Hi,
I'm not sure our community is big enough for such a beast, but I'm always in favour of such things, partly because I have a non-traditional background in some respects. I hope that anyone who's been involved with kamaelia at any point in time has felt that they're welcome, and if they haven't my apologies for that, I can be socially inept at times. Anyway, personally I'm willing to work with anyone who's willing to move the project forward, and after seeing lots of handwringing on the python-diversity mailing list (including some which made me want to be elsewhere for a while), a statement was posted there which I quite liked: > >""" > >The Python community is a diverse, global community - and both it > >and the Python Software foundation welcomes and encourages > >participation by all people. Being a diverse community means we're > >based on mutual respect, tolerance, and encouragement. We > >continually strive to help each other live up to these ideals. > >""" with an addition by someone else > I think "strives to be a diverse, global community" would be more > accurate than "is" one. Anyway, I've drafted this as the kamaelia diversity statement: The Kamaelia community strives to be a diverse community, welcoming and encouraging participation by all people. This community is based on mutual respect, tolerance, and encouragement. We continually strive to help each other live up to and protect these ideals, and invite you to join us. I think that sums up everything that I'd want to say in such a statement. (It is what I'd like to see, even though I recognise I can be inept at times like many of us :-) It's also short & positive without being patronising, and quite frankly the code in the kamaelia *is* from a diverse collection of people, even if not all of them are around at the moment :) Assuming no major objections, I'll figure out somewhere sensible to put this - the website needs a revamp anyway. If someone does have major objections, please discuss it with me off-list - or preferably on #kamaelia on IRC. Regards, Michael. -- http://yeoldeclue.com/blog http://twitter.com/kamaelian http://www.kamaelia.org/Home --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "kamaelia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/kamaelia?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
