On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 13:23 +0200, Anne Østergaard wrote: [...] > I have personally had the feeling over the past couple of years that the > general atmosphere in the GNOME community has hardened. Although I am not sure what you mean by hardened here, it doesn't sound good.
> I fully agree with Bill and others here and I think we have to establish > a gender action plan within GNOME, Ubuntu etc. A non-discrimination policy would be a useful thing to do. The city of Toronto has a fairly good one, devised in conjunction with a large number of minority groups over a long period: http://www.toronto.ca/grants/pdf/declaration_non_discrimination_policy.pdf It was printed on a huge multilingual poster (including Braille) and distributed widely. Creation or adoption of such a policy is not the same as saying that there is discrimination, of course -- it is saying that discrimination isn't OK. Gnome has done ground-breaking work on accessibility, on internationalisation, and on usability. This work ought to be sending a strong message that diversity is welcomed. Beyond that I am not sure how to get more women involved. One difficulty is cultural in many parts of the world, unfortunately: girls are often trained to turn to boys when something needs fixing. To get back on topic of the original thread, I'd rather see some non-discrimination non-violence policies in place and then a code of conduct would consist of "follow the guidelines". Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list