday, so it would be great if you could post them here soon. Thanks, Brian Brian Nisbet Service Operations Manager HEAnet CLG, Ireland's National Education and Research Network 1st Floor, 5 George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin D01 X8N7, Ireland +35316609040 brian.nisbet(a)heanet.ie www.heanet.ie Registered in Ireland, No. 275301. CRA No. 20036270

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RIPE attendee gender trend: Update for RIPE 77 and RIPE 78
by Shane Kerr 24 May '19

24 May '19

Hello all, I don't think that I published and update of the earlier work done tracking trends of gender of RIPE meeting attendees. Here's one including RIPE 77 and RIPE 78. Basically we look at first name and country and try to guess the attendee's gender based on that. You can see the repository on GitHub which explains the approach, and how to use it yourself. I have a separate branch that I'll merge into the main page when the meeting is over, which will give final statistics: https://github.com/shane-kerr/ripemtggender/tree/ripe78 For RIPE 78, we have a relatively lot of names that the underlying genderize.io tool can't even make a guess about: 26 in all, compared to 16 at RIPE 77 in Amsterdam and 18 at RIPE 76 in Dubai. 12 of these are Icelandic names. I'm happy to hard-code these to the correct values if anyone wants to help me with that (I don't know about Tryggvi, Kristbergur, or Örvar, for example). As for the overall trends, the trend of more women attending does continue but there does not seem to be any sharp increase. I don't think we can see a strong signal from when the diversity task force started working, although of course the data is very messy, it was not too long ago, and the actual numbers depend on a huge number of factors (city the meeting is held, quality of the guesses, hard disk prices, and so on). I pushed the date out to find when we might have 50% women attendees at the meeting, and using the current eyeballed polynomial match it's 2026 or so. While that seems not too horrible, I doubt we will follow that trend line and I think that 2026 is a best case. But we remain ever hopeful. As a bonus, I also went through the membership of the RIPE Programme Committee since it's inception (I think), as well as the chairs of RIPE working groups in roughly the same period. (I used the historical RIPE meeting site for PC membership, and slides from the opening plenary with pictures of the WG chairs for the WG chair membership.) This picture looks bad, since it seems like women are under-represented compared to RIPE meeting attendees. This strikes me as an area requiring special attention, and it can be done; for example the IETF has taken specific efforts to ensure enough diversity in their leadership positions. Anyway, I've attached a few charts so you can see for yourself. Cheers, -- Shane

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