[Grants] [LACTTE] Grant Request: Funding for Code of Conduct Incident Response Training

Fri May 4 09:17:52 AEST 2018

Hi Katie,

This has been placed onto the Council agenda for the meeting after the 2
week community consultation period. This meeting is currently scheduled to
be held on Thursday 24th of May.

Thanks!

Sae Ra

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 8:33 AM, Katie McLaughlin <katie at glasnt.com> wrote:

> ## Aim
>
> This funding request will fund one remote training session for Code of
> Conduct Incident Response from Otter Technologies for up to 10 members of
> the organising teams from under the umbrella of Linux Australia events.
>
> ## Rationale
>
> Linux Australia requests that event subcommittees have a Code of Conduct
> for their event.
>
> This is a good first step to ensure a safe and inclusive conference for
> attendees.
>
> In the event that incidents occur at a conference, there needs to be
> knowledge on the ground from members of an Incident Response Team (aka
> Conduct Team) in the basics of how to handle an incident: attendee care,
> resolution practices, liability, reporting process, anonymity processes,
> aftercare.
>
> Conduct teams have been present at PyCon AU 2016, PyCon AU 2017,
> linux.conf.au 2017 and linux.conf.au 2018. However, members of this
> teams, to the best of my knowledge, have never undertaken formal training
> for this role
>
> By having this training undertaken by members of the community of various
> Linux Australia conferences, we can seed the knowledge of how to take the
> next step in ensuring active attendee safety at Linux Australia events.
>
> Note: this training is one of two training session offered. A “Train the
> Trainers” session is is a separate course, quote and additional grant
> request pending, which would allow attendees of both sessions to then have
> the knowledge to train their own Conduct teams. This would allow for a
> larger pool of trained persons to attend more events and be a part of more
> Conduct teams.
>
> ## Success
>
> Attendees undertaking training will be able to take the skills learnt and
> CC-BY materials provided and use them to ensure their own events have
> trained Incident Response members who can serve on Conduct teams in order
> to ensure attendee safety.
>
> Attendees have also been chosen as they are “serial conference attendees”,
> so their skills can be of service across a number of events for years to
> come.
>
> ## Costs Breakdown
>
> The training is as follows:
>
> Name: Code of Conduct Incident Response
> Provider: Otter Technologies
> https://otter.technology/code-of-conduct-training/
>
> Cost:* $3,500 USD* for up to 10 attendees in one remote session
>
> *Note: the training can have up to 14 attendees, but 8 - 10 is the normal
> size of groups. Given this is a specific request by specific people, we are
> limiting the attendees to 10*
>
> ## Training details:
>
> The training provided comprises of a 3 - 4 hour session, split across
> group and pair activities, relating to incident response overviews, pair
> role-play of reporting and receiving an incident report, and take-home
> materials including Incident Response forms (CC licensed)
>
> Trainer: Sage Sharp
>
> ## Testimonial
>
> Sam Kimbrel, North Bay Python Organiser, PyCon AU 2016 Speaker
>
> > Sage’s organizer training clearly outlined the core responsibilities an
> event team
> > has towards its attendees, staff, speakers, and volunteers, and offered
> concrete
> > steps to handle these responsibilities in a safe, sustainable fashion.
> There are myriad
> > pitfalls in actually implementing a strong code of conduct and we felt
> much more
> > confident in our ability to avoid as many as we could after the training.
>
> ## Attendees
>
> This grant request allows for one remote training session for up to ten
> people. The following eight people are requesting these funds. There is
> still room for two more attendees, should anyone else be interested in
> attending
>
> * Katie McLaughlin, PyCon AU 2018 Chair
> * Katie Bell, PyCon AU 2018 Co-Chair
> * Russell Keith-Magee, PyCon AU 2018 Treasurer
> * Jack Skinner, PyCon AU 2018 Volunteer Coordinator
> * Lilly Ryan, PyCon AU 2018 Paper’s Chair
> * James Polley, linux.conf.au 2018 Co-Chair, Linux Australia Board Member
> 2018
> * Donna Benjamin, Drupal South, Rusty Wrench Award 2013
> * Craige McWhirter, linux.conf.au 2017 Co-Chair
>
> Should only these eight attend, the grant would be $3,500USD / 8 ~=
> AUD$600 per attendee.
>
> An additional two attendees will bring that number down to ~AUD$470 per
> attendee
>
> ## Contact
>
> Katie McLaughlin will be the point of contact for this grant request, and
> is willing to provide a  post-training report to Council.
>
> Katie was a member of the PyCon AU 2016 and linux.conf.au 2017 Conduct
> Teams, and is the Chair for PyCon AU 2018, 2019
>
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Sae Ra GermaineSecretary
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