El sáb., 14 abr. 2018 20:27, María Arias de Reyna <dela...@gmail.com> escribió:
> Dear all, > > We haven't had much movement around this subject since the call-out. > And this is bad. Very bad. This means one or more of the following: > * Our community is too heterogeneous, we have no diverse members. My bad, I meant homogeneous. * Diverse members of our community feel too disconected to participate. > * Diverse members of our community are too overworked to volunteer on > this. > > So now I want to mobilize the not-diverse members of our community to > reach our members from diversity target groups. Please, talk to them, > make sure they feel comfortable and included and make sure they are > not overworking to be with us. > > I think I don't need to explain to you why an heterogenous community > is bad in the long term sustainability. We have barriers we are > possibly not even aware of and it is difficult to get rid of them if > we don't have input from people suffering from those barriers (like, I > didn't realize how difficult it is to get to a conference on a > wheelchair until I saw it with my own eyes). We are losing a lot of > talent by not taking care of this. > > Kind Regards, > María. > > > On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 2:08 PM, María Arias de Reyna <dela...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Dear fellow members, > > > > We have had some discussions running in the last months regarding how > > to improve diversity and inclusivity inside OSGeo. If you feel part of > > a target group for diversity and inclusiveness, I would like to ask > > for your help and volunteer to help us improving our guidelines and > > conducts. Even if you haven't been a very visible or active member of > > OSGeo until now, this is important because your point of view is > > difficult to reach from a privileged perspective. > > > > What is a target group for diversity? > > We don't want to have a strict list here, our goal is to have a > > diverse and wide range pool of points of views that can watch and > > review OSGeo to make sure we don't leave anyone behind. > > > > Some examples: POC, WIT, LGBT+, economic diversity. But we don't want > > to stop there. If you are blind, neurodiverse, on a wheelchair, or > > anything you think that we should take into consideration, please, > > volunteer too. > > > > What are we calling out for? Well, at least we have two starting points > here: > > * Review CoC for FOSS4G and help organization in making it as more > > diverse as possible. > > * Review CoC for OSGeo. > > > > What do I ask you right now? If you want to help, please, do the > following: > > * Join the CoC mailint list and say hi: > > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/coc-discuss > > * Help here: https://github.com/foss4g2018/foss4g2018/issues/65 > > > > This is all volunteer work and we won't ask you to do anything more > > than you can give. But remember that without your point of view, we > > can't make OSGeo easier to reach for people with your profile. And we > > want to welcome everybody as much as possible. > > > > Thank you very much, > > María. > > OSGeo, President. >
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