[Board] Fwd: OSGeo CoC committee proposal

[Jeff McKenna]

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 withdrawn, revised, and resubmitted for the next meeting?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
>
> On Jul 25, 2015 8:17 AM, "Jachym Cepicky" <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto:jsanz at osgeo.org>> napsal:
>
>         2015-07-24 14:11 GMT+02:00 Massimiliano Cannata
>         <massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch
>         <mailto: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
>         http://www.osgeo.org
>         http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz
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