Hi Jeff, I thought this comment deserved its own discussion. While I agree that not having an implementation plan for the Code of Conduct is not acceptable I view it as just as unacceptable to switch to a diversity statement. When I registered for FOSS4G last week it was with the understanding that OSGEO has adopted a Code of Conduct. If this is simply switched to a diversity statement I will not be attending FOSS4G. I am not the only women I know that would feel the same way.
I do not attend conferences without a Code of Conduct and some companies do not sponsor conferences without a Code of Conduct. I will assist in the implementation, but I am not leading it. I am willing to volunteer as a contact to assist people at FOSS4G if the implementation plan includes the need for a contact person (which I suspect it would). -Kate On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 5:03 AM, Jeff McKenna <[email protected] > wrote: > I thank Sanghee for bringing this to the community. I want to point out > that having just a "Code of Conduct", words, on a website is not enough, > there needs to be a whole structure of how to handle this. In bold > letters I want to state publicly: there is currently no implementation > plan for the OSGeo Code of Conduct. This is not acceptable. A few good > volunteers have been discussing offline how to setup an implementation > plan, as well as possibly even a new OSGeo committee for this, great, > but, it is still in discussion stage. Without some sort of plan, > community members are already contacting me directly with reports, and I > have no formal way to handle these reports. (Sanghee was nice enough to > help me solve this together publicly, but, this obviously cannot apply > to all reports) > > I suggest, propose, that if there is no implementation plan for the Code > of Conduct by the 1st of September, that the Code of Conduct is removed > from all visible OSGeo pages, and is replaced with a simple Diversity > statement. > > I am sorry for being direct here, but, as you can see, this needs to > move forward, or not at all. > > -jeff > > > -- > Jeff McKenna > President, OSGeo > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna > >
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