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Minutes of today's Diversity Task Force Call - 13 July 2018
by Mirjam Kuehne 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Hi all, Here are some notes of today's diversity task force call. Kind regards, Mirjam ====== Diversity Task Force Meeting 13 July 2018 Brian, Vesna, Amanda, Mirjam, Sami (for the first ten minutes) Denesh sent his apologies and an update from UKNOF: “I am working on having us do a talk at the next RIPE meeting about how we have and are approaching diversity. I am hoping the talk will be given by someone else rather than me and at the moment, one of our new board members (from a couple of months ago) - Liz Stevens - has tentatively agreed to do this.” Updates from RIPE 76 -------------------- Amanda reported that we received a report from the organisation who facilitated the childcare at RIPE 76 and also from the participants. Everyone was very positive. There were five kids last time, we expect around ten at RIPE 77. More information on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/agowland/ripe-meeting-diversity-efforts-on-si… Plans for RIPE 77 ------------------ After it was such a success at RIPE 76, we will provide the same service at RIPE 77. We are also trying to promote it some more (e.g. on the registration page). We already found a childcare organisation in Amsterdam for RIPE 77. We are still looking for sponsors, but the RIPE NCC is also considering to ask for contributions from the parents (25 EUR per day). During the RIPE 77 week, there are school holidays in the south of the Netherlands. We are currently working with sponsor for the Women in Tech lunch. From now on, we will have a banner for “women and inclusion sponsor” on the RIPE Meeting website (in addition to the other sponsor banners). The mentorship programme will be offered again for RIPE 77. Mentors can sign up online for multiple meetings. Newcomers (and other interested participants) can sign up if they want to have a mentor. Registration for RIPE 77 will open on Monday and will include information childcare and mentorship. The gender metrics question will now also be included on the registration form. The RIPE Fellowship and the RACI programmes also help to increase diversity. See more details about the RIPE fellows at RIPE 76 on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/agowland/ripe-fellows-share-their-ripe-76-exp… There was also a nice RIPE Labs articles about the benefits of role models: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/agowland/why-role-models-matter-especially-in… Vesna announced that there will be a hackathon in Amsterdam prior to RIPE 77 in collaboration with the University of Delft. Benno Overeinder introduced us to the managing director for the Dutch office of girls and women in tech: https://www.vhto.nl/ We will see how we can collaborate with her and possibly organise a session around RIPE 77. Brian mentioned that the RIPE Meeting Code of Conduct and the pointer to the childcare is now in the Call for Presentations. Also, the PC agreed to ask presenters of larger organisations to possibly consider proposing another speaker/colleague to increase diversity in general. There is now also a line in the CfP about panels to increase more diversity in terms of companies/organisations. In the future, the PC would also like to include another sentence, something like: “We would also ask you to consider the diversity of the panel (in terms of gender, culture, etc.).” Vesna suggested to make the PC system more flexible to be able to change names/presenters more easily. Vesna will follow-up with the PC and the RIPE NCC web services team. Vesna also mentioned that she will talk to local groups in the Netherlands. And we we will also encourage others to do that. Other activities ----------------- Vesna is involved in organising a feminist meeting in Amsterdam in September. She will present about Internet Governance and will promote our diversity efforts. Mirjam reported that Shane looked at other methodologies to measure diversity at RIPE. He also suggested to look at the criteria we use to hand out prices at the end of the RIPE Meeting (current first person who registers wins a price and first Newcomer who registers wins a price). Maybe it’s time to look at other criteria? The idea used to be to encourage participation. But that is not really necessary anymore. Brian said it’s meant to be a silly fun thing and cautioned us to over-engineer it. Other suggestions were made on the call: - possibly take the first five or ten registrants and pick one of them (only if that person is in the room). - possibly award the 77th registration at RIPE 77 and so on (if that person is not in the room, pick another silly number). The RIPE NCC will come up with a proposal and send it to the diversity list. We agreed to do another call in September.

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Video-conference meeting invitation: Diversity TF, 13 July 2018, 11AM EST
by Vesna Manojlovic 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Dear all, let's have a pre-summer-holidays meeting, to discuss diversity topics! Everybody is welcome to join this video-call, not just "members" -- you become a member by being active! Agenda: - updates from RIPE NCC - updates from RIPE PC - open actions - preparations for RIPE77 - other contributions See you there! Vesna https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/tf/ripe-diversity-task-force *Diversity TF* Friday, July 13, 2018 11:00 am | Europe Summer Time (Amsterdam, GMT+02:00) | 1 hr Meeting number (access code): 705 350 265 Meeting password: C37cUX3q When it's time, join the meeting: https://ripencc.webex.com/ripencc/j.php?MTID=mc46a5825350add9093c80b2944bff… *Join by phone* *+44-203-478-5289* Call-in toll number (UK) Global call-in numbers <https://ripencc.webex.com/ripencc/globalcallin.php?serviceType=MC&ED=621456…> Can't join the meeting? <https://collaborationhelp.cisco.com/article/WBX000029055> IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please note that this WebEx service allows audio and other information sent during the session to be recorded, which may be discoverable in a legal matter. By joining this session, you automatically consent to such recordings. If you do not consent to being recorded, discuss your concerns with the host or do not join the session.

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FW: [RIPE PC] For review: Draft call for presentations RIPE 77
by Brian Nisbet 21 Jun '18

21 Jun '18

Folks, The PC are looking at the CFP for RIPE 77 and we're looking at adding in some text about a few things. The first is a reference to the CoC, the second to childcare and the last is to something we were discussing in the PC around encouraging speakers, especially from big companies to consider if other, more diverse, voices might be able to present the material. Leslie has already suggested the following re: childcare Did you know that RIPE meetings now have onsite childcare? Read about the experiences of our next generation of engineers at https://labs.ripe.net/Members/agowland/ripe-meeting-diversity-efforts-on-si… The CfP is already quite long, so we need to make sure we don't make it too much longer, but your input would be gratefully received. Obviously we would ask the CfP not be spread outside this group until it goes public as there may be other things we need to change before next week. Thanks, Brian Brian Nisbet Network 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 On 18/06/2018, 14:13, "PC on behalf of Benno Overeinder" <pc-bounces(a)ripe.net on behalf of benno(a)NLnetLabs.nl> wrote: Hi all, Just before you go on holiday, we need to send out the CFP for RIPE 77 in Amsterdam. Find the draft text below. It is an updated CFP from the RIPE 76. There are two items I want to discuss with you: - the terms & conditions as discussed with Athina during PC lunch - inclusiveness in CFP: reference to, e.g., help with child care, code of conduct, etc. The terms & conditions text should be ready for/present in the PC submission system. Normally it does not appear in the CFP. The inclusiveness paragraph in CFP (maybe just 2 or 3 sentences): - is this a good idea? - next, who can provide some text for this paragraph (the Diversity TF?)? We would like to send out the CFP next week Monday, June 25th. Cheers, -- Benno ----------> %%%%% <---------- Call for Presentations A RIPE Meeting is an open event where Internet Service Providers, network operators and other interested parties get together. Although the meeting is mostly technical, it is also a chance for people to meet and network with others in their field. RIPE 77 will take place from 15-19 October in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The RIPE Programme Committee (PC) is now seeking content proposals from the RIPE community for the plenary sessions, BoFs (Birds of a Feather sessions), panels, workshops, tutorials and lightning talks at RIPE 77. See the full descriptions of the different presentation formats, https://ripe77.ripe.net/submit-topic/presentation-formats/. Proposals for plenary sessions, BoFs, panels, workshops and tutorials must be submitted for full consideration no later than *26 August 2018*. Proposals submitted after this date will be considered depending on the remaining available space in the programme. The PC is looking for presentations covering topics of network engineering and operations, including but not limited to: - IPv6 deployment - Managing IPv4 scarcity - Data centre technologies - Network and DNS operations - Internet governance and regulatory practices - Network and routing security - Content delivery - Internet peering and mobile data exchange - Connected Things (aka. Internet of Things - IoT) Speakers Presenters, RIPE Working Group Chairs and the RIPE Programme Committee are required to cover their own costs to attend a RIPE Meeting (meeting ticket, travel and accommodation). We have various ticket options available depending on your needs. In extraordinary circumstances, the RIPE Chair can waive the meeting fee for presenters. These requests are dealt with on a case-by-case basis via pc(a)ripe.net. Also note that, on an individual basis, participants can apply for a RIPE Fellowship to develop their professional or academic career. For more information, please visit: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/ripe-fellowship Submissions Presenters should be clear on whether they wish to submit a presentation for a plenary or working group (WG) session. At present, most working groups will solicit policy proposals, discussion points or other content directly via their mailing lists. If you’re not sure what kind of session you should be presenting at, please visit: https://ripe77.ripe.net/plenary-or-wg/ RIPE Meeting attendees are quite sensitive to keeping presentations non-commercial, and product marketing talks are strongly discouraged. Repeated audience feedback shows that the most successful talks focus on operational experience, research results, or case studies. For example, presenters wishing to describe a commercial solution should focus on the underlying technology and not attempt a product demonstration. Presenters should indicate how much time they will require. In general, the time allocated for the different presentation formats is as follows: - Plenary presentations: 20-25 minutes presentation with 5-10 minutes discussion - Tutorials: up to two hours (Monday morning) - Workshops: one hour (during evening sessions) to two hours (Monday morning) - BoFs: approximately one hour (during evening sessions) - Lightning talks: 10 minutes total for both presentation and any discussion The following general requirements apply: - Proposals must be submitted using the meeting submission system, https://ripe77.ripe.net/submit-topic/ - Lightning talks should also be submitted using the meeting submission system (https://ripe77.ripe.net/submit-topic/) and can be submitted any time up to and including the meeting week. The allocation of lightning talks will be announced on short notice, in some cases on the same day but often one day prior to the time slot allocated. - Presenters who propose a panel or BoF are encouraged to include speakers from several (perhaps even competing) companies and/or a neutral facilitator. - All presentation proposals will only be considered by the PC if they contain at least draft presentation slides (slides may be updated later on). For panels, proposals must contain a clear description, as well as the names of invited panellists, presenters and moderators. If you have any questions or requests concerning content submissions, please email pc(a)ripe.net. -- Benno J. Overeinder NLnet Labs https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/

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Reviewing our on-site childcare pilot at RIPE 76
by Amanda Gowland 18 Jun '18

18 Jun '18

Hi all, We just published an article looking back on our childcare pilot at RIPE 76: https://labs.ripe.net/ Warm regards, Amanda

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Harvard's Gender Tech 2018 Event - on now
by Amanda Gowland 05 Jun '18

05 Jun '18

Following the #HarvardGenderTech18 feed on Twitter is proving to be very interesting - highly recommend!

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Draft minutes - RIPE Diversity TF Meeting - 15 May 2018
by Amanda Gowland 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

Hi everyone, Please find the draft minutes from our last meeting below. If you have any comments/changes, please send those through before these get posted online. Warm regards, Amanda --- RIPE Diversity Task Force Meeting - 15 May 2018 Present: Amanda Gowland,Brian Nisbet, Sara Marcolla, Cristian Sirbu, Ingrid Veling, Mirjam Kühne, Vesna Manojlovic, Denesh Bhabuta Agenda: - On-site Childcare Pilot at RIPE 76 - Gender Metrics update - Mentoring at RIPE Meetings - Outreach w. local tech community - AOB On-site Childcare Pilot at RIPE 76 Amanda gave an update on the on-site childcare pilot. The room was perfect - large with a lot of natural light. The provider, WorldWide Kids, did an amazing job with the set-up. As expected, the take-up wasn't massive (originally eight children registered but half dropped out before the meeting). There were five children that ended up in the room but the buzz on Twitter and at the meeting about the service was hugely positive. ISOC was the sponsor for the pilot and we hope that we can secure additional sponsorship for RIPE 77 in Amsterdam. We expect the take-up to be much bigger now that word of mouth is out. Gender Metrics Update Shane gave an update on gathering metrics. He sent an email to the Diversity TF mailing list with some more ad-hoc metrics, but found it hard to pull info like this out of the existing data. ACTION: Amanda send Shane the data from the gender question linked to the RIPE 76 registration process. ACTION: Amanda to ask Martina to have the gender question actually integrated into the registration software rather than via a third-party tool + ask RIPE NCC legal about any GDPR ramifications Shane added that he will give an update in the WG Chair Lunch AOB if time allows to see how they can use the data he's collecting for their working groups. There was a discussion in the group about how the metrics don't take into account the diversity (or lack thereof) of leadership roles in the RIPE community - specifically, the RIPE Programme Committee and the Working Group Chairs. This is something that the TF should start addressing. Brian noted that there aren't that many women in leadership roles currently. Ingrid asked if there was data on how many women commented at the mics. There isn't but the group agreed it would be good to gather this data, let's think about the best way to do it. Shane mentioned that he'd done some software tweaking to try and make better guesses of gender based on the names. He's still working on it, will be on GitHub soon. Vesna said that she would like it noted that we are aware of the binary issue (Male identified names, female-identified names) and we will go from there, it's a starting point. Mentoring at RIPE Meetings Amanda gave an update on mentoring. They been doing it for the RIPE Fellowship for the past two meetings and it's worked well, but it's all done ad hoc and it's quite a lot of work. She would like to implement a more formal and automated process for getting experienced RIPE community members on board. She's working on a project plan currently and the plan is to launch this in time for RIPE 77. Ingrid mentioned that she was speaking with a young woman who was intimidated going to socials. Amanda said that this isn't the first time that they've heard comments like this - which is why she thinks it's really important to start fostering allies at meetings so intimidating behaviour can be recognised more easily. Outreach for local tech community The TF efforts to engage more actively with the local tech community in France were not so successful. Brian mentioned that it would be much easier to do this in Amsterdam. Amanda mentioned that she tried very hard to get some French women working in tech to speak at the Women in Tech lunch but no luck. Sara commented that at Europol, they aim to get at least 30% of women at their conference. Mirjam mentioned that we could consider making it it a requirement that slots need to be occupied by a certain number of women. Denesh commented that it can be a real challenge. At UKNOF, 50% of the presentation submissions in general are rejected, so they don't have a lot of female presentation submissions to consider. Ingrid asked if there were ever duo-presentations and if not, perhaps it's an idea to encourage frequent RIPE Meeting presenters to bring a female colleague on the stage to co-present with them. Cristian suggested that perhaps the RIPE PC and WG Chairs could be proactive about asking their contacts for female presenters. Vesna mentioned that many conferences provide funding to bring in more female presenters. The financial barrier is often a factor. Amanda commented that the RIPE Fellowship provides funding to attend and perhaps it would be good to market this more towards potential female speakers. AOBs ACTION: Vesna will schedule the next TF meeting. Sara asked to have a meeting with the RIPE Diversity TF and Europol's Diversity TF. In 2019, they are organising a conference on diversity. They have budget to fund presenters. ACTION: Vesna - organise meeting with Sara. Cristian mentioned having a 'companion' ticket - discounted ticket for people to bring their partners to events. Denesh asked why the RIPE NCC explicitly mentioned not having kids on the conference floor on the childcare page. Amanda explained that when they announced they would be doing childcare at the last RIPE Meeting, they received a few negative comments from attendees imagining kids running around the meeting, so that text was added to just set expectations. Mirjam complimented Denesh on UKNOF's diversity and inclusion efforts and suggested that he give a presentation about this at RIPE 77. *Open Actions* ACTION: Amanda send Shane the data from the gender question linked to the RIPE 76 registration process. ACTION: Amanda to ask Martina to have the gender question actually integrated into the registration software rather than via a third-party tool + ask RIPE NCC legal about any GDPR ramifications ACTION: Vesna will schedule the next TF meeting ACTION: Vesna - organise meeting with Sara

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RIPE 76 "corrected" gender stats
by Shane Kerr 17 May '18

17 May '18

Hello, As I mentioned in the diversity ad-hoc meeting this week I have been tweaking the tool I use to estimate gender of RIPE meeting attendees. I finished these tweaks and have some (hopefully) corrected results. Just to re-cap, the idea is to look at the first name of the people on the attendee list and guess if they are a woman or man based on that. For example "Martina" is probably a woman and "Tim" is probably a man. The tweaks were: * Not trying to guess the gender of single-letter first names, like "A" or "P." (I assume these are abbreviations and not actually people named "N" or the like, and we do not have enough information to make any guesses). * Splitting off the first name of a compound name. So while the name API doesn't know that Thor-Henrik is most likely a man, it does have an opinion about Thor. * Going through the names that the API does not know and see if we can figure out the gender based on other things. This includes looking up information online (for example in directories of baby names) and also recording names of people that I have met (Rudiger, Maldwyn, Denesh, Olafur, Iratxze, and so on). The overall picture doesn't change too much: on average we have 0.25% fewer women at each RIPE meeting, although in more recent meetings the correction is in the other direction. I have updated with the latest information from the RIPE 76 meeting page, and attached the "corrected" versions of: 1. A graph showing percentage of men & women at each meeting 2. A graph showing just the percentage of women at each meeting, along with a trend line 3. A graph with the percentage of women at each meeting, with the trend line extrapolated to the magical day where 50% of attendees are women 4. My scratch spreadsheet for all of this I've also updated the GitHub: https://github.com/shane-kerr/ripemtggender Now I'm late to the RIPE dinner, but totally worth it. 😉 Cheers, -- Shane

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FW: @EXT: RIPE Diversity Task Force
by Brian Nisbet 14 May '18

14 May '18

Folks, Please see below from Sara Veronica Marcolla from Europol. I think it would be very useful if she could join us. I don't think we agreed a meeting time? Does something at breakfast time suit? Tuesday or Wednesday would suit me best for this. Thanks, Brian Brian Nisbet Network 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 From: Marcolla, Sara Veronica <Sara.Marcolla(a)europol.europa.eu> Sent: Wednesday 2 May 2018 10:36 To: Brian Nisbet <brian.nisbet(a)heanet.ie> Subject: @EXT: RIPE Diversity Task Force Hello Brian, I am contacting you with regards a totally different matter than usual: I am one of the representatives of Europol's Diversity committee, whose aim is to increase diversity in our workplace. I was wondering if I could meet with some of the Diversity people at RIPE to see if we can learn from your experience and perhaps synergise for the future (we are planning a Diversity event at Europol later this year). Kind regards, Sara V. Marcolla Specialist - EC3 Internet Governance EUCTF Secretariat European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) Tel: +31 (0) 70 353 10 44 Mobile: +31 06460 73015 E- mail: sara.marcolla(a)europol.europa.eu<mailto:sara.marcolla@europol.europa.eu> www.europol.europa.eu/ec3<http://www.europol.europa.eu/ec3> EUROPOL UNCLASSIFIED - BASIC PROTECTION LEVEL ******************* DISCLAIMER : This message is sent in confidence and is only intended for the named recipient. If you receive this message by mistake, you may not use, copy, distribute or forward this message, or any part of its contents or rely upon the information contained in it. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail and delete the relevant e-mails from any computer. This message does not constitute a commitment by Europol unless otherwise indicated. *******************

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Increasing inclusion, not only diversity (an article)
by Vesna Manojlovic 29 Apr '18

29 Apr '18

Hi, I find this article interesting and relevant for our efforts: https://medium.com/samsung-internet-dev/help-someone-has-pointed-out-my-con… Of course, there are differences: she is writing mostly about _developers_ conferences, and smaller ones too, organised by volunteers -- but there is quite an overlap, and similarities are greater then the differences, IMO - so this is what I got as tips , that we can learn from: > Don’t ask people from underrepresented background to help you with > your diversity work for free, their work has value. > > People who are underrepresented in tech are often also underpaid in > tech. Being expected to work for free compounds these issues. Ensure > that the people working to diversify your community are fairly > compensated for their labor. I think that RIPE NCC/RIPE meetings are doing some good things in this respect: - we payed for the training of the "trusted contacts" - we subsidize RACI candidates (young, academic, from less wealthy countries) and fellows (newcomers to the community) - we are offering childcare We can think about what else can we do to improve in this area. Next, she identifies 4 different categories of important "actors" (organisers, speakers, volunteers, participants), and says : > By changing only one aspect, such as the speakers, the diversity > issues of the conference have not been solved, We are trying hard to improve the diversity of speakers and participants -- and to measure our progress -- and it's a good thing that we do; but, as Mirjam also pointed out -- we need to do better when it comes to "organisers" (Programme Committee) and "volunteers" (WG Chairs). Then there is a matter of general inequalities in the society, mirrored by the tech-industry, such as: > To have this time available is to be very privileged. We can not be expected to fix _all_ of the social problems, but we can consider doing this more often: > providing a speakers fee for any speaker you have asked to speak from > an underrepresented minority. I'm aware that this suggestion would spark a discussion, specially about "meritocracy" and "experts" and "quality", but personally I am not going to engage in this on the list - I am assuming we agree on the staring position that it is valuable to the RIPE Community if the diversity & inclusion are increased, and we are only talking about *how*, not _if_ we should aim at that goal. Vesna

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