[Board] Fwd: OSGeo CoC committee proposal

[Camille Acey]

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withdrawn, revised, and resubmitted for the next meeting?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
On Jul 25, 2015 8:17 AM, "Jachym Cepicky" <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com> wrote:

> I understand and actually I'm resonating with Cameron's reasoning for
> having small committee or .. something like having small action more-closed
> action body within the rather bigger open committee. Victim deserves
> protection.
>
> I do concern about the control over the committee, if they need to hide
> some of the cases, you will be (assuming) dealing with (aka "who controls
> the controllers?") Could you address the point for me ? (or one more time,
> if you already did in some e-mail thread or wiki). We have some not so well
> experience with small action groups with rather broad powers here in
> eastern Europe, therefore my concerns.
>
> I also agree with Arnulf's point -> rather implement, then enforce
>
> Thanks
>
> Jachym
>
>
>
> so 25. 7. 2015 v 13:22 odesílatel Jorge Sanz <jsanz at osgeo.org> napsal:
>
>> 2015-07-24 14:11 GMT+02:00 Massimiliano Cannata <
>> massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch>:
>> > Dear Kristen and Camille,
>> > I would like to thanks you for your interest in bringing up such a kind
>> of
>> > important mission.
>> >
>> > I would 100% support the committee if its scope is to promote and
>> > pro-actively take actions to let OSGeo be a respectful community.
>> > Nevertheless, I think as Jeff noted, that the committee shall be fully
>> open
>> > to everyone interested and that no "police" role is given to it.
>> >
>> > In my opinion the existing laws and the already established board shall
>> > handle this without recording any black-list.
>> >
>> > Best
>> > Maxi
>> >
>>
>> I agree with Jeff and Maxi's support on your work. An OSGeo committee
>> has to be an open group, with open communications and decisions to
>> support the mission it's stating. If the committee wants to maintain a
>> smaller group for an specific task (and very delicate in this case)
>> that's great.
>>
>> For example I'm part of working groups like maintaining the Foundation
>> planet or administering the mailing lists server and I'm not even a
>> voted member of the Systems Administration Committee, On that role I'm
>> just a volunteer working with other volunteers under the "supervision"
>> of a bigger group of smart and dedicated people.
>>
>> So why a full OSGeo Committee that has a mission to encourage
>> diversity and inclusivity has to be a small closed group? Why not
>> having a normal committee that appoints that working group for that
>> matter (incident reports) and leave space to other tasks that lead
>> this Foundation to a broader audience? There's nothing else to do to
>> encourage diversity that evolving and implementing a CoC? really? I
>> don't know, maybe helping the Conf and Edu Committees with ideas on
>> grants and student programs for our events can be part of the scope of
>> this committee.
>>
>> Maybe my problem is that with that mission, I imagined that committee
>> more like an Outreach Committee because I want to see it in a positive
>> way and a "Code of Conduct Committee" has too many negative
>> implications in my head.
>>
>> Again, I'm grateful to all your passion and commitment on diversity
>> and I expect to see great results on your work that are not related at
>> all with incidents or people banned of our conferences.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> --
>> Jorge Sanz
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