On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 11:56 AM Galen Pickett <[email protected]> wrote:
> OUSA has an elected board, accepts monetary payments, and is nonprofit (I > hope). > Indeed, OrigamiUSA is a registerd 501(c)3 charitable corporation. > And there is a convention subcommittee. > > Ordinarily, the Board is the body who is *insured* and has the authority > to just by fiat state what the CoC will be. > > The discussion to this point is solely advisory, isn't it? The process > would usually be for the convention committee to propose CoC and for the > board to approve them. > > And then it is up to individuals in the community to decide if they can > live with those. What is the value to the community cross-talk on this > issue? Particularly *now* when every single last social media platform is > tuned to stoke outrage and crosstalk. > > I have no guidance on what the content of CoC should be, but are not all > the options and issues clear for an agendized Board discussion and decision? > This entire discussion is not specifically about any one organization, nor its specific CoC, if it has one. This mailing list has exactly nothing to do with OrigamiUSA, as it is a public list unaffiliated with any origami association. (It is true, of course, that I am a member of that organization, as are, I'm sure, a great many general list members.) We offered the list as a discussion forum specifically to try to de-outrage and rationalize some discourse, since that clearly wasn't happening elsewhere. This is intended to be a *community* discussion, to help spread awareness of the issues, their seriousness, and perhaps to give community members a chance to help advocate for convention organizers (any of them, anywhere, not any one) to consider adopting or modifying such policies. Anne
