[Board] Fwd: OSGeo CoC committee proposal

[David William Bitner]

Adding Camille's updated email address to the CC as I'm not sure if she's
on the board list...

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 4:43 PM, David William Bitner <bitner at dbspatial.com>
wrote:

> 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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>>
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