Thanks, Juan. As a university instructor, I can only think there is something we're doing wrong, both in unis and in local groups, because the ratio is even worse at MPUG than at my 1st year classes.
And it's still better than at the last two places I've worked at... Anyway, this is not just about gender balance. For instance, in my uni classes I remember many international students, let's call them "non-English as a first language". The ratio in local groups is much, much lower. In such a multicultural city! A Code of Conduct is only a small step. More ideas welcome. Javier On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Juan Nunez-Iglesias <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 for this! > > As you say, no *reported* incidents doesn't mean no need. In fact, I was > appalled that there was just one woman in the room when I talked about > SciPy's diversity problem last year. I hope a code of conduct is just our > first effort to improve diversity in our monthly meetings. > > Thank you! > > Juan. > > > > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Javier Candeira <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Today, reading Kathy Levinson's powerful piece on sexism and >> whistleblowing [1], I've realised that MPUG doesn't have a Code of >> Conduct. >> >> [1] >> https://medium.com/@katylevinson/sexism-in-tech-don-t-ask-me-unless-you-re-ready-to-call-somebody-a-whistleblower-e5d545e547b0 >> >> Yeah, "we've never have had problems in the past" yada yada, but I've >> never had to file a police report for assault either, that doesn't >> mean laws on assault aren't needed. So I'd like to add a reference to >> a Code of Conduct to our wiki page, and to mention that the organisers >> will personally do our best to enforce it. >> >> I like Pycon's CoC [2], but it mentions Pycon and Linux Australia, >> which have nothing to do with us, except we're a Python User Group and >> some of us also attend those... hardly a legal afiliation. I also >> like the Apache Foundationś CoC [3], though it's a bit too long. What >> the Pycon one loses in exhaustiveness, it gains in brevity. >> >> [2] http://2013.pycon-au.org/register/code_of_conduct >> [3] https://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct.html >> >> I'd definitely much rather not have to write and maintain a CoC >> myself. Any idea of a clean "white-label" CoC that we can just link >> to? I know, lazy, but I'd like to get this done tonight. >> >> If no suggestion comes for a better solution, I'll add a line to the >> wiki stating that MPUG meetings are not ran by Pycon or Linux >> Australia, but its organisers adhere to Pycon's Code of Conduct in >> matters of civility and inclusivity. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Javier >> _______________________________________________ >> melbourne-pug mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug > > > > _______________________________________________ > melbourne-pug mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug > _______________________________________________ melbourne-pug mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug
