So @Alyson Stemas suggested that we should have a space to have open discussions about the hardest parts of community that people don't often talk about.
We are planning on hosting a short, initial 60-minute meetup next week. Some of the topics we are considering discussing are below:
• Can a community be exclusive and inclusive at the same time?
• Is there a right way to allow self promotion in a community?
• What is the right way for a community respond to local, global, social, and political conflict?
• Community leaders are often overwhelmed with feedback from community members, but it seems like the only solution, so how do you scale a community and responding to feedback?
• How does one make community DEI metrics that aren’t tokenizing nor performative?
Who here might be interested in that?