lengarvey

Some actions we can take to help improve diversity

1. Revise our code of conduct. Some aspects of it are problematic for people (myself included). I'll raise an issue on this shortly.
2. Develop an action plan to help organisers of events deal with incidents. See: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassment/Responding_to_reports
3. Get some members of our community to take a training course on how to deal with incidents properly. Something like: http://www.nswrapecrisis.com.au/Training.aspx could be appropriate. This will help in dealing with any incidents properly. It will also mean that people will have more trust that we will respond to incidents properly.
4. Announce the names of contact persons/duty officers before events such as RailsCamp and RubyConf.
5. Keep working on bulding mentoring programs for new developers along the lines of RailsGirls/Installfest/DevelopmentHub. We need Australian-local equivalents of RailsBridge, DevChix, TransHack etc. Some of this needs to be owned by

pat

Composing this into a single tweet is impossible…

What I think we all want:

• A Rails Camp that is welcoming to newcomers and old hands alike; and
• A ticket process that is reasonably simple and does not require a large amount of time from organisers (they are volunteers!).

Either of these things alone is difficult, and combining both is clearly challenging.

As I’ve mentioned on Twitter already, there’s been some discussion about evolving the ballot process (mainly with regards to when CC details are collected, but expanding for groups is another option), and this could be an excellent project at this upcoming Rails Camp.