[Board] Diversity/Inclusiveness

[María Arias de Reyna]

In fact, the last "news" from the committee are that they don't have enough
volunteers/resources in 2015:

https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/coc-discuss/2015-December/000035.html

Unless there is something more recent that I can't find.

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 2:22 PM, María Arias de Reyna <delawen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I thought this committee was already closed, as I haven't seen any
> activity recently. Also, I can't find the list of members or how they are
> chosen.
>
> If it is still working, I would include them, sure. But we have to make
> sure we have a diverse team writing the guidelines. There are things that
> if you haven't experience yourself, it is difficult to address. For
> example, I have only experienced soft racism and I have no idea about
> transexual experience. I wouldn't dare to write about that parts.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 2:12 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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#Inclusi
>>> veness_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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>>
>> --
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>
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