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Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2016 and diversity
Cameron,
Yes, your point was very hard to miss. I don't think you need to police this
thread quite so hard though. :-)
For what it's worth, it makes good business & innovation sense to do more than
1% or so.
YMMV th
Cameron,
Yes, your point was very hard to miss. I don't think you need to police this
thread quite so hard though. :-)
For what it's worth, it makes good business & innovation sense to do more than
1% or so.
YMMV though,
Andrea
On May 30, 2016 10:54:06 PM EDT, Cameron Shorter
Marc, Andrea,
My point I'm hoping to make is that I think we might be spending more
time discussing ethical code-of-conduct type questions than I think we
need to. Yes it is important. Yes we need to flag bad behaviour and
resolve it. But hopefully we can limit such discussions to 1% (or so)
Cameron,
That's an unexpected response. Was someone suggesting OSGeo should be a
forum for human rights?
Kind regards,
Andrea
On 30/05/16 17:28, Cameron Shorter wrote:
All,
While I'm hugely in favour of mutual respect, and I personally
co-authored the OSGeo Code-Of-Conduct, I feel that
Cameron,
I think you misunderstood the aim of my comment.
I am not talking about human rights as such. (Unless they are threatened, of
course)
I am addressing the need to guard and promote our inclusivity. If we want to
grow and develop as a community we need to take any past/present/future
All,
While I'm hugely in favour of mutual respect, and I personally
co-authored the OSGeo Code-Of-Conduct, I feel that OSGeo shouldn't aim
to be a forum for human rights. (There are other places for this).
Our primary focus should be on supporting the creation of great OSGeo
code, and
Thanks Andrea,
You are quite right, unfortunately. Sharing and discussing experiences and
insights on this could come across as negative.
The same happened when I read an earlier discussion on a Code of Conduct for
conferences. Frankly I was abhorred that such code was deemed necessary. Until
Marc,
I started to write a whole bunch of thoughts related to this but instead
decided against as I felt it was stating the obvious and I didn't want
the thoughts to be perceived as negative.
The essence was that these things you have listed are great, and they
help keep things from being
Dear all,
To build upon the positive results as mentioned in the thread below, I invite
anyone to supply any suggestion that may support the LOC FOSS4G 2016 in Bonn
Germany, regarding diversity related policies during the actual Conference.
Either directly to me or via this list.
As LOC we
