[PSF-Community] Reporting Code of Conduct violations

[Carol Willing]

On 5 May 2016, at 10:31, Chris Calloway wrote:

> On 5/4/16 4:12 PM, Don Sheu wrote:
>> I'm in the process of instituting guidelines for handling Code of
>> Conduct reports with my group in Seattle, PuPPy. First step is
>> recruiting a diverse committee. Unfortunately, currently our 
>> organizing
>> team is overwhelmingly male. Last thing I want is for a Code of 
>> Conduct
>> procedure where a member who's not white or male is facing a process 
>> run
>> entirely by white males.
>
> Don,
>
> The hardest part of diversity is attempting to diversify an already 
> non-diverse group. I searched for a long time for how to do this. 
> Finally, after watching the Code: Debugging the Gender Gap 
> documentary, I got a clue, applied it, and it worked. The secret is 
> pro-action. You must go out and specifically and specially invite 
> people individually, and invite them not just to participate, but to 
> lead. I did this for the PyData Carolinas conference coming up this 
> fall and it worked so well that the majority of people on our board of 
> organizers are female and twenty percent are non-white:
>
> http://pydata.org/carolinas2016/about/organizers/
>
> I went to PyLadies and other groups and asked for their help. They 
> responded with several highly qualified Python data scientists. I 
> didn't just ask for volunteers. I approached them each individually, 
> told them each why their qualifications are needed, and invited them 
> to come take the reigns of various conference committees. You can get 
> diversity. You just have to work at it and not wait for it to come to 
> you. You must reach out and reach out specifically to individuals, 
> recruiting each with an offer of leadership.
>
> -- 
> Sincerely,
>
> Chris Calloway, Applications Analyst
> UNC Renaissance Computing Institute
> 100 Europa Drive, Suite 540, Chapel Hill, NC 27517
> (919) 599-3530
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Chris,

Thank you for sharing what worked for you and PyData Carolinas. Your 
thoughtfulness, genuine interest, and action are a good model of what 
does work.

Your experience would make a helpful blog post, lightning talk at PyCon, 
SciPy, or a regional conference. Take care and thank you!

Warmly,

Carol

Carol Willing
Research Software Engineer, Project Jupyter @ Cal Poly
Director, Python Software Foundation