llvm dev - Feb 2020 - EuroLLVM'20: Diversity and Inclusion in Compilers and Tools workshop announcement

Hi All,

It's my pleasure to announce the Diversity and Inclusion in Compilers and
Tools workshop that will be held on the afternoon of April 5th, at the same
venue as the EuroLLVM'20.

This event features speakers and discussion aiming to increase diversity
and inclusion within the LLVM community, attendee's workplace or
university, and within the field of compilers and tools. It is open to
anyone who is interested in these efforts.

Our featured speaker will be Adelina Chalmers, also known as the Geek
Whisperer, and she will be giving a talk entitled *"Don’t Let Fear of
Feedback Stop your Contributions: How to Respond to Negative Feedback"*.

More information about the workshop and registration can be found here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eurollvm-2020-diversity-inclusion-workshop-tickets-94343837959

Hope to see you there !
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Arnaud
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Hi Arnaud,

The keynote speaker at the WiCT workshop at the US DevMeeting (whose 
excellent talk still does not appear to be online) began her talk by 
asking why it was not part of the main program and was instead part of a 
segregated session.  No one in the room had a good answer and everyone I 
spoke to agreed that it was an excellent question and the feedback to 
the Foundation from the event was to incorporate these as tracks or 
keynotes in the main event in the future.

So I now have the same question: why, if we want to foster an inclusive 
community, are we segregating people who are giving talks about inclusion?

David

On 19/02/2020 22:49, Arnaud Allard de Grandmaison via llvm-dev
wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> It's my pleasure to announce the Diversity and Inclusion in Compilers 
> and Tools workshop that will be held on the afternoon of April 5th, at 
> the same venue as the EuroLLVM'20.
> 
> This event features speakers and discussion aiming to increase diversity 
> and inclusion within the LLVM community, attendee's workplace or 
> university, and within the field of compilers and tools. It is open to 
> anyone who is interested in these efforts.
> 
> Our featured speaker will be Adelina Chalmers, also known as the Geek 
> Whisperer, and she will be giving a talk entitled /"Don’t Let Fear of 
> Feedback Stop your Contributions: How to Respond to Negative
Feedback"/.
> *
> *
> More information about the workshop and registration can be found here: 
>
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eurollvm-2020-diversity-inclusion-workshop-tickets-94343837959
> *
> *
> Hope to see you there !
> --
> Arnaud
> 
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This is a fair point which is not ignored despite what it may look like.

The EuroLLVM is effectively 2.5 days long, but we don't want to force
everyone to be there for 2.5 days when we know the workshop might not
interest everyone. Of course, we could also fit everything in 2 days, but
that would mean selecting less talks, which with a growing community with
more and more projects, just sounds like a bad idea. Or we could start
earlier in the morning ... but I've heard some people complaining about the
early start ;-) The workshop is open to people outside the conference and
is advertised as a separate event as this makes it easier to manage in
terms of organisation. Besides, the advantage of having a separate --- the
use of  'segregating' is deliberately provocative here --- session is
that
it does not compete with any technical tracks (should I attend that talk or
the workshop ?) and that motivated volunteers will attend it without
dropping any technical talk.

On the same line, we have the newcomers event in the .5 preceding day ---
it's not as inclusive as I would like it to be (presumably only a portion
of the newcomers can attend the day before), but that's the only available
slot we have if we want to welcome them with a small committee (instead of
with the full and intimidating community around).
--
Arnaud

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 10:39 AM David Chisnall via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> Hi Arnaud,
>
> The keynote speaker at the WiCT workshop at the US DevMeeting (whose
> excellent talk still does not appear to be online) began her talk by
> asking why it was not part of the main program and was instead part of a
> segregated session.  No one in the room had a good answer and everyone I
> spoke to agreed that it was an excellent question and the feedback to
> the Foundation from the event was to incorporate these as tracks or
> keynotes in the main event in the future.
>
> So I now have the same question: why, if we want to foster an inclusive
> community, are we segregating people who are giving talks about inclusion?
>
> David
>
> On 19/02/2020 22:49, Arnaud Allard de Grandmaison via llvm-dev wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > It's my pleasure to announce the Diversity and Inclusion in
Compilers
> > and Tools workshop that will be held on the afternoon of April 5th, at
> > the same venue as the EuroLLVM'20.
> >
> > This event features speakers and discussion aiming to increase
diversity
> > and inclusion within the LLVM community, attendee's workplace or
> > university, and within the field of compilers and tools. It is open to
> > anyone who is interested in these efforts.
> >
> > Our featured speaker will be Adelina Chalmers, also known as the Geek
> > Whisperer, and she will be giving a talk entitled /"Don’t Let
Fear of
> > Feedback Stop your Contributions: How to Respond to Negative
Feedback"/.
> > *
> > *
> > More information about the workshop and registration can be found
here:
> >
>
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eurollvm-2020-diversity-inclusion-workshop-tickets-94343837959
> > *
> > *
> > Hope to see you there !
> > --
> > Arnaud
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > LLVM Developers mailing list
> > llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
> > https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev
> >
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