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Write pinned post for Mastodon
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Edit sign-up sheet:
- remove Twitter, add Fediverse
- substitute 'birth sex' with 'gender assigned at birth'
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Organise a speaker series.
- Ella has list (not for public repo) of possible speakers
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Website updates:
- Add events page
- Add contact details, add tech.lgbt, remove twitter
- Template for blog posts
- Light and dark modes
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GitHub home page, including CoC
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Elicit posts for blog (once there's a template and workflow for that)
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Relaunch TidyRainbow
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Can we have a meetup page? If so, under what organisation?
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Partnerships with other communities - Rladies, MiR, AI-inclusive, Queer in AI
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Think about forming a committee
- what roles?
- how to recruit?
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Add an organisation repo and create an issue template for organising/promoting meet-ups (see https://github.com/WarwickRUG/organization)
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Update visual identity?
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Organise a mini-conference
- Take inspiration from DSxD conference, as well as https://www.hytradboi.com - two very different approaches.
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Organise a hackathon (think about a suitable project for one)
- Perhaps tie in with TidyRainbow
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Do something to revitalise the Slack, perhaps a discusion group?
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Do more with Mastodon - make sure people turn on notifications for the account
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Newsletter
- email notices about meetups
- set up {blastula}
- further automate the process with {googlesheets4}
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Promote the work of RainbowR members
- Ad hoc or something more structured?
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Support sessions
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Reading group (if suitable book found)
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Move this to-do list to a series of GitHub issues
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rainbowR buddy program
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rainbowR mentor program
- Basic idea: get people who want to be mentored (with something specific), people willing to be mentors (with specific things they're willing to mentor on) and pair up suitable pairs.
- Inspired by rOpenSci Champions programme (though would be much smaller and looser)
- Speak to Yani about how this might work.
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rainbowR tie-in and/or event at useR::2024?
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Co-working sessions, taking inspiration from rOpenSci