Hi Kate,
I came up with a 1st September deadline in my head because I don't want
the FOSS4G event to come along without some sort of way to handle
reports. We can ignore the deadline, but I wanted to let everyone know
that a process is really needed, besides text on a webpage. You and I
and others were part of these offline implementation plan discussions,
which were great, but I think it stalled when selecting the name of the
committee.
Maybe what is best is if we move those private discussions to here, on
this list.
I do notice now that Camille has been recently adding to the initial
wiki page for the possible committee:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/CodeOfConduct_Committee
As noted in offline discussions, we can always create a new wiki page if
we need to rename the committee.
-jeff
On 2015-06-24 11:21 AM, Kate Chapman wrote:
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] <mailto:[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
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