Good point. It’s something I’m concerned about here. I think we should go ahead with the office hours regardless, but we need a separate, targeted effort to help bring more diversity to this and other Pangeo interaction points.
At the #ShutDownSTEM brainstorming session, a couple of concrete ideas stood out:
- Direct invitations to individual POC to join (requires having some ideas about who you want to invite)
- Outreach through HBCUs, e.g. via geoscience, geography, or computer science departments.
Both could be effective here.