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Code4Lib Increasing Diversity in our Community
The document discusses diversity issues within the Code4Lib conference, highlighting that the 2016 speaker pool was predominantly male and non-diverse. It emphasizes the need for immediate action to improve outreach, recruitment, and the submission process to encourage greater diversity. Suggested changes include reevaluating title and content layout during the submission process.
Code4Lib Increasing Diversity in our Community
- 1. #Code4LibProgramSoWhite This is theProgramCommittee – 2016!
- 2. “maybe caring isn’tgood enough” C4L 2016 speakers: ~55% men ~53% Reasearch/Uni ~90% US, ~8% Canada ~<1% non-white (best guess from photo visual) Quote from Andromeda Yelton
- 3. Code4Lib has abug. How do we fix it? • Take action now. • Outreach • Recruitment • Funding • Submission process
- 4. Why do wehave this problem?
- 5. Outreach Don’t let itbe a missed opportunity.
- 6. Increase diversity insubmissions.
- 7. In house changes:submission process (ideas?)
- 8. Title and contentlayout with SmartArt Task description Step 1 Title Task description Step 2 Title Task description Step 3 Title