Folks, I have a dear friend who needs to have their French educational credentials evaluated by a service accredited by the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES).
There's a big ol listing at https://www.naces.org/members but I'm looking for a recommendation based on personal experience.
Seeking a reliable service that can do a fairly rapid turnaround! Any tips? (Boosts welcome!)
Ah, yes. The FOSS event with no Health & Safety practices has been scheduled immediately after a superspreader event, again.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
If your event has a Code of Conduct but no Health & Safety policy, you're missing the point of Codes of Conduct.
#HealthAndSafety #CodeOfConduct #COVID #FOSS #OpenSource #FOSDEM #OpenUK
Whew. And that's a wrap on my second week as the publicly announced Managing Director of The Matrix.org Foundation.
Gotta say, it's a great fit for my ADHD need for novelty – so many different things that need doing! :ablobcatneon:
Rather than rolling up all the many skills into "non-code," we need to unpack it.
Think about who the audience is. Are we trying to attract designers? SAY SO! Are we trying to attract technical writers? SAY SO!
As a community and nonprofit professional, you can be sure I won't feel welcome or valued if my skill sets get rolled up in a massive category defining me by what I am supposedly not.
Open source community leaders in particular need to step it up here.
#OpenSource
One last toot on this thread for now. Because seriously.
Would we think it reasonable to write a blog post with the titles like "attracting not-men into open source" or "bringing non-Americans into open source" and expect women, enbies, and the entire rest of the globe to read that and feel welcome?
No, and this is no different.
The anti-pattern isn't just defining people by what they're not, but also in opposition to a dominating or overrepresented group rather than on their own merits.
I've been raising issues with the phrases "non-code contributor" or "non-technical contributor" for at least a couple of years now.
And yet to this day I continue to see people of good will giving presentations and writing blog posts using that framing.
When will we learn that defining people by what they are not* is not a valid pathway to inclusion?
(* caveat because "non-technical contributors" are absolutely technical. It's a BS phrase.)
#OpenSource #FLOSS #FOSS
Rather than rolling up all the many skills into "non-code," we need to unpack it.
Think about who the audience is. Are we trying to attract designers? SAY SO! Are we trying to attract technical writers? SAY SO!
As a community and nonprofit professional, you can be sure I won't feel welcome or valued if my skill sets get rolled up in a massive category defining me by what I am supposedly not.
Open source community leaders in particular need to step it up here.
#OpenSource
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