<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><div>Clay, </div><div>Thanks for sharing your experience with outreach at conferences for underrepresented communities. At MapBox we take growing diversity both internally and within our communities very seriously, and do a lot to push that forward. Rest assured a tweet from someone not even on the team is not the extent of our efforts ; )</div><div><br></div><div>This could be a great topic though to present to the diversity list - what are people doing successfully to reach out to underrepresented communities around job openings, events, trainings, speaking opportunities, etc. Alyssa, maybe we could start up a google doc or wiki around that? </div><div><br></div><div>Bonnie</div>
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<br><div><div>On Jul 17, 2013, at 6:29 PM, Clay Smalley <<a href="mailto:claysmalley@gmail.com">claysmalley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">In regards to ensuring a diverse team, it's certainly important to reach out to underrepresented groups. But the means of doing it is just as important. One of the best ways to reach out is to sponsor a conference for an underrepresented group, and set up a booth there where you can talk to potential recruits. For example, I've gone to the Out for Undergraduate Technology Conference for the last two years, and quite a lot of companies have shown up to hire LGBT college students in tech. There are many similar conferences supporting underrepresented groups (gender, race, sexual orienation, etc.) in various industries, most of which I'm a little too lazy to look up right now.<div>
<div><div><br></div><div>I'm glad MapBox is looking for some diversity to add to their predominantly white and male team. My point is, no matter which route they take, it will need more effort than a tweet looking for non-white-males.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>(white genderqueer here, for the record)</div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Bonnie Bogle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bonniebogle@gmail.com" target="_blank">bonniebogle@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Jonathan, understood. For the record, Alyssa doesn't work at MapBox. She passed on this note and and tweeted simply as a colleague in the space helping to spread the word about a job opportunity.</div><div style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;font-family:Helvetica;word-wrap:break-word;word-spacing:0px">
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<br></div></div><div><div class="h5"><div><div>On Jul 17, 2013, at 5:53 PM, Jonathan <<a href="mailto:bigfatfrog67@gmail.com" target="_blank">bigfatfrog67@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">
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As I said, I understand and in fact support your intentions but to
suggest a tweet starting with "not a white dude" is quite simply
insulting. Could I start a job search with the title "not a black
dude?"<br>
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By all means reach out to members of the community you wish to
encourage by communicating in areas they may frequent but you cannot
send global messages excluding those you don't want.<br>
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Jonathan<br>
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<div>On 17/07/2013 21:17, Bonnie Bogle
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<div>Thanks Lela for the link. We encourage **everyone** who's
interested and qualified to apply to this and all positions at
MapBox. </div>
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<div>We also actively try to get job listings plus news about our
work out to diverse communities outside of our typical channels,
which can be more developer/map/technical oriented and often do
not have the same diversity as the world around us : ) Which is
what I think Alyssa was trying to help with here with the
international community and diversity OSM list. </div>
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<div>Feel free to hit me up with any
questions/concerns/suggestions here or off thread. </div>
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<div>On Jul 17, 2013, at 4:00 PM, Lela Prashad <<a href="mailto:lprashad@nijel.org" target="_blank">lprashad@nijel.org</a>>
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I think they are just advertising an Affirmative Action/Equal
Opportunity position - legal and required for federal
contractors in the US. Here's a list of boilerplate statements
MapBox could draw from to explain their diversity-in-hiring
policy.
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<div><a href="http://www.uic.edu/depts/oae/docs/Sample%20Diversity%20Statements.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.uic.edu/depts/oae/docs/Sample%20Diversity%20Statements.pdf</a></div>
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<div>Lela<br>
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On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Jonathan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bigfatfrog67@gmail.com" target="_blank">bigfatfrog67@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> While I
appreciate your intentions, in this country (UK) it is
illegal to specify that applicants for a job should be
of any one gender or race let alone specifying a race
or gender that is not welcome!<br>
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Equality is a two way street.<br>
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Jonathan<br>
(for what it's worth I'm a White Anglo Saxon
Protestant)
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<div>On 17/07/2013 05:30, alyssa wright wrote:<br>
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<div>MapBox needs a Biz Dev Lead in San
Francisco and is actively looking for a
diverse applicant pool. A diverse pool would
be great for MapBox and great for open source
geo. But they need help building that pool.</div>
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<div>D-I-V-E-R-I-S-I-T-Y !!!</div>
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<div>Hmm. That was supposed to be a rallying
call however I've just demonstrated my
nonexistent skills in both cheerleading and
spelling. National Dork Day was yesterday, I
must still be celebrating. </div>
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<div>But I digress! We are rallied.</div>
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<div>So I humbly ask each ofmyou to reach to
those diverse corners of your networks (keep
it PG, or at least kosher) for bizdev
superstars. And if you're feeling punchy, hop
on twitter, these babies are just waitin' for
some retweet love.</div>
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<div>Tweet:</div>
<div>Save the Women's Bathroom! Save humanity!
@Mapbox seeking Biz Dev Lead. Industry seeking
diversity. Please forward. <a href="http://t.co/mdUEokLgIr" target="_blank">http://t.co/mdUEokLgIr</a></div>
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<div><span>Link: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/alyssapwright/status/357343471339716610" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/alyssapwright/status/357343471339716610</a></div>
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<div>Tweet:</div>
<div>not a white dude? please apply. Hiring
Business Development Lead at MapBox SF: <a href="http://t.co/mdUEokLgIr" target="_blank">http://t.co/mdUEokLgIr</a>
via @mapbox </div>
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<div>Link:</div>
<div><a href="https://twitter.com/alyssapwright/status/356385182594506752" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/alyssapwright/status/356385182594506752</a></div>
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<div>PS I have no idea what the bathroom
situation is in MapBox. I'm sure it's
awesome. </div>
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