[Board] Fwd: OSGeo CoC committee proposal

[Kristin Bott]

Hi Jeff + all --

Thanks for your feedback on the proposed committee. Our responses to your
comments are summarized below. (See also the CoC committee wiki page
<http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/CodeOfConduct_Committee>[1].)


Let us know if you have additional concerns / thoughts; we look forward to
seeing the board move this initiative forward.


cheers -


Camille Acey and Kristin Bott



Feedback

   1.

   Membership - include both voting and non-voting members to help achieve
   the dual purposes of the committee (Goals: guide policy around CoC and
   other initiatives to increase diversity; deal with reports of violations of
   the CoC).
   1.

      Open email list, open membership. -- Discuss and help guide policy
      around the CoC as well as other initiatives that can help increase
      diversity in our community (COC-discuss at osgeo.org). No limits on the
      number of people involved in this capacity.
      2.

      Private membership, limited to 5 people per committee proposal. --
      Receive and anonymize any reports of violations to the CoC (
      COC-private at osgeo.org) as well as provide support as a first line of
      response to incident reports (in cooperation with the board, LOCs and
      moderators)



   1.

   Chairs - need to specify
   1.

      Camille Acey and Kristin Bott will co-chair for the first year of the
      committee



   1.

   CoC Reports - allow for anonymous report submission, fears of “what if
   someone on the CoC committee is out of line”
   1.

      Allow for an option of anonymous submission via a webform (no login,
      no identifying information collected). Invite reporters to provide
      identifying information so the committee can follow up re:
reports, but do
      not require this (do not want to create obstacles to reporting).
      2.

      Reports against CoC committee members can be made to the board (and
      vice-versa). If a CoC committee member is personally involved in a CoC
      report, they will be removed from the intake and follow-up of
that incident.



   1.

   Concerns re: blacklisting
   1.

      The CoC committee has no desire to blacklist individuals or provide a
      heavy-handed police-like role. Instead, we aim to serve as a resource to
      LOCs, moderators and the board, continue to iterate towards more
inclusive
      practice/policy, and help to maintain institutional knowledge about CoC
      violations and the decisions the LOCs, moderators, and/or board make with
      regard to those violations. “Violations” refers to any acts by
individuals
      or groups who repeatedly act in a way that is contrary to the stated
      priorities of OSGeo as an organization (i.e. the board-approved CoC).
      2.

      We intend for the committee to maintain an archive/repository of such
      incidents as well as any organizational decisions around individuals’
      conduct/participation (e.g. names of banned individuals); the OSGeo LOCs,
      moderators, and/or board will absolutely continue to determine
whether/not
      individuals are welcome to participate in OSGeo events /
projects / forums.



   1.

   Committee name + structure (rename? Create CoC as a subcommittee?)
   1.

      An explicitly-named committee evidences OSGeo’s commitment to the
      CoC. As such we wish to retain the name of “Code of Conduct Committee”.


[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/CodeOfConduct_Committee




On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
> wrote:

> Hi Camille,
>
> Thanks for taking all of this feedback so positively.
>
> I believe the Board should again tackle this at the next Board meeting on
> 13 August, so I've re-added this to the agenda[1] as a priority item.  I
> don't see the need to withdraw or resubmit, but the Board definitely needs
> clarification from you on the items reported during the Como board
> meeting.  Maybe you and Kristin could take those notes and respond to them
> inline here?  That might work.
>
> I hope this plan works for everyone.
>
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-08-13
>
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
>
> On 2015-07-25 1:42 PM, Camille Acey wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> Thanks for all the constructive feedback. Kristin and I (the two
>> proposed co-chairs) are going to chat next week and will get back to you
>> with our thoughts and any amendments to the proposal.
>>
>> Just for clarification, is this proposal a tabled issue that will be
>> discussed/voted on at the next board meeting or does it need to be
>> withdrawn, revised, and resubmitted for the next meeting?
>>
>> Camille
>>
>
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