[Board] Fwd: OSGeo CoC committee proposal

[David William Bitner]

Cameron,

I think this committee is a bit different and there are really two parts to
what this committee can do.

1) Discuss and help guide policy around the CoC as well as other
initiatives that can help increase diversity in our community

2) Respond and enforce to any reports of violations to the CoC

While it is extremely important to have open discussion with a group that
may grow and contract for #1, I think it's important to have an intentional
limit on the group that is privy to #2 so as to limit the scope of people
who are dealing with potentially very private information. I can see
perhaps having more voting members, but only if we created some sort of
executive committee of the committee that was much more limited.

David

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Camille and Kristin,
> It is great to see you both initiate a CoC committee, and I'm delighted to
> see you both involved in it.
> I'm +1 for your proposal (although I'm not on the board any more).
>
> I have a minor suggestion re membership, based on conventions from other
> OSGeo committees.
>
> Committees have volunteers come and go, sometimes with many people
> volunteering to be members, sometimes with few.
>
> I'd encourage you to have no fixed limit on the number of members that you
> have at any one time. Rather existing members can vote in a new member at
> any time, and people can retire at any time (and be thanked for their
> service).
>
> As I expect this committee might receive some strong opinions from people
> who jump in, say their point, then leave, you might want to expect people
> have provided valuable contributions for a period of time before they
> become a voting member. (Maybe ~ 3 months as a guide, but that a timeframe
> need not be a criteria).
>
> As such, you might want to make it clear that all are welcome to
> contribute to public email discussions, but votes are only counted from
> committee members.
>
> Thanks and warm regards,
> Cameron
>
>
> On 10/07/2015 1:59 am, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>
>>
>> Hey Everyone,
>>
>>
>> As many of you know, a number of us met for a BoF session during State
>> of the Map (NYC, early June) to discuss next steps/implementation for
>> the Code of Conduct (CoC) that was recently adopted by the OSGeo Board.
>>
>>
>> By adopting the CoC, the OSGeo Board has taken a step in the right
>> direction, but a policy without an implementation plan is insufficient.
>> In order to make the CoC actionable, OSGeo needs to have process in
>> place to deal with any CoC issues occurring in OSGeo forums, projects,
>> or in person at OSGeo gatherings.
>>
>>
>> We propose the creation of a standing Code of Conduct committee. This
>> committee will be tasked not only with designing and implementing a
>> process for incident reporting and follow-up but also supporting
>> knowledge transfer between conference/event organizers (e.g. as part of
>> the “passing of the torch” to the next FOSS4G LOC) and supporting best
>> practices for accessibility for events and activities.
>>
>>
>> We ask you to review our proposed committee structure on the OSGeo Wiki
>> (wiki page <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/CodeOfConduct_Committee>[1]) and
>> vote in favor of the establishment of this new committee. We welcome
>> feedback about the best way to structure such a committee, and we would
>> also appreciate guidance on how the committee can best engage the board
>> and the rest of the organization.
>>
>>
>> If the Code of Conduct committee is approved by the board we are willing
>> to serve as co-chairs to get the committee up and running.
>>
>>
>> We look forward to hearing from you and moving forward in this important
>> work.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Camille Acey
>>
>> Kristin Bott
>>
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/CodeOfConduct_Committee
>>
>>
>>
>>
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