So far away. Get in there. All right. Good afternoon, everyone. Oh, you're so very quiet. So I think you're half asleep. Hello, Dee. So it's no secret that in the tech industry and in other industries across the across all the professions diversity is an issue. We can all agree with that, right? Yes, no, you half asleep. That's fine And as an organizer of tech events Diversity is important to me. It's something that I am as Carol said Very passionate about and on my travels. I mean, I've been to a lot of work camps and especially in Europe I've seen many events tackle diversity in different ways When I took on the role as work on London organizer, I Had an opportunity to lead the event Diversity was something I was passionate about but I Didn't want to tackle diversity The thing about diversity is It puts the emphasis on the minority to come up and make themselves known and I don't really like that Being someone who is part of that minority it always makes It's always like as if I have to do the work for the rest of the majority and I just don't like doing lots of work So instead, I kind of thought about inclusivity. I wanted to focus work out London on Making it the most inclusive event possible But first thing is first How do you make a Community inclusive? The answer At least I thought it did Was accessibility put an accessibility at the core of the event What if we made it as easy as it could be For more people to come to the event so that every excuse someone came to me with on Why they wouldn't come to a work out. It was already dealt with what happens if that is the goal If instead of looking at diversity, we looked at Inclusivity and in to do that. We made it easy for people It would mean that the minorities become the majority so what happened at work out London two years ago the Tweets that we got afterwards included some of these Thank you work out London the most inclusive accessible and supportive community I have had the privilege to be a part of Honestly reading these tweets makes my heart just I'm so proud of the team Back in Sussex after a phenomenal weekend at work out London Thank you to everyone for making our first work camp London Amazing and accessible and what the amazing thing about this particular tweet is the lady in the tweet Was a first-time speaker at our event too I was skeptical of life captioning but super useful amazing to watch but we'd experience as a speaker Fair play for that play Enjoying the quiet room at work out London to do some light reading would love to see this at more conferences Not enough characters to describe what an amazing conference work out London was loved friendliness captioning and quiet zones especially I Think those tweets really show how Put an accessibility at the core of the event was the right call So how did we do it? How did the team of work out London? 2016 and 2017 do this first and foremost I Made sure that we had a hundred percent organizer buy-in everyone on the organizing team Agreed this was the goal for work out London. It meant that we were all Aiming for a common goal a common focus and it meant that we had a cohesion in the way We thought about what we were doing for the event And the way we did that was to think Does whatever it is we're discussing Make the event more accessible less accessible or the same Every single thing we did this question came up Sometimes it was obvious what the answer was and sometimes it wasn't so obvious Now if the answer is number one more accessible great, it is a clear win for everyone. It's a no-brainer. Let's do it If the answer is two less accessible Okay At least you know there was going to be some issues at least you are aware and conscious of the fact Whatever it is that you're discussing has potential problems We had a situation like that at work out London the venue We were using had a particular spot where we wanted to put the teas and coffees Stands during the event the problem was there was only staircase access and To the coffee and the tea And now as all of you I'm sure realize coughing tea is kind of the bloodline of events So not being able to access that is kind of a problem There were two solutions to it At least we figured there was two solutions to it They might have been more if you know of more solutions. Let me know later The first one was to put some volunteers out of the front of the staircase who could run up and down and get coffees for people That was a easy solution for us We could get more volunteers just make sure they were on the rotor at all times and the other option was to just tell Everybody that there are going to be particular locations that they could not access So they ahead of time knew that they had to go to another coffee station instead By telling people ahead of time they can make their own decisions our attendees aren't stupid They are smart people so if you tell them we have a situation. We're really sorry But this is the problem if you have any ideas on how to help us fix this We would love to hear from you. They will respond in a very positive manner and if the answer is number three That's cool. It's neither better nor worse. It's just different and that's absolutely cool So some of the solutions that work out London did included childcare One of the attendees from 2015 tweeted at us asking if we're gonna have any plans for a crash Think the British word for childcare Some things I learned when I said yes to this Was a don't do it yourself. I don't want to be responsible for other people's children bad idea Find professionals Make sure you vet them not just that they're professionals, but they have the right credentials as well for your particular country Have a parent that you know talk to them who is potentially going to use this service Parents have this like radar because they have to pick schools and nurseries and stuff So they can kind of read these things better than I can so trust them and get testimonials and check through Life captioning it helps with catching missing words and accents. I usually speak a lot faster than this So live captioning is usually a very good idea for me But do consider in particular locations. You might need extra AV considerations There is a TV up there that we had to put into place and chairs and tables stuff that you wouldn't usually have at the front of a room space planning Things like multi-faith rooms lactation rooms quiet rooms break out spaces overflow rooms Places where the TV shows a live feed those can be useful if you have the space theme signage if You have theme signage. It helps your attendees and everyone be self-supportive. They can work out where to go themselves One pointer you will need more signage than you think and the other pointer Please please please if there's anything else you learn from this put signage above head height Because at 5 foot 2 it's I'm a very short person and Looking over 6 foot people doesn't work Scheduling considerations things like this the room change and the turnover times telling people how long they've got to go from A To B it's very useful It allows people to plan their time Accordingly whether the bathroom line is too long or too short have they got enough time for a good quick coffee Things like that allow it to be easier for people to decide how they are going to spend their time at your event It also allows people to digest information that they're thinking about Life essential boxes which are basically these boxes that we put in every single bathroom They have tampons and towels in different sizes and we put them in all the bathrooms men's women's and the Disabled bathrooms just make sure you check the amount in them and refill them during your event There are plenty of other things that we did as well, but I want to leave you with some takeaways Accessibility does not have to be expensive. Some of the things I mentioned they were completely free You need to think about your audience the community that you know about the people that you see every day at your meet-ups But also the community that you haven't met yet as well Make every decision a conscious one whether it's a better for four words At least you know what the situation is and fully understand it Be transparent in communication tell people don't be shy about it you're all volunteers at work camps and Therefore like people don't get mad at you when you don't do something as long as you tell them and With that, I just want to remind you we didn't look at diversity as a team We looked at inclusivity and with the way we did that was to make it in the event as accessible as possible. I Want you to think about what you could do to make your event more diverse more inclusive and more accessible Milly messy Thank you. Thank you so much Jenny


Texas and Colorado City and meet with all those birdchats and let them all tell you why they're for Goldwater. Yes, I want to be there getting ready for your trip there on the 20th of October talking about Appalachia. And here's what I propose to do and can do. We'll put $800,000 as requested by the budget for this commission, you know, that you propose to appoint. The money can't be spent until the commission is created by law. It isn't authorized, but if it's authorized early next year, we won't have to have a supplemental appropriation. You can give them the money and get them to work immediately. Now, this is a kind of a little backhanded approval. But what we do, that doesn't do any good for me. If I do nothing, you've got nothing for me. What we want to do is like we did with REA and like we have done with other agencies, there's no real opposition to the money for the commission. And Charlie Hannock told me he would go along and he would help work it out, too, if we had to have a rule or whatever is required to authorize it. Now, what we want to do is this. We want to get the Republican governor of Ohio and the Republican governor of Pennsylvania and the governor of West Virginia and the governor of Virginia Harris and our people. And we want to appoint this commission. I can set it up, I guess, by executive order. Do you want to appoint the commission? I can set it up by executive order now and I won't have the money for them to go on and make their preliminary planning and work and their divisions and how they're going to do this with the roads, the public roads and what they'll do here. And I hate to do it. I might even call them back to technique because I don't like to do things over twice. We've already passed them once over there. And I felt like that if they would give me this money and make it available now, they can make it available, they can make it available in my emergency fund if you want to. Just about $800,000 extra in my emergency fund. I've had to use a hell of it. A lot of it in Alaska and I've had to use a lot of it in the poverty. I've been paying them constantly out of the thing because their appropriation has been delayed and they're planning. But I don't want to get out of here and just say I have these 15 governors on my neck and not be able to be a drop. I tell me that in your foreign aid thing that you passed a foreign aid appropriation by getting the rule and waving points of order and then your appropriations and order. I don't know enough about the House parliamentary thing but it seems to me that you could do one or two things. Your conferees could change the language. It makes this $800,000 available to when authorized to just cut out when authorized and say it's $800,000 for a commission to study this. Then I create the commission by executive order. Or get a rule, make it an order. I don't care how it's done just so I can call in the governors and I won't lose the months of October and November and December because nobody's going to kid me into thinking that I'm going to get Appalachia the day we meet. The committee's going to have to be organized and they're going to have to go through all this stuff and the folks are going to stay at home an extra week and if I be damn lucky if I get it in March. So I want the commission to do the thorough planning. It's necessary and have these people. Now my employment, my unemployment's going up every day and we're claiming that we're doing something about these things but we did something about poverty but it's up two points since then. It's up, if you'll notice, one tenth of a percent this month. Again, it's up to five too now. I got it down to four or nine and things looked good. Everybody had confidence, everybody was employing, good business atmosphere. Congress sat on its fan and did nothing on poverty. We just sat and waited in their way. I went ahead in the last bill and it couldn't get through and they delayed it in the Senate and I couldn't, any of these young people so I got none of them employed. So the next thing I knew it went back to five points. Then last month it went to five one. Now this month it's five two. It's going right back up and I'm going to get a nice little lulu by election time where I'll probably wind up by six or seven more, Kennedy had it and I just can't survive that. Now, what you do is I don't care how you do it. That's the goose of the gander. I know this. I know that the president's got an emergency fund and I know you can say that we've got these commissions. They're already meeting. These governors have got their conference. They had this plan for why he even came in here. They had me down to West Virginia and the governor of Georgia and the governor of Virginia. That's not a bunch of crackpots. He's a solidest man in the country. They had Scranton and the roads of Ohio and Scranton to Pennsylvania, governor of West Virginia who's president of the governor's conference, governor Harrison of Virginia, governor Sanders of Georgia, governor of South Carolina, Donald Russell. Now, give me 800,000 for my emergency fund. Give me 800,000 for a commission to be created by executive order. Give me 800,000 for the Appalachian Commission.  And just bear this in mind. My first budget was July. That's when Johnson's budget came in. Then August is Johnson. That's first two months. Now, you know how much I spent in July and August? I spent 600 at 56 million less than you and Kennedy spent last July and August. Now, are you listening to that? Isn't that shocking? If I can't hold that. I can't hold that. But if I held that, instead of spending a billion dollars less this year, I would spend three billion for this for six, two months period. But the budget director's in this morning.  Not to replace a person that quits. I spent in July and August, 600 million less than the last July and August. And he said that's the most honest measurement you can make. It's the same month last year. I've got 25,000 less people working for the federal government today than work when I took over. Well now. Now you follow that? 800,000 of Appalachians. I don't care how you get it. You work out that. If I were in a position to sidestep this matter, or gloss it over, but I'm right at the mouth of the gun. Just take your lead. That's the last. Just ask your clerk. Say, how can I get this 800,000 of it? I already talked about it. The House, the Republicans, and the Democrats are not going to go along on the beginning of Appalachia and the approval by the appropriation process of the appointment of this commission by and in the appropriation of this money. So we can't get it. Well now, Charlie Hallick told me this morning. Well, I've just been talking to him. Well, he told me this morning that he had talked to Frank Bowell and he had talked to Ben Jensen and that he would go along with me and I could consider that a commitment. And I said, I want to appoint the commission. I want them studied. I said, now this is not going to involve a commitment of the billion dollars. I said, no, it commits 800,000. And if you don't pass Appalachia, it goes out of existence. If you do pass it, we're ready for it. And we do it in planning on everything.  Yes, well, I don't believe that we can get the contrary's degree to this. You know, the Senate will do it. Because the Senate's ready to do it anyway. The Senate is willing to pass this legislation. Well, you go tell Charlie Hallock, the president understood him to tell him this morning that he would be willing to go for providing the funds and the appointment of the commission. He would provide the funds for the Appalachia Commission. And that the Appalachia Commission could work. But it would not involve any commitment beyond the commission on any project. And if you don't, well, God dammit, just put 800,000 in my emergency fund, George. You give the president whatever he wants for the emergency fund anyway, don't you? Yes. All right. But now, do you have... And he has Republicans, really, stronger for this than I am. You know the 12 of the 14 Republicans, Pennsylvania, Appalachia? Sure, sure. Now, do you have any interest in a provision which would provide that in the event of the passage of legislation authorizing the commission, $800,000 would be available? No, it's no value. It would be a gesture. It would only hasten the... That was put in in anticipation that you would pass the authorizing bill. And what I was going to do is say I would be, well, I was going to tell them that I would favor your adjourning tonight. Or whenever you could adjourn without passing authorization for Appalachia, not hold them here to get them back to vote on it. It's ready to be voted on. It's passed the Senate. It's got a rule. It's passed the House Committee. All you got to do is bring it up and vote on it. But the ban are not here. So I didn't want to pull them back. And I said, I can't really get the program started anyway until next January. I can get the commission appointed. I can get the conferences held. I can get the plans developed. And I have confidence that we can pass the program if I'm elected.  It can expire.  Well, now, you would have a limited, a partial foot in the door proposition with the approval, with the appropriation of the 800,000 continued upon the passing of the legislation. So it would go into... It would be better than nothing, but it's a fraud. Do you have that than nothing? Oh, yes, sure. Oh, sure. But what... Well, George, you can put it in my... Give it in my emergency fund. I'll try. I'll try. Just go in there and just say to him, and I'm going to set this up by executive order, and I want emergency fund to do it. And I don't want to build the deficiency and send you up to the deficiency. I need it now. And how do I agree with me? Do it. But you see... I called him. That's the only thing I called him about this session. I called him this morning, and he said, now, I would not want to commit a billion dollars.  But I want that, and I want what I can spend it. And he said, he'd go to me, and he'd talk to Ben Jensen and Frank Bow. They'll agree to this, but they haven't agreed to it with them. Well, go on and sell it to them. You can't get 800,000. My God, I'll get Clarence Cannon back here for me. But 800,000 is chicken feet. When you just point out to them that your president has spent $656 million less and was spending a couple of times, I ought to have to have made about 800,000. Who do you want me to talk to after we've come to some resolution? Whoever you need to. If you need to. I know I'm talking about that. Me? Call me. Well, I'm ready. This is an important thing. These are doubtful states. These are Pennsylvania, these are Ohio, and just much to them. He'll tell you, he'll tell you it's very much to their interest. I don't know. I'll get in touch with Carla, and they'll agree on it. Okay. Okay.


Love has a scar in the center of her belly where her umbilical cord was severed. Love was born in mucus and blood, frightened and helpless. Love wears a skin which records her history and wrinkles in the scars. Love is flesh and that flesh is anything but invincible. Which is not to say that love is weak. On the contrary, most of the scars that love wears she earned by wrapping herself around the targets of hatred and receiving the blows on their stead.