Sustaining a multiracial Dev Summit community
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Sustaining multiracial npdev community
Kinds of diversity that are most relevant to NPDev community:
- Race/ethnicity
- Language
- Location
- Country of origin
- Neurodiversity
- Health/body diversity (e.g., physical disabilities/chronic illness/heath and safety needs)
Needs:
- Physical space (question: is the current space big enough/accessible enough??)
- Overt facilitation support
- A way to contribute without bravery (without being in the panic zone, see below)
- Different ways of participating
- Clairfication of our communinty's definition of technology
- Empowerment/collective ownership of community*
General ideas:
- Outreach programs
- Demystifying what really happens/More info about content ahead of time
- New name that is more accurate/more clear/more inviting to non-technical people
- A little more clarity about structure themes
- More advance design of themes (kinda like AMC tracks)
- More time to think/not be on the spot with the mic
- Ways to contribute requests/ideas without the mic or a conversation with Gunner (aka a busy person they may have never met)
- Name that it's scary/antiety-provoking to be on the mic in the circle
- Translation/interpretation
- Orientation/onboarding re format
- Pre-session virtual
- 1:1s held by recent first-timers with new first-timers
- Pre-plan multilingual sessions
- Partnerships with community orgs to send staff and hold space
- Host committee
- More different circle keepers
- Bring your mentee
- More invitation and support for inviting others in your community
- Ask all attendees who shouldbe here and what support do you need to bring people? (Note this already happens in the follow-up form)
- Balance of making it people's own responsibility vs Aspiration's responsibility
- Accept messiness ambiguity of shared power
- Be explicit about leaning into imperfection
Elements of clarifying community norms/demystifying what really happens
- Do you need to be an expert? NO!!!
- What does "holding space" mean?
- Be in your stretch zone, not your comfort zone or panic zone (https://www.crowe-associates.co.uk/coaching-tools/comfort-stretch-panic-coaching-tool/ one of many available simple explanations of what this means)