#phpledge
What an honor! I'm thrilled to share that I'm a speaker at the first ever #FOSSY by @conservancy this July in Portland.
I'll be talking about event #HealthAndSafety policies and what the pandemic can teach us about taking our diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives to the next level. (Feat. the @phpledge!)
I can't wait to see the full lineup for the conference :ablobcatrave:
Learn more and get your ticket at https://2023.fossy.us/
@luckytran To prevent this in the future, CDC should join #PHPledge https://publichealthpledge.com/
We congratulate @northbaypython on making #NBPy 2023 the second #PHPledge badged event 👏
The team is doing admirable work to creatively reimagine their event in the pandemic era.
➡️ Masks: Robust Policy
➡️ Vaccines: Efforts Made
➡️ Tests: Efforts Made
➡️ Ventilation: Robust Policy
➡️ Alternatives: Efforts Made
Event: https://2023.northbaypython.org/
Health and Safety: https://2023.northbaypython.org/health-and-safety-policy
Badge Standard: https://publichealthpledge.com/badging
Today we are processing the 2nd ... 3rd (!) ... *and* 4th (!!) event badge applications.
Our Event Badging Standard gives organizers something concrete to aim for and makes it easier for participants to parse your #HealthAndSafety policy 🔎
Apply and our volunteers will review your materials, highlight achievable opportunities for improvement, issue a badge, and publicly celebrate your event!
Learn more and apply today: https://publichealthpledge.com/badging
We are committing to safer and more inclusive #events. You can too.
Learn more at https://publichealthpledge.com and take the pledge:
✍️ I am committed to diversity and inclusion, including people with disabilities, chronic illness, and caregivers, therefore I pledge to only participate in or organize events that have robust Health and Safety policies.
#CovidIsStillHere #Covid19 #PHPledge #PublicHealthPledge #HealthAndSafety
We're delighted to have received two badging applications from events this week! 🥳
The Public Health Pledge event badge helps both participants and organizers:
- participants can quickly parse the Health and Safety policy
- organizers get clear targets to aim for
Event badging is a free service our volunteer team offers. In the process, we review policies and offer suggestions that help organizers do even better within their constraints.
Learn more: https://publichealthpledge.com/badging
COVID remains a going concern, with millions of excess deaths globally and millions more having been disabled, including many who are no longer able to work.
Against this backdrop we ask:
Do we take the simple steps to protect each other and our communities, or hitch a ride to wishful thinking?
The 164 (and counting) signatories to #PHPledge all agree:
We can do better than wishful thinking.
Join us, take a stand for safer and more inclusive events: https://publichealthpledge.com
Our team has been a bit preoccupied navigating industry headwinds but the work continues.
We are currently advising several events on #HealthAndSafety policies and will be gearing up for a big push in Q3. We started this initiative knowing it would be a long haul. This is a year of establishing footholds and creating good examples for folks to follow.
Thank you for your solidarity.
Together we will make events safer and more inclusive!
Definitely stealing parts of the @auc COVID safety policy for @northbaypython's policy. Well-defined language, identifying commitments made by the organisers, and requirements and expectations of attendees.
https://auc.edu.au/policies/covid-safe-plan/ #phpledge #nbpy @phpledge
Hello from the #PHPledge team! It's 2023 week 12, and the work continues apace.
➡️ We are about to reach out to event organizer signatories to invite them to our badging program.
➡️ We have enough feedback on our v2023-01 badge standard to begin work on the next version.
➡️ New signatories continue to stand up in solidarity!
Keep sharing your concerns about #HealthAndSafety with organizers, and point them our way.
Together we'll make events safer and more inclusive 🤝
It's a great day! :party_sparkles:
Today the Public Health and Safety metric in the @chaoss event DEI badging initiative reached release candidate status. We're proud to have reached this milestone alongside Event Location Inclusivity, a timeline consideration.
As an established badging program, this will extend the reach of our work to raise the bar in event organizing 🚀
Details at:
➡️ https://chaoss.community/kb/metric-public-health-and-safety/
➡️ https://chaoss.community/kb/metric-event-location-inclusivity/
We have been taking steps to ensure that the #OpenInfraSummit Vancouver 2023 is a safe and inclusive environment by being the first event to take the Public Health Pledge!
Onsite Safety Precautions: https://openinfra.dev/summit/vancouver-2023/summit-onsite-safety/
Badge Standard: https://publichealthpledge.com/badging
The Public Health Pledge event badge distills a wide range of policies and practices into a set of grades. This helps attendees quickly assess an event against their own risk profile, and determine how to navigate that risk for themselves 😷
Another benefit:
Dialog with folks who've been working with many organizers on #HealthAndSafety! We can help you navigate sticky challenges and find opportunities to improve.
Apply for your event today ➡️ https://publichealthpledge.com/badging
We congratulate @OpenInfra on making #OpenInfraSummit Vancouver 2023 the first ever #PHPledge badged event 👏
The #OpenInfra team earned top marks in four of the five measures of our v2023-01 standard:
➡️ Masks: Robust Policy
➡️ Vaccines: Robust Policy
➡️ Tests: Efforts Made
➡️ Ventilation: Robust Policy
➡️ Alternatives: Robust Policy
Event: https://openinfra.dev/summit
Health and Safety: https://openinfra.dev/summit/vancouver-2023/summit-onsite-safety/
Badge Standard: https://publichealthpledge.com/badging
Hello from the #PHPledge team! It's 2023 week 9, and the work continues apace.
➡️ We're beginning to onboard more volunteers.
➡️ We just completed our first event badge review. More on that tomorrow!
➡️ Work on the @chaoss Public Health and Safety metric is complete, and is closer to being rolled out.
Thank you all for taking a stand.
Together we'll make events safer and more inclusive!
We're excited about our collaboration with @chaoss!
Their DEI event badging initiative has evaluated over 100 open source tech conferences since its launch in 2020. It's an evolving standard, and soon this evaluation will expand to include an assessment of event Public Health and Safety measures.
If you're organizing an event in open source, we encourage you to learn about the initiative and apply!
➡️ https://chaoss.community/diversity-and-inclusion-badging/
"Help! I signed the #PHPledge and didn't realize an event I planned to attend is in violation. What do I do?!"
Don't fret! Reach out to us.
We can help you navigate a tricky situation with integrity. There are creative ways to both connect with your community and be a shining example of what's possible.
Of course, none of that involves attending the violating event. Taking the pledge involves hard choices, and we appreciate your solidarity 🤝
Are you organizing an event? Do you want to signal to attendees that you care about their health?
Apply to our event badging process: https://publichealthpledge.com/badging 🏅
Our team reviews applications weekly, can help you spot opportunities for improvement, and will issue a badge you can use to help participants quickly assess and navigate risks for themselves.
And, given current climate, a #PHPledge badge will help your event stand out.
Hello, from the #PHPledge team! We deferred our weekly Monday meeting to soak up the US federal holiday.
But the wheels keep turning:
➡️ We're kicking the tires on our event badging process
➡️ Preparing to proactively recruit events to that badging process
➡️ Efforts to incorporate our work into @chaoss events DEI event badging continue apace
➡️ The first COVID-conscious fringe events we're aware of are coming together
We're very excited to hear rumblings of people organizing COVID conscious "fringe" events around big events that fail to deliver on health and safety.
This is just one of many ways we can come together and build a new consensus for safer and more inclusive events.
Some highlights from this week's #PHPledge team meeting:
➡️ Establishing how we run our event badging and review process
➡️ Preparing to incorporate feedback into the next version of the badging standard
➡️ Reviewing our first event badging submission
➡️ Building out volunteer on-ramps and infrastructure before a round of onboarding
We're all volunteers but week by week the wheels keep turning!
We're starting the week in celebration!
There are 150 individual signatories to the #PHPledge, including researchers, physicians, educators, engineers, organizers, artists, and more 🥳 They all have made a commitment to safer and more inclusive events.
Meanwhile, we're putting our new event badging process through its paces, and aligning with likeminded efforts at @chaoss.
Join us in raising the bar for events! Learn more at https://publichealthpledge.com.
Here's an important initiative to create standards and commit to safer and more inclusive events. Join and sign on to the Public Health Pledge!
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/02/standards-for-safer-events/
#PHPledge #IAQ #COVID19 #HealthAndSafety #AIVC #hvac #health #inclusion #eventprofs #assnchat
Here's an important initiative to create standards and commit to safer and more inclusive events. Join and sign on to the Public Health Pledge!
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/02/standards-for-safer-events/
#PHPledge #IAQ #COVID19 #HealthAndSafety #AIVC #hvac #health #inclusion #eventprofs #assnchat
Here's an important initiative to create standards and commit to safer and more inclusive events. Join and sign on to the Public Health Pledge!
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/02/standards-for-safer-events/
#PHPledge #IAQ #COVID19 #HealthAndSafety #AIVC #hvac #health #inclusion #eventprofs #assnchat
Here's an important initiative to create standards and commit to safer and more inclusive events. Join and sign on to the Public Health Pledge!
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/02/standards-for-safer-events/
#PHPledge #IAQ #COVID19 #HealthAndSafety #AIVC #hvac #health #inclusion #eventprofs #assnchat
Here's an important initiative to create standards and commit to safer and more inclusive events. Join and sign on to the Public Health Pledge!
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/02/standards-for-safer-events/
#PHPledge #IAQ #COVID19 #HealthAndSafety #AIVC #hvac #health #inclusion #eventprofs #assnchat
Here's an important initiative to create standards and commit to safer and more inclusive events. Join and sign on to the Public Health Pledge!
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/02/standards-for-safer-events/
#PHPledge #IAQ #COVID19 #HealthAndSafety #AIVC #hvac #health #inclusion #eventprofs #assnchat
Here's an important initiative to create standards and commit to safer and more inclusive events. Join and sign on to the Public Health Pledge!
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/02/standards-for-safer-events/
#PHPledge #IAQ #COVID19 #HealthAndSafety #AIVC #hvac #health #inclusion #eventprofs #assnchat
Here's an important initiative to create standards and commit to safer and more inclusive events. Join and sign on to the Public Health Pledge!
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/02/standards-for-safer-events/
#PHPledge #IAQ #COVID19 #HealthAndSafety #AIVC #hvac #health #inclusion #eventprofs #assnchat
Busy week for the #PHPledge team!
We're gearing up to onboard more volunteers and launch the process to put the event badging standard to work, collaborating with the @chaoss DEI working group to extend our reach, and in conversation with event organizers to support their work on Healthy and Safety. Oh, and updating our signatory list!
Thank you all for your support and commitment to raising the bar.
Together we'll make events safer and more inclusive! ✨
Here's an important initiative to create standards and commit to safer and more inclusive events. Join and sign on to the Public Health Pledge!
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/02/standards-for-safer-events/
#PHPledge #IAQ #COVID19 #HealthAndSafety #AIVC #hvac #health #inclusion #eventprofs #assnchat
Here's an important initiative to create standards and commit to safer and more inclusive events. Join and sign on to the Public Health Pledge!
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/02/standards-for-safer-events/
#PHPledge #IAQ #COVID19 #HealthAndSafety #AIVC #hvac #health #inclusion #eventprofs #assnchat
Here's an important initiative to create standards and commit to safer and more inclusive events. Join and sign on to the Public Health Pledge!
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/02/standards-for-safer-events/
#PHPledge #IAQ #COVID19 #HealthAndSafety #AIVC #hvac #health #inclusion #eventprofs #assnchat
Here's an important initiative to create standards and commit to safer and more inclusive events. Join and sign on to the Public Health Pledge!
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/02/standards-for-safer-events/
#PHPledge #IAQ #COVID19 #HealthAndSafety #AIVC #hvac #health #inclusion #eventprofs #assnchat
Here's an important initiative to create standards and commit to safer and more inclusive events. Join and sign on to the Public Health Pledge!
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/02/standards-for-safer-events/
#PHPledge #IAQ #COVID19 #HealthAndSafety #AIVC #hvac #health #inclusion #eventprofs #assnchat
Here's an important initiative to create standards and commit to safer and more inclusive events. Join and sign on to the Public Health Pledge!
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/02/standards-for-safer-events/
#PHPledge #IAQ #COVID19 #HealthAndSafety #AIVC #hvac #health #inclusion #eventprofs #assnchat
@anildash @danhon @Meyerweb I have a theory; there is no mention AT ALL in the post about public health questions and whether the content-seekers feel that conferences are doing enough to make it safe for them (because they likely have a different calculus and risk model from the networkers). nothing about the #PHPledge or masks or even code of conduct safety, or how that plays into the community that an event grows from...
Here's an important initiative to create standards and commit to safer and more inclusive events. Join and sign on to the Public Health Pledge!
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/02/standards-for-safer-events/
#PHPledge #IAQ #COVID19 #AIVC #hvac #health #inclusion #eventprofs #assnchat
A side effect of organizing the #PHPledge is constantly interacting with people who care, like you.
It's a balm for the soul in between the anger, disappointment, and concern felt as we watch many people we care about wander into harm's way despite our best efforts.
We are not alone, and while some double down on denialism, most are open to a better, safer, more inclusive future.
Wishing everyone peace and an active hope on this day ✨
Welcome new followers! 👋
Everyone should consider signing the #PHPledge, committing to only attend and organize events that take public health seriously. Each one who signs empowers more to speak up. Many are afraid to, due to social pressure or fear for job security.
If you can't sign the pledge, you should read our badging standard to get familiar with good practices and understand how to navigate the risks.
Together, we'll make events safer and more inclusive: https://phpledge.com
We just updated the list of signatories to the #PHPledge!
Nearly 140 signatories now, including event planners, educators, writers, engineers, nurses, artists, researchers, and community leaders.
All of them are making a commitment to ONLY attend and organize events that take health and safety seriously.
Is it time for you to join them?
Stand in solidarity with people with disabilities, chronic illness, caregivers, and those who live with them.
Sign today: https://phpledge.com ✍️
We're starting our day full of hope!
Sometimes it feels lonely being COVID-conscious in a world that's desperate to forget anything has changed.
But you are not alone. Far more people are concerned about COVID than let on. Sometimes they don't speak up because of social pressure or fear of retaliation from an employer.
Together, by speaking up and taking the pledge, we make it easier for others to use their voice and chip away at a broken status quo.
Shout out to the wonderful people at Constantia.io, in particular Melissa Logan, who saw #PHPledge and the event badging standard – then immediately became a signatory and now plans to use the badging standard for their events.
Way to set an example 👏
It's just the beginning, but I'm very excited about releasing the first #PHPledge event badging standard today.
The grading system it uses gives organizers and attendees something concrete to target.
Work in progress, for sure, but I believe this is a powerful starting point: https://phpledge.com/badging
#Covid19 #CovidIsStillHere #DevRel #Events #OpenSource #FLOSS #HealthAndSafety
Introducing the first edition of the Public Health Pledge's Event Badging Standard, version 2023-01: https://phpledge.com/badging 🏅
This standard can be used to quickly convey info about Health and Safety protocols, to help prospective participants assess risk.
It will be an evolving standard using YYYY-MM to denote version. Feedback welcome!
Soon we will launch a self-assessment form for events. Our next edition will include graphics for easy embedding on websites.
Yes, I am absolutely putting this bi pride adjacent color palette to work :ablobcatbongo: I've been trying to find an inclusive alternative to a red/yellow/green system for #PHPledge event badging graphics.
I'm sure it'll need to evolve but I think this is a strong direction.