Communicating Inclusion

[drnikki]

https://drupal-diversity.gitbooks.io/drupal-organizer-resources/content/manuscript/communicating-inclusion/communicating-inclusion.html

We need a list of strategies to help organizers talk about inclusion. These should include at least:

• the copy they use on their website/marketing materials
• the people represented in their imagery/stock photos

A format for this page may be:

• why communicating inclusion is important
• categories of ways we communicate what our event stands for (including inclusion)
• specific, actionable checkboxes organizers can use to check their work

[sugaroverflow]

A visual way that really resonated with me during DC New Orleans was during the presentation at the closing ceremony. There was a series of slides with really nice visual graphics that displayed statistics about the conference - genders of the speakers, how many people attended, from where in the world people were from, & even how much coffee was consumed :)

If an event isn't running for the first time, it might be interesting to have those statistics from the previous year. An actionable item might be to increase one or two of those statistics? Or have some meaningful conversations with their attendees to gain some insight about the stats.

[drnikki]

@sugaroverflow your idea is directly related to #9 - I think at the very least a visual representation of the statistics of attendees may be useful and we could easily provide a template that they could fill out.