Hi Jo,
This all looks good to me! Some thoughts in response:
1) Code of conduct / diversity statement
I think it's interesting that both you and Kathleen (whose list of
suggestions on the OSMF mailing list was widely supported) opened with
this idea. So maybe it's the first thing we (meaning
I think the right way forward is to focus on directed efforts, rather
than try to have a single, unified code of conduct at the start.
This is for a few reasons:
1. I tried to create a CoC from the top down in 2010. It didn't work.
People don't like top down things imposed upon them.
2. There
Paul list,
Interesting point. The most recent (and only) survey of OSM contributors
that I'm aware of is the survey put together last spring by Severin Menard
to measure motivations of those contributing to HOT/OSM.[1] It asks for
very little by way of demographic characteristics (e.g. race,
thanks for this thread! some abbreviated thoughts:
1. +1 on the plan suggested!
2. there's been some research (will get links) that suggest targeted outreach
to women builds overall diversity. at Mapzen we're supporting the gonna
outreach program for women that sponsors an intern for HOT.
HI all,
A few of us have recently put together a Code of Conduct for OSM mailing
lists as a place to start, and I believe some moderators are going to start
adopting it soon. Here it is:
https://github.com/osmlab/CoC-mailing-lists/blob/master/code_of_conduct.md .
Please let me know how I can
