The big problem I have with this manifesto is that it brings divisive North American attitudes to a worldwide project. As a worldwide project, building a community of mappers from the whole world is our most important single diversity objective. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t encourage other underrepresented groups such as women, but we should step away from this kind of international combativeness and dog whistling. It may even be counterproductive: some feminists in my country think “diversity” has become a code word for misogyny.
-- Andrew ________________________________ From: Celine Jacquin <cel...@gmail.com> Sent: 09 December 2020 19:06 To: osmf-t...@openstreetmap.org <osmf-t...@openstreetmap.org>; talk@openstreetmap.org <talk@openstreetmap.org> Subject: [OSM-talk] Call to Take Action and Confront Systemic Offensive Behavior in the OSM Community Hello everybody I hope you are all well We, several groups, chapters, organizations and individuals, have reacted to the conversation in the osm-talk-list (https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2020-December/085692.html) considering that it is an incident symptomatic of the problem we have faced for many years in the community, which is one of the greatest obstacles to diversity at all levels of OSM. Time to make a real change. That is why we have developed a beginning of statement on the desirable mechanisms to work solidly on the rules of coexistence and improve diversity. We bring it to your attention and invite anyone who feels represented to sign it. Translations are in preparation (any help is welcome): https://docs.google.com/document/d/130JCTX9ve4H4ORXznmIVTpXiN3TX8nRGA8ayuTZ9ECI/edit?usp=sharing On behalf of the signatories Best regards Céline Jacquin
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