Thank you to the board for listening to our appeal. I look forward to collaborating on the next steps.
Heather On Fri, 11 Dec 2020, 04:57 Allan Mustard, <allan.must...@osmfoundation.org> wrote: > To the OSM and OSMF communities: > > I convey the following information on behalf of the Board of Directors of > the OpenStreetMap Foundation. > > An outcome of the current controversy on the osmf-talk mailing list over > misogynistic language is a decision by the Board as follows: > > The Board will find partners to help instate a moderator team for the > OSMF-talk and talk mailing lists. These moderators need to have the trust > of the community subject to the moderation (consent of the governed) by > some kind of approval mechanism. This moderator team will start to work > on enforcing the current Etiquette guidelines as soon as possible. We will > also start work on updating/replacing our Etiquette rules, which must focus > on balancing all participants' interests. > > We have asked the Local Chapters and Communities Working Group (LCCWG ) to > take the lead on this and to work with signatories of the open letter to > the Board [1] as well as members of the Diversity and Inclusion Special > Committee to produce proposals for the Board to consider at its January > meeting. The LCCWG has accepted this task. This issue will be on the > agenda of the January meeting of the Board of Directors, exact time and > date yet to be determined, though as is customary it will be posted to the > Foundation's website well in advance. > > Members of the OSM community are, as always, welcome to share their > opinions and any relevant information on this matter, either publicly via > osmf-talk, or privately in direct communications to the LCCWG. I feel > compelled to remind all members of the community that a Code of Etiquette > [2] has existed since June 2011 and shall be observed by all community > members. > > Very best regards to all, > apm > > [1] > https://docs.google.com/document/d/130JCTX9ve4H4ORXznmIVTpXiN3TX8nRGA8ayuTZ9ECI/edit?ts=5fd11436#heading=h.ccgtgjykcfgh > [2] https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Etiquette > ------- > *Allan Mustard, Chairperson* > *Board of Directors* > *OpenStreetMap Foundation* >
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