[Board] Diversity/Inclusiveness

[Jody Garnett]

Could this be a collaboration within the existing code of conduct
committee? Rather than trip up volunteers we already have who have
expressed passion towards supporting diversity?
On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 1:51 AM María Arias de Reyna <delawen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On yesterday's board meeting we talked (briefly) about the problem with
> diversity and inclusiveness in OSGeo and FOSS4G. We intend to talk more
> about this in Bonn:
>
>
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2018-03-01#Inclusiveness_guidelines_for_conferences
>
> The proposal that has been made for this  (thanks Jeff and others*) is:
>
>  * Create a working group for diversity inside OSGeo
>  * Create guidelilnes for conferences
>  * Review CoC
>
> Although I already expressed my fear of creating this working group before
> next FOSS4G, as members of that group will be sensitively targeted just by
> being part of it.
>
> I am still following OSM advancements on this and maybe we can take part
> of their work for us:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Diversity/MailingList/CodeOfConduct
>
> Some of the GeoChicas (the spanish women group in OSM) already expressed
> their desire to work with us and help.
>
> I know that the part of reviewing the CoC may be sensitive too, but most
> of the CoC written in the past decade are very open to ambiguities and do a
> lot of cargo culting and focuses on effects, not on causes. I want to make
> sure our CoC does not follow that and is really useful. If you compare it
> with the CoC OSM is writing, you can see there are many differences. At
> this point I am not sure what parts should be rewritten, that's why I want
> a working group on that.
>
> Cheers,
> María.
>
> * not sure to what extent they want their names here
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