Linking with last year’s lecture (“A Field Guide to Caring for a Developer”) exploring mental health . We shall build on that and discuss diversity and inclusion in the IT sector.
You will want to attend this workshop if you ever wondered:
How may we grow our local wordpress community by actively and in practicum embracing and celebrating diversity?
and/or
How may we make our spaces and events truly safe for women, visible-minorities and other marginalised, under-represented groups and sectors of our community?
We will host a facilitated, vibrant and inclusive group discussion in which strategies may be shared and further developed with a view to increasing outreach to underepresented communities within our larger community. We will also dialogue and exhange ideas and strategem around making all spaces increasingly more welcoming and supportive to diverse groups of gendered, non-gendered, mental health and racialised communities.
We’ll begin with a brief overview outlining some of the challenges and positing solutions based in some measure on proven successful examples, including those of WordPress.com, and a bit of my personal journey in the IT sector.
At the end, I will include a resource list to provide folks the opportunity of digging deeper and to facilitate change withing their organizations going forward.