<div><div dir="auto">One thing I miss is wider community exposure to all the activity happening world wide regions. If I was not following osgeo•jp members (in this case Yoichi Kayama) on Facebook I would not know there was a qgis hackfest going on at the moment.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Perhaps one way to start is to share what is going on with each other, and celebrate the diversity we do have inorder to encouraging more.</div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 11:28 AM María Arias de Reyna <<a href="mailto:delawen@gmail.com" target="_blank">delawen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear all,<br>
<br>
We haven't had much movement around this subject since the call-out.<br>
And this is bad. Very bad. This means one or more of the following:<br>
* Our community is too heterogeneous, we have no diverse members.<br>
* Diverse members of our community feel too disconected to participate.<br>
* Diverse members of our community are too overworked to volunteer on this.<br>
<br>
So now I want to mobilize the not-diverse members of our community to<br>
reach our members from diversity target groups. Please, talk to them,<br>
make sure they feel comfortable and included and make sure they are<br>
not overworking to be with us.<br>
<br>
I think I don't need to explain to you why an heterogenous community<br>
is bad in the long term sustainability. We have barriers we are<br>
possibly not even aware of and it is difficult to get rid of them if<br>
we don't have input from people suffering from those barriers (like, I<br>
didn't realize how difficult it is to get to a conference on a<br>
wheelchair until I saw it with my own eyes). We are losing a lot of<br>
talent by not taking care of this.<br>
<br>
Kind Regards,<br>
María.<br>
<br>
<br>
On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 2:08 PM, María Arias de Reyna <<a href="mailto:delawen@gmail.com" target="_blank">delawen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Dear fellow members,<br>
><br>
> We have had some discussions running in the last months regarding how<br>
> to improve diversity and inclusivity inside OSGeo. If you feel part of<br>
> a target group for diversity and inclusiveness, I would like to ask<br>
> for your help and volunteer to help us improving our guidelines and<br>
> conducts. Even if you haven't been a very visible or active member of<br>
> OSGeo until now, this is important because your point of view is<br>
> difficult to reach from a privileged perspective.<br>
><br>
> What is a target group for diversity?<br>
> We don't want to have a strict list here, our goal is to have a<br>
> diverse and wide range pool of points of views that can watch and<br>
> review OSGeo to make sure we don't leave anyone behind.<br>
><br>
> Some examples: POC, WIT, LGBT+, economic diversity. But we don't want<br>
> to stop there. If you are blind, neurodiverse, on a wheelchair, or<br>
> anything you think that we should take into consideration, please,<br>
> volunteer too.<br>
><br>
> What are we calling out for? Well, at least we have two starting points here:<br>
> * Review CoC for FOSS4G and help organization in making it as more<br>
> diverse as possible.<br>
> * Review CoC for OSGeo.<br>
><br>
> What do I ask you right now? If you want to help, please, do the following:<br>
> * Join the CoC mailint list and say hi:<br>
> <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/coc-discuss" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/coc-discuss</a><br>
> * Help here: <a href="https://github.com/foss4g2018/foss4g2018/issues/65" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/foss4g2018/foss4g2018/issues/65</a><br>
><br>
> This is all volunteer work and we won't ask you to do anything more<br>
> than you can give. But remember that without your point of view, we<br>
> can't make OSGeo easier to reach for people with your profile. And we<br>
> want to welcome everybody as much as possible.<br>
><br>
> Thank you very much,<br>
> María.<br>
> OSGeo, President.<br>
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