DEI Celebration Events for 2023/2024

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• Come up with list of special celebration events and some ideas for these
  Juneteenth, black history month, women’s history month, hispanic heritage month, Indigenous People’s Day (See spreadsheet for more potential events
• Calendar for these events
• Ask community about what DEI Celebration Events we want to do moving forward

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Steps the community can do for "Ask community about what DEI Celebration Events we want to do moving forward":

• Find other t-shirt providers (e.g. https://www.stickermule.com/products/custom-t-shirts)
• Coming up with language for asking the community about the potential celebration events (Some one else could post on Slack, etc.)
• Sign up to host a media club topics
• Sign up to write a blog post for the event

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Created a forum to ask for volunteers that was going to be used in the SC '23 conference US-RSE table.

Maybe should look into signupgenius.com

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Some notes from 11/8/23 meeting:

• Should we create a list of next year’s events that could be displayed at SC conference, similar to what UIC had when we entered the Student Building
  • Frame it with “are you interested” format; Give people a way to express interest in contributing to the celebration; Use our WG email list, maybe create a google form for responses (with QR code), provide your email sheet,
• We should organize some outreach for Black History month
• Each community call we should set aside a short time for recognition of the month’s celebration; 1 or 2 slides?
  • History of the month
• Maybe a yearly community call about all the celebration events
• We could encourage folks to do spotlights or presentations centering those communities
  • Similar to what we did with the Pride Month celebration
  • Create an infrastructure/platform for this so that our community can easily contribute
  • We should reach out to our community months in advance to help gather participation and interest
• Create a landing page for this initiative - Landing page for DEI Celebration Events #32
  • Need to determine a more formal name for this
    • Diversity Awareness Calendar
    • Diversity Awareness Campaign

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Some notes from 1/17/24 meeting:

• We have a list of “deadlines” for the Black History Month celebration event
  • We added some entries to the list of people to write blog posts about
  • Some ideas for this, or future months:
    • Fun competition to create or AI generate a image to represent the months/event

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Notes from 02/14/24 meeting:

• We need to make sure to create social media announcements for our blog posts
• From out LinkedIn post about celebrating Black History Month, I reduced this to

  • US-RSE Celebrates Black History
    https://buff.ly/3SmlMOI
    Throughout the month, US-RSE members will share stories that recognize and celebrate African Americans who have been involved in STEM and have inspired our members through their accomplishments.
    #BlackHistoryMonth