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2020 Collegeville Workshop on Scientific Software Developer Productivity Teatime Submission.
This virtual Tea(m) Time will be the beginning of a conversation about how inclusion in HPC/CSE, and specifically racial/ethnic inclusion, impacts scientific software productivity.
Given the recent protests and racial awakening in the country, I think many of us have been asking ourselves what we can do to help address ethnic and inclusivity inequities in our projects and organizations. I myself have been wanting to know how I can be more proactive, instead of passive, about helping my professional community address this issue and make forward progress.
Inclusion takes many forms with various focal points including race, gender, gender-identity, LGBTQIA, religion and age to name a few. Furthermore, we are affected by issues in these areas in all aspects of our lives, not just those aspects having to do within our professional community as scientific software developers.
Because race and ethnicity are rarely, if ever, discussed within the context of scientific software development or even the broader institutional cultures in which that work goes on, conversations on these topics can be challenging, uncomfortable and even painful. This is something for which great care, respect and understanding are needed to handle properly.
To partially address the above concerns, and as naïve as this may sound, this Tea(m) Time proposes to focus mostly on ethnic inclusion and mostly on its impact and role within the context of scientific software productivity. Although the proposed scope is narrowly focused, admittedly artificially so, we all may be very surprised to learn just how deep and nuanced this topic winds up being even within this narrow scope.
In all likelihood, any one of the participants will be more informed on the issues than me, the organizer. So, my hope is to simply help to start a discussion and to serve as a moderator but to otherwise encourage dialogue and discussion from other participants and to capture key take-aways.
To help set the stage and stimulate discussion, participants are asked to consider reviewing at least three of the resources listed below prior to attending the Tea(m) Time and then come ready and willing to listen and share.
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