Re: [Diversity-talk] Idea: Quarterly Projects for a traditionally underrepresented topic(s)/groups?

2018-04-17 Thread Paul Norman
On 3/26/2018 1:24 PM, Rory McCann wrote: Any ideas for topics? Some ideas - Regional languages. Is there a regional language you speak? Make sure that you're adding it to the map when objects have a name in that language. Unfortunately, this isn't great for a global project because not

Re: [Diversity-talk] Who Maps The World

2018-03-20 Thread Paul Norman
On 3/18/2018 3:23 PM, Charlotte Wolter wrote: Paul, A kindergarten is a school, not a child-care center. They are two fundamentally different things. Also, child-care centers serve a range of ages, not just 5-year-olds. I, too, tried to find a real child-care tag a few months ago. There is

Re: [Diversity-talk] Who Maps The World

2018-03-15 Thread Paul Norman
On 3/14/2018 6:47 PM, alyssa wright wrote: Hi all, City Lab article below on gender disparity in OSM. I actually think things have evolved and are more nuanced then ever before. Wondering if I am being naive. Yes - part of the thesis of the article is based around the claims of what gets

Re: [Diversity-talk] Code of Conduct & Moderation for this list

2018-03-01 Thread Paul Norman
On 2/28/2018 2:44 AM, Rory McCann wrote: Hi all, To follow up on the phone call, and waiting a little bit for people to join.  I think this list should have a Code of Conduct. I propose something like Geek Feminism's one. Thoughts?

Re: [diversity-talk] The recent unpleasantness

2014-12-02 Thread Paul Norman
On 12/2/2014 3:22 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Your justification for this seems to be behaviour outside of this list and/or, and this is the bit I take particular offense with, The private responses to me have generally expressed that is part of a pattern of behavior, and not an isolated incident.

Re: [diversity-talk] The recent unpleasantness

2014-12-02 Thread Paul Norman
On 12/2/2014 5:04 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: Am I to understand that felt Serge's comments were acceptable behavior? I was expecting to find that you at least didn't condone it. but sadly no where did you say Serge's comments were unacceptable. No where did I say that his comments were acceptable

Re: [diversity-talk] OSM code of conduct: starting points

2014-10-16 Thread Paul Norman
On 10/11/2014 3:48 PM, Darrell Fuhriman wrote: Here’s my question, and this needs to be clarified (probably deserves its own thread): Who is responsible for deciding what action needs to be taken in the case of CoC violations? A CoC without a body willing and able to enforce it is just

Re: [diversity-talk] OSM code of conduct: starting points

2014-10-09 Thread Paul Norman
On 10/8/2014 8:49 PM, Jo Walsh wrote: Okay, my gloss on this is that the Code of Conduct is a kind of shibboleth and a kind of insurance policy. You need one in order to be seen taking this stuff seriously The argument raised recently was that having a CoC helps diversity, and is not a