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Core Team Meeting 2022-04-29

Attendance

Present: Zane (She/They), Heather Turner (she/her), Emma Rand (she/her), gwynn (she/her), Kevin O'Brien, Liz Hare, Ben Ortiz-Ulloa Absent:

Minutes

-- how to get minorities more involved, not burden them, not have them become a token, find out what their needs are, how they can further contribute to Forwards

-- confidence is a factor and "imposter syndrome"

  • try to avoid having person burning out

Core team/General

Lift these voices

  • People resigning from RForwards and how to better involve people from marginalized groups

  • Disabled in STEM talk at conferences

  • Another level or membership in RForwards? Would that have helped Becca?

  • Aimee Sue Dunlap - some sort of disability in STEM

  • KO: general inertia as a result of pandemic in terms of getting volunteers. But Forwards can act as a resource, e.g. helping with logistics with Namibia R User Group.

  • Perhaps we should include another question in the survey "What needs do disabled people in the R community need?"

  • Panel at an academic conference to talk about being disabled in STEM

  • Video of talks that they've given before, show up and answer questions at the end, e.g. 10 minute talk by Becca: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp4vkK_QaE8&list=PL9LY1bVcxGJd8QhKQYgWd7jtArqrxw7oO&index=17

  • Slackathon May 16 - 19; @charliejhadley & Becca, reach out to MiR, AfricaR, RCDIWG, RLadies, Ben Ortiz-Ulloa, Jacqueline Nolis

  • unconf - a few round tables to allow anyone to chip in. -- Liza Hare : need to clarify what the needs are, find funding for their expertise, low amount of time and high need for funds and recognition of contributions

  • clarify tasks that need doing and apply for funding (small grants). E.g. via code for science and society. People can join project vs joining a team.

-- "what do you want to see in R ?" /

-- R LGBTQ https://pythoncoderunicorn.github.io/rlgbtq.github.io/ this website needs some redoing but is improvement over original broken website

Benjamin Ortiz Ulloa will grant permissions for all accounts and will post in the Slack for RainbowR (original)

Panel for useR! 2022 of minority voices, work on it during the slackathon

ACTIONS

Accessibility

Jonathan awarded: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2112/S00711/blind-advocate-dr-jonathan-godfrey-awarded-onzm.htm

Also working on a grant https://rpubs.com/nzgwynn/alt-text_ggplot from R Consortium

-- ggPattern R package is now on CRAN which helps for visual accessibility, posted in Forwards Slack Accessibility