Re: [Diversity-talk] Diversity and Inclusion session - SOTM

[Liz Barry]

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On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 10:53 AM Heather Leson 
wrote:

> HI folks, building on last year's Open Gender Monologues, I am submitting
> a session for SOTM on Diversity and Inclusion. The deadline is today but I
> am hoping we can all co-create the plans.
>
> "The OSM community is global and diverse. Building on last year's Open
> Heroines conversation, we will co-create a space for OSM to talk about how
> to improve diversity and inclusion in our amazing project. All welcome. "
>
>
> How can OSM be more diverse and inclusive? Join us to share your lessons
> and ideas on how we might grow and support a Diversity and Inclusive
> approach in OSM. This is an activity taking place across other 'open'
> communities.
>
> We will ask participants to co-create plans and identify how we might
> incorporate it into small and big activities within the global network.
>
> The format will be co-created with some potential outcomes. The goal is to
> be a conversation with interactive, participatory methods and some small
> group work.
>
> See more about this topic:
> https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2019/03/04/open-source-inclusion/
> https://opensourcediversity.org/
> https://github.com/mozilla/diversity
>
> All the best
>
> Heather
>
> Heather Leson
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> Twitter/skype: HeatherLeson
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Re: [Diversity-talk] "The Post-Meritocracy Manifesto"

[Liz Barry]

Thank you for this.
The concept of meritocracy is referenced in the explanatory documents of
early open source communities (Apache, Mozilla, ...).

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On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 12:19 PM, Rory McCann  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Here's an interesting page & project:
>
> https://postmeritocracy.org/
>
> Meritocracy is a founding principle of the open source movement, and
>> the ideal of meritocracy is perpetuated throughout our field in the
>> way people are recruited, hired, retained, promoted, and valued.
>>
>> But meritocracy has consistently shown itself to mainly benefit those
>> with privilege, to the exclusion of underrepresented people in
>> technology. The idea of merit is in fact never clearly defined;
>> rather, it seems to be a form of recognition, an acknowledgement that
>> “this person is valuable insofar as they are like me.”
>>
>> It is time that we as an industry abandon the notion that merit is
>> something that can be measured, can be pursued on equal terms by
>> every individual, and can ever be distributed fairly.
>>
>
> Some good points & values. 
>
> Rory
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Re: [Diversity-talk] Code of Conduct & Moderation for this list

[Liz Barry]

These links are so great, i am really appreciating this thread! I will be
+1 on whatever CoC the group is into practicing on this listserve, it will
be a big step forward.

The HOT Complaint Handling Process is super clear -- something like this,
and like the reporting structure of OSGeo, is critical for a CoC to come
into practice and not just be another poster on the wall/web. Similarly,
check out the process described at the top of the anonymous reporting form
on publiclab.org/conduct. http://sage.thesharps.us/ is a great reference on
this.

Being based in rights was critical for Public Lab as we set up a CoC to
describe how we want to relate to each other, which goes beyond stopping
harassment as it reframes the internal power dynamics of open source
communities from being like a clubhouse to being like a society. It is
useful to explain with clear, mundane examples how to relate to each other
when introducing sometimes abstract / high minded principles of
responsibility, empathy, dignity, consent.

Adjacently, I will mention the book "Conflict Is Not Abuse" by Sarah
Schulman, which details in a very readable, relatable manner the cost of
*not* figuring out how to hold a caring democratic space amongst each other
-- the extension of external power into our individual and community lives.
I have an inkling that some of the dynamics that she walks through might
apply to some of the misunderstandings about CoCs that we've seen in OSM --
perhaps not enough self-checking, meaning that those whose actions are
sometimes harassing to others actually perceive themselves as victims and
continue to escalate in a misdirected effort against peers to resist the
perceived expansion of external power, when in fact, these escalations only
weaken our community from the inside out. I would happily re-read this book
and book club it with any group of people thinking deeply about open source
community health.

I am really grateful for everyone here, thanks for reading,
Liz

PS, in case you still feel like reading, here's the full sourcing of the
lineage that we pulled into Public Lab's CoC 
(copied from about halfway down in this post

).

We framed the very top of the document with language from in-person
democratic space holding that emphasizes the combination of respect and
responsibility. The sentiment of "for democracy to work for everybody..."
as practiced by the Highlander Center for grassroots organizing and
movement building in Appalachia / the South is described in the book by
Miles Horton "The Long Haul: an autobiography". Also see
http://highlandercenter.org/. We also drew from the Jemez Principles for
Democratic Organizing  which was written
in 1996 by forty people of color and European-American representatives who
met in Jemez, New Mexico with an "intention of hammering out common
understandings between participants from different cultures, politics and
organizations." Carla
 added the
clarifying points on dignity during interactions.

For the fundamentals, we looked to the Ada Initiative guide to writing
Codes of Conduct (CoCs)
https://adainitiative.org/2014/02/18/howto-design-a-code-of-conduct-for-your-community/,
specifically these three points:

   - List specific common behaviors that are not okay
   - Include detailed directions for reporting violations
   - Have a defined and documented complaint handling process

Over that, we added a heavy overlay of JoyConf consent and empathy culture:
https://github.com/maitria/code-of-welcome/blob/master/coc.md
Refinements

   - After Geek Feminism http://geekfeminism.org/about/code-of-conduct/ and
   Django https://www.djangoproject.com/conduct/, we described the set of
   spaces that our community is active in and to which the CoC applies
   - From @Mathew  suggestion of
   http://stumptownsyndicate.org/about/guiding-principles/ we added a list
   of who the CoC applies to, seeking to level status
   - @Klie  designed the reporting
   process via anonymous online submission form, and converted the list of
   unwanted behaviors to "Do's and Don'ts":
   https://goo.gl/forms/Ma6lEkZ0TuE7D9FZ2 (updated for 2017)
   - @Kanarinka  wrote in our
   existing practice of checking in before posting people on social media
   - Potentially unique to Public Lab, we created a dual moderators group
   and facilitation group which cannot entirely be described by an
   online/offline dichotomy. The Addendum clarifies that staff of the
   non-profit are additionally bound by their Employment handbooks which meet
   federal and state laws.
   - Generally, a lot of solid and clarifying editing by Nick, Shannon,
   Klie, Carla and Public Lab staffers, and the organizers.

Re: [Diversity-talk] Diversity in FOSS projects Call

[Liz Barry]

Thank you so much for sharing this!
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From: Selene Yang <seleneya...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 12:17 PM
Subject: [Diversity-talk] Diversity in FOSS projects Call
To: OSM Diversity <diversity-talk@openstreetmap.org>


Hi! There's a call going on about diversity in FOSS communities. This
activity is led by Emma Irwin from Mozilla. You can watch the call here:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3aPHZpgAls
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3aPHZpgAls>

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Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping Klong Toey Slums

[Liz Barry]

Hi everyone,
It is inspiring to hear of these projects in Bangkok and Cartagena! <3

Depending on the wind and when the rainy season is about to start in
Bangkok, putting a kite up in the air with a small camera could be the
fastest and most community-engaged / hands-on / accessible / repeatable way
to get aerial imagery:
http://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/learning-news/524907/the-kite-flying-season-in-bangkok

Once you have an aerial photo (by balloon/kite/drone/really long bamboo
pole :), you can place
(georeference) it in http://mapknitter.org/, then it's one click to loading
that base imagery in any/all of OSM's editors for tracing over.

I copied the grassroots mapping list where there are people to chat with
about DIY aerial imagery for mapping.

Yours,
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On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 6:23 PM, hyan...@gmail.com 
wrote:

> Hi Mishari,
>
> I can share from the experience to mapping slums in Cartagena, Colombia
> with a Latinamerican NGO called TECHO (is not an acronym), plus the last
> steps that you list (a, b, c) we started mapping the past using Bing
> imagery (normally have imagery date); then a small aerial filming company 
> donate
> drone flights  to map the
> present.  After that we count double of houses that community leader
> beleive that exists; but using filedpapers on the field we get exact number
> of houses an his conditions
> 
> (like presence of tilts to deal with floods).
>
> Pictures from mobiles apps and ballons just serve as helpers, but maybe
> could be some security issues, so we prefer to use papers, all the steps
> always include community members.
>
> This actually is a methodology for mapping slums in connection of every
> house as spatial element with household surveys that give us a clear
> picture of community dimensions, so useful for his inner development.
>
> I'm glad to say that now this slum is on the way to became a formal
> neighborhood and OSM map is the base to achieve that, so mapping slums can
> be a tool for poverty overcome, because as a formal one, they can be part
> of local administration planning services and budget, and of course, with
> all this information (that became in knowledge throught action) they know
> how to proceed in his development path.
>
> I humbly hope this could help with your question; if not feel free to come
> with more,
>
> Humberto Yances
>
>
> 2016-07-14 5:58 GMT-05:00 Mishari Muqbil :
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just wanted to feedback from the community for our effort to map the
>> slums in Klong Toey, Bangkok. The size of the area is about 1km x 2 km
>> around here  and
>> I have captured a sequence on Mapillay here
>> .
>> There are several challenges here including access to internet and English
>> literacy, so I have come up with the following rough plan.
>>
>> 1. Put out a call for volunteers, work with NGOs in the area to find
>> local kids who are interested in putting their community on the map.
>> 2. Train the kids in using ID editor. I think I will limit them to doing
>> specific things i.e. walkways, houses, trees, restaurant, convenience
>> stores with individual kids limited to 2-3 features to avoid confusion then
>> as they get the hang of it, increase their repertoire.
>> 3. Take over a local internet cafe for a day for training and mapping
>> purpose.
>>
>> Now I'm not sure about the rest of the process, you can see from
>> Mapillary that due to the somewhat dense nature of the community, GPS is
>> inaccurate and neither Bing nor Mapbox has enough of a resolution to be
>> meaningful. So I have several (possibly overlapping) ideas.
>>
>> a) hire or borrow a drone to take aerial imagery and upload to
>> openaerialmap and use that as a basemap but I'm not sure how possible it
>> will be to see through the roofs.
>> b) get a team of surveyor students from Prof. Garavig to map out the
>> paths in the community (it's pretty big so I'm not sure how tine consuming
>> it is) then have the community kids fill in the blank.
>> c) use walking papers and have the kids go out, sketching what they see
>> from the rooftop but I feel this may be prone to errors.
>>
>> Does anyone have any experience or tips they can share on how we can
>> achieve this?
>>
>> Best regards
>> Mishari
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Re: [OSM-talk] Www.openstreetmap.org Down?

[Liz Barry]

maybe something local. no tiles loading for me in Brooklyn, NYC USA

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On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Grant Slater
openstreet...@firefishy.comwrote:

 The site is up and traffic is at expected levels.

 Does the site not respond at all or a part not load?

 If there were a major outage it would be reported here:
 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Platform_Status

 Regards
  Grant
  Part of OSM sysadmin team.


 On 14 August 2013 20:33, Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com wrote:

 Is it?

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Re: [OSM-talk] comments on new map widget on main page

[Liz Barry]

+1

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On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Michal Migurski m...@teczno.com wrote:

 On Jul 29, 2013, at 2:57 PM, Lester Caine wrote:

  John Firebaugh wrote:
  On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com
  mailto:g...@ir.bbn.com wrote:
 
 I'd like to see two things different; both of these are regressions
 from
 the old way and I think easy to address
 
  I believe that persisting the location and zoom in the URL hash will
 address
  both of these concerns.
 
  Please try it out: http://hash.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/
 
  That works reasonably well for me  I'm used to seeing that sort of
 info from the hover over links on the bottom of the browser, so having it
 stable is probably an improvement.


 +1.

 
 michal migurski- contact info and pgp key:
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Re: [OSM-talk] RFC updated: OSM Attribution Mark (was: contributor mark)

[Liz Barry]

+1 to Alex's original post -- the new attribution mark is well designed
and versatile for its purposes. The shape of the folded map links the
attribution mark with our logo.

+1 spiffed up copyright page BUT the proportion of image to information
above the fold still needs finetuning, as well as the exact text.


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:

 John,


 On 04/24/2013 03:56 PM, the Old Topo Depot wrote:

 The proposed mark is very well suited as a replacement.  It is simple,
 minimalistic, and works well on a variety of backgrounds.


 You wrote the above as a +1 to a statement from Mike Cuttler that said

  What should be done first is establishing good visual identity for
 OpenStreetMap, primarily through logo (both long 'OpenStreetMap' and
 short 'OSM' version) with special attention for usability - meaning
 that we should be able to put it everywhere and brand would be
 recognizable.


 Are you therefore saying that what has been designed as an attribution
 mark should be our new logo, or are you saying that there does not have to
 be a likeness between the logo and the attribution mark?

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Re: [OSM-talk] RFC updated: OSM Attribution Mark (was: contributor mark)

[Liz Barry]

I quickly put the logo side by side with the attribution mark. I feel it is
clearly of the same family, linked by

   1. the shape of the folded map
   2. the color grey in the magnifying glass handle

i uploaded the JPG to twitter --
https://twitter.com/lizbarry/status/327071379105120257

What do you think?


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Kathleen Danielson 
kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com wrote:

 I agree wholeheartedly with Mike's points about the current branding
 around the project. However, as there has been generally positive feedback
 for the design of this attribution mark, would it make sense to move
 forward with using the attribution mark (since it addresses an immediate
 problem) and use that as a jumping off point for rebranding OSM? Rebranding
 is no small task, and it seems like it would be a shame to hold off on
 going ahead with what (I'm hearing) most folks think is a good initiative
 so that we can complete a rebranding initiative first.



 On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.orgwrote:

 On 24/04/2013 16:03, Frederik Ramm wrote:

 Are you therefore saying that what has been designed as an attribution
 mark should be our new logo, or are you saying that there does not have to
 be a likeness between the logo and the attribution mark?


 Let me add the following alternative : there has to be a likeness between
 the logo and the attribution mark, in order to maintain the visual
 consistency of the brand - whatever the chosen design.


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