[OSGeo Oceania] OSM Community issue

[Bruce Bannerman]

Hi Greg,

Firstly, thank you for bouncing this issue by our community in the first instance. Many hands can make light work...

As to the issue:

The language and tone of the email that you referenced is offensive and should not be tolerated within any open source community.

This type of incident is why communities have implemented formal Codes of Conduct to provide guidance to a community as to what is considered to be acceptable behaviour, together with the consequences of breaching that code of conduct.

A good example of a COC that I shared recently is the Berlin COC [1].


As to our potential response:

I had a quick look at the referenced email and document.

This is not our issue to sort out. This is an internal issue for the OSM community to resolve themselves. 

I believe that it is not appropriate for OSGeo Oceania to intervene.

We should therefore refrain from comment.


That said, this is a good example of why we need a clear understanding of how we relate with each other within our community. I don’t recall that we have seriously discussed the need for a COC within our community.

I recall that people like Cameron Shorter have discussed the need. Alex also referred to a conference COC (I think).

Kind regards,

Bruce

[1] https://berlincodeofconduct.org/ 

> On 11 Dec 2020, at 10:20, Greg Lauer <gregory.lauer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I am sure most of you will be aware of the 'Call to Take Action' being circulated in the OSM community. Several members have asked OSGeo Oceania to endorse the call to action. See links in email below.
> 
> We have our first board meeting (as in with the new Board) this afternoon and I have put it as an agenda item. I am personally hesitant for the Board to make a decision on endorsing the call to action with out some barometer of support from members and/or community for such a action (or no action).
> 
> Can I ask our members and community at large to put some thought into the appropriate action that OSGeo Oceania should undertake. For example do we agree to simply endorse the Call to action, or do we issue a statement. Or do we not support the Call to Action? I realize this is short notice but that is out of our control :-(
> 
> Some of the community (including myself) have made some comments on the working document (link below this email)
> 
> The meeting starts at 2pm. If anybody wanted to speak to the Board on this matter we can make some time available via a Zoom invitation.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Greg
> ------ Forwarded Message --------
> From: Celine Jacquin <celija at gmail.com>
> Date: 12/10/2020 4:57:57 PM 
> Subject: [Osmf-talk] Call to Take Action and Confront Systemic Offensive Behavior in the OSM Community 
> To: osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org, talk at openstreetmap.org
> 
> Hello everybody
> I hope you are all well
> 
> We, several groups, chapters, organizations and individuals, have reacted to the conversation in the osm-talk-list (https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2020-December/085692.html) considering that it is an incident symptomatic of the problem we have faced for many years in the community, which is one of the greatest obstacles to diversity at all levels of OSM. Time to make a real change.
> That is why we have developed a beginning of statement on the desirable mechanisms to work solidly on the rules of coexistence and improve diversity.
> 
> We bring it to your attention and invite anyone who feels represented to sign it. Translations are in preparation (any help is welcome): 
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/130JCTX9ve4H4ORXznmIVTpXiN3TX8nRGA8ayuTZ9ECI/edit?usp=sharing
> 
> 
> On behalf of the signatories
> Best regards
> 
> Céline Jacquin
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