[Board] Drafting a Diversity statement for the foundation

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hey Jeff,

this looks good to me, and I encourage this. Thanks for moving this forward.

I think we should ask some of the experts (such as the people who were active in the COC discussion, a.o. Camille and Kate) to review as well. I don’t consider myself expert enough on this topic to be honest.

Btw, I suggest pointing to the board-priv list only, and not the president as well. We should have one gateway IMHO for feedback.

Best regards,
Bart

> On 02 Feb 2015, at 21:09, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
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> Hello OSGeo Board members,
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> Most of you will be aware of the current discussions on the Conference Committee mailing list in regards to creating a Code of Conduct for the FOSS4G conference[1].  I feel it is important now for the OSGeo Foundation to show that we support an open and safe environment, through a simple straightforward statement; I prefer to refer to this as Diversity, and I have made a first draft on the wiki[2]  Note that this statement will not affect whatever the OSGeo Conference Committee chooses for their Code of Conduct.
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> I would like Board members to edit that wiki page directly over the next few days, and then we can discuss this at the Board meeting on Thursday.  My goal is to have a new "/diversity" page linked from the main osgeo.org site.
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> Thanks everyone,
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> [1] http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Code-of-Conduct-td5180592.html
> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Diversity
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> -jeff
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