We Didn’t Care About Diversity — What Happened Next Is Amazing!

WordCamp Europe 2017 talk
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What happens when you create an event and don’t care about diversity? What happens when you don’t listen to what everyone tells you but think in entirely different terms? This lightning talk will tell you what happened when I stopped caring about diversity and started thinking about event organisation in a different way. What we learned will blow your mind.

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1. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 We Didn’t Care About Diversity - What Happened Next Is Amazing! By Jenny Wong at Human Made 1
2. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 Diversity 2
3. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 Diversity 3
4. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 Inclusivity 4
5. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 How do you make a community inclusive? 5
6. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 Accessibility at the core 6
7. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 Diversity 7 Inclusivity Accessibility
8. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 Minorities become the majority 8
9. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 What happened? 9
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15. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 How did it happen ? 15
16. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 100% organiser buy in 16
17. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 Does __ make the event : 1. More accessible 2. Less accessible 3. The same 17 ?
18. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 Answer : 1. More accessible 18
19. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 Answer : 2. Less accessible 19
20. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 Answer : 3. The same 20
21. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 Solutions 21
22. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 Childcare 22
23. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 Childcare 23
24. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 Live Captioning 24
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26. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 Space planning 26
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28. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 Themed Signage 28
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30. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 Scheduling Considerations 30
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32. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 Life Essentials Boxes 32
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34. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 Take aways 34
35. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 Accessibility does not have to be expensive 35
36. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 Think about your audience: The Community 36
37. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 Make conscious decisions 37
38. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 Be transparent in your communication 38
39. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 Diversity 39 Inclusivity Accessibility
40. WordCamp Europe Page of 40 Mille mercis 40