Idea: More explicitly call out the desire for women/PoC/queer/etc. folks to join mentored sprints

[webchick]

An excerpt from a Slack conversation a few weeks ago:

webchick [19 days ago] 
@alisonjo2786 So we do a “first-time contributor” sprint every DrupalCon, which is some of that. It doesn’t specifically say “please come here if you’re a woman, queer, or a PoC” because that seems like. Implying that those factors would somehow mean you need extra help, which seems messed up.

drnikki [19 days ago] 
It could say “please come if you are woman, queer, POC, because we value your contributions.”

alisonjo2786 
[19 days ago] 
Oh that's really good...

rubyji [19 days ago] 
Yes or “because we need the contributors to be more diverse to make Drupal more awesome.”

drnikki
[19 days ago] 
It could say “we recongize that there are often additional barriers to participating if you are queer, trans, POC, and we want to offset that if we can.”

This makes a lot of sense to me, though I don't have any access to enact these changes myself.

Posting this here in the hopes that either the DA or the Drupal Mentoring Team puts them into action. :) We could also do a bit more bikeshedding on the actual text we want to add to pages like e.g. https://events.drupal.org/vienna2017/sprints and https://events.drupal.org/vienna2017/first-time-sprinter-workshop and https://events.drupal.org/vienna2017/mentored-core-sprint and https://events.drupal.org/vienna2017/general-sprints.