Team co-leads: Ella Kaye (community), Kevin O'Brien (Community), Heather Turner (chair)
Team members: Michael Lawrence (On-ramps), Zane Dax (Accessibility)
- Michael Lawrence: organizing some resources for managers in industry who are trying to hire diverse data science / R talent. Motivated by exeperience of hiring in Genentech. Colleague Allison Vuong will be joining On-ramps team and is interested to work on this. Could collate resources, or potentially create job board.
- Kevin: should try to leverage LinkedIn. R-Ladies groups in particular are starting to use it more. A panel discussion should be a good way to start off.
- Michael: is there a list of R-Ladies groups that have a LinkedIn presence?
- Zane: could be a task for a web scraper, to find jobs. Women who code and DataUmbrella do job aggregation.
- Michael: ideally would be a way to connect to people from underrepresented groups. Could compile list of orgs like Women who code etc. Create something that multiple companies can use. E.g. resume index.
- Zane: could use YouTubers to help spread the word.
- Heather: R-Ladies have been concerned in the past about seeming to endorse companies that may not be good places for people from marginalized groups to work.
- Michael: learn from other groups
- Heather: Women in HPC created a resource
ACTION:
- start pooling resources that we know of before December meeting in this file: https://github.com/forwards/Community/blob/master/diversity_hiring.md
- YouTube channels:, Discord channels, Slacks
- nice to have a "how to pass the interview at company X" being advertised
- gather ideas for a panel that we might hold in the spring
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Rainbow R
- rainbowR meetup scheduled for November 1st, registration link shared on Twitter (https://twitter.com/R_LGBTQ/status/1582673516830543874?s=20&t=tv_ifRzKVXiwKfWPyKrKew) and Slack (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1y7SOWE3IW-fpR_5Cd4mK-CMUpFZ-hvhY4cTj34JqTVE/viewform?edit_requested=true)
- https://github.com/r-lgbtq is now an organization (with EK as owner) rather than a 'personal' account through the [email protected] e-mail address.
- gglgbtq package now on CRAN, by Laura Bakala, inspired by previous rainbowR zoom meetup - colour palettes based on various pride flags. Blogged about on RainbowR site.
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Kevin has stepped back from Python Ireland so will shortly lose access to the webinar account, which he has been lending to R User Group e.g. in Botswana. May be some potential from R Consortium, but they prefer to work with established RUGs. Potential to upgrade R Foundation/Forwards one next year? Webinars allow better quality recording and also control over who speaks and who can share their screen.
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R Consortium are going to be more stringent on RUGs applying for support: must be active.
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gwynn has been busy with AfricaR, which is being driven forward by Anelda van der Walt. Running a meeting once a month.
ACTION: Heather to look into costs of Zoom webinar account.
- We have not recently ran any workshops or scheduled further ones
- The package development content is still pretty good and we could do a community call to see if others are interested in teaching it within their communities?
- Possibly suggest to AfricaR
- Zane: I have a repo on how to make a R package, the basics (if interested) - https://github.com/PythonCoderUnicorn/RpkgGuide
- Next Forwards Taskforce EMEA meeting will be 2022-01-27