# Sustain DEI WG meeting summary: Nov 10th 2023
**URL:** https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/sustain-dei-wg-meeting-summary-nov-10th-2023/1426
**Category:** DEI
**Tags:** sustain
**Created:** [November 13, 2023, 12:39pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/sustain-dei-wg-meeting-summary-nov-10th-2023/1426 "2023-11-13T12:39:35Z")
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### Author:  [@Anita\_Ihuman](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/Anita_Ihuman)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2023, 12:39pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/sustain-dei-wg-meeting-summary-nov-10th-2023/1426/1 "2023-11-13T12:39:35Z")
Hello everyone!
Here’s a summary of our meeting from Friday 10th November,
The main topic was setting up a governance structure for the working group, choosing a more suitable communication channel, and initiating the first project.
Here are the key takeaways:
- Using Discourse or Slack for community communication: We settled with creating a Discourse category for this WG so we can start discussions using the
- Using Jupyter Notebook to curate a landscape of existing DEI resources and programs for easy referencing to OSS communities. We have starting curating a list of resources using g Etherpad [OpenDev Etherpad](https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/DEI-doc)
- We discussed how to identify and define clear roles and guidelines for this WG.
Action Items:
- Add in any DEI guides, resources, or programs, you are familiar with for the DEI Landscape Document [here](https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/DEI-doc)
- Develop a document that outlines the role and WG guidelines.
- We now have a DEI WG Category on the Sustain discourse; [follow up with conversations there](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/c/dei/28).
You can refer to the meeting notes for the full discussions - Thanks to Richards & Anita for taking Notes: [Sustain DEI WG Discussions](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CszmRZbkQjzzQr34n0X7-mhVsA0t4tfMh-bWtrlOVu4/edit)
Additional feedback on these discussions are also welcome. If you have any comments/questions/remarks, please feel free to add them to the document.
Attendees: @RichardLitt, @Anita_Ihuman @jonatoni @Anna_Ayoung-Stoute @glauesppen @Ibiam
Next Call: **Friday, November 24th at 16:00pm UTC**
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### Author:  [@jwf](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/jwf)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 7:15pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/sustain-dei-wg-meeting-summary-nov-10th-2023/1426/2 "2023-11-22T19:15:59Z")
Hey, I am sorry to have missed this, but it is very exciting to see this group picking back up! I am seeing some familiar names in the attendee list. 🙂
I skimmed through the notes and saw there was a lot of conversation about governance. I may have missed it, but I was not clear on the purpose, vision, or goals for the revival of this working group. Is it clear what the working group wants to accomplish in the long-term? Is the focus on curating a general list of resources? How does this compare to the work done at Open Source Diversity or CHAOSS?
I am trying to understand better what this group wants to accomplish and if I can help support with my time and energy from the things we are doing over in the [Fedora DEI Team](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/dei/).
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### Author:  [@Anita\_Ihuman](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/Anita_Ihuman)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2023, 9:45am UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/sustain-dei-wg-meeting-summary-nov-10th-2023/1426/3 "2023-11-24T09:45:56Z")
Its cool Justin; we have another meeting today. You can join in and add a topic of interest as well: [Sustain DEI WG Discussions](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CszmRZbkQjzzQr34n0X7-mhVsA0t4tfMh-bWtrlOVu4/edit) To answer your questions, this WG was revived as a result of the feedback [received under this discussion](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/dei-in-sustain-understanding-the-universal-perspectives/1310).
So, in our last two meetings, we have discussed some [goals this WG will champion](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BtUq-aGzia1wQSd19a1dagZm2C1SXfMGj8SCbFP_5oY/edit), curating DEI resources being one of them.
We are open to more suggestions and would love to learn from your work at the [Fedora DEI Team](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/dei/).
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### Author:  [@jwf](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/jwf)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2023, 3:07pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/sustain-dei-wg-meeting-summary-nov-10th-2023/1426/4 "2023-12-06T15:07:52Z")
I am on a long stretch of time-off/vacation, so I missed the last one and I will also miss the next one. 😅 That said, I do want to keep following along here. I left some comments on the next agenda doc. I have the goals doc open too and will try to review it, but likely won’t get time until later in December.
I would be curious to get peoples’ thoughts on this recent article in the next meeting:
> **[An Open Letter to the Python Software Foundation](https://pythonafrica.blogspot.com/2023/12/an-open-letter-to-python-software_5.html)**
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> Dear PSF, We, organisers in the pan-African Python community, would like to raise some concerns and frustrations that have been brought to a...
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### Author:  [@Anita\_Ihuman](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/Anita_Ihuman)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2023, 7:18am UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/sustain-dei-wg-meeting-summary-nov-10th-2023/1426/5 "2023-12-07T07:18:22Z")
I thought this was an interesting topic that touches on a lot of angles Inclusivity in Open-source funding & grants, as well as location inclusivity. I’m looking to hear more thoughts on this as well.
Thanks for including this, Justin.