<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Emilie for highlighting my points about privilege. While gender is certainly a diversity problem in OpenStreetMap it isn't the only issue. </div><div><br></div>I wanted to share another thing we could all do to assist in hearing diverse views. We could simple listen. I make it a point not to send too many emails on the assorted OSM mailing lists in a day. It is easy to respond to every email and tell people you don't agree with them. Recently my roommate Mathew Lippincott gave a talk at FOSS4G regarding diversity and provided a handout to help guide conversations(1). It is a simple guide, I don't unfortunately have a digital copy other than the picture at the moment. Though this is the outline.<div><br></div><div><div>The Flux Guide to Respectful Conversation</div><div><br></div><div>*Share time with everybody</div><div>*Take three seconds to think</div><div>*Find empathy for others</div><div>*Understanding isn't necessary</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>-Kate</div><div><div><br></div><div>(1)<a href="https://twitter.com/wonderchook/status/509840349997457408">https://twitter.com/wonderchook/status/509840349997457408</a><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Emilie Laffray <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emilie.laffray@gmail.com" target="_blank">emilie.laffray@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>I have been reading the thread and I have so far refrained from intervening. </div><div>First of all, I want to say I agree with you and I could probably cite a few occasions where some comments or behaviors have been inappropriate. I am going to refrain from naming and shaming because it won't help and it will only stir more conversations. </div><div><br></div><div>I have participated to a lot of those studies on Women in tech and also in OpenStreetMap. The recurring question is how do we get more women in the community?</div><div><br></div><div>Actually, I have no idea. Why do people like Kate or me are getting involved in some activities because we like it and maybe because we have a slightly thicker skin than some but I can see why you may not want to participate more: not everyone is willing to face comments all the time. I can't say that I find OSM community particularly against women but I have seen a few cases where being a woman in OSM can be hard. We are far from the now infamous #gamergate<br></div><div><br></div><div>The other point that we lost in the discussion is the representation of "minorities" and the concept that Kate has pushed of privileged and non privileged.</div><div>Because of what I believe I do not strongly believe that we will improve the situation by setting up quotas in the first for both categories. They are a patch not fixing the underlying causes (well I will not go further as I definitely don't have the answers).</div><div><br></div><div>There are probably a few leads that can be followed by being more proactive to intervene in stopping some toxic behaviors but then again as discussed before, words exchanged in a corridor with someone mocking calling you darling are going to be difficult to stop in the first place.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding the issue of privileged, I think some aspect of it can be solved by reducing some barrier of entry but as I have observed reducing the barrier of entry for non privileged end up creating another set of privileged among the unprivileged but it is a pretty good step forward. I will always remember one of the presentation of how mapping was done in Cuba during SOTM Amsterdam: with paper and pen mostly.</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, we also need to realize that vectorial drawing will always remain hard for most people in the first place and due to the nature of minorities and privilege, these are the people that will not have the right training from the start to do it. </div><div><br></div><div>I don't have answers but that doesn't prevent us from trying to move forward without starting name calling or that something doesn't exist. The fact is 3% of mappers are female.</div><div><br></div><div>I can only encourage Kate to continue to move forward and on these points, I support her completely. Her understanding of topics like "minorities" or non privileged is excellent thanks to one being one of the "minority" and two having lived in place where the majority of people are non privileged.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Emilie Laffray</div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 September 2014 14:56, Dan Stowell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danstowell@gmail.com" target="_blank">danstowell@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>2014-09-26 22:19 GMT+01:00 Steve Doerr <<a href="mailto:doerr.stephen@gmail.com" target="_blank">doerr.stephen@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
> On 26/09/2014 15:54, John Crowley wrote:<br>
> > In my years working in communities, I keep seeing the same pattern. Someone speaks up about misogyny or other aggression in general, then someone demands specific evidence, silencing the conversation. It is often not intended, but those seeking data should realize that they need to start by listening, not challenging.<br>
><br>
> No they don't. The people making accusations need to provide evidence. Otherwise it's defamation. If there's no evidence, they made it up - simple as that.<br>
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</span>Steve, I really do understand your wish for evidence, it's an<br>
important motivation. But firstly, it's not defamation if people have<br>
referred to previous experience without identifying the alleged. It<br>
would be defamation if they were identifying the alleged. (This<br>
highlights at least one reason why it's problematic to demand<br>
evidence.) Secondly, it's really quite rude to say that if there's no<br>
supporting evidence, "they made it up". If someone witnesses something<br>
but we don't see evidence beyond their own testimony, we don't usually<br>
assume that it's fabricated, do we?<br>
<br>
Other people have already put it better than me. To quote: "Dear men:<br>
<span>the big mistake we could make and need to avoid is to look at recent<br>
mailing list postings, not see anyone blatantly bashing women, and<br>
assume there's not a problem. Sexism happens in quiet ways publicly<br>
and loud ways privately - off-list posts, quick exchanges on IRC,<br>
sexual harassment at every tech conference ever. Outing those<br>
encounters can be socially impossible, or it can even be a legal<br>
matter. This is one place where [citation needed] is incredibly<br>
inappropriate."<br>
<br>
</span>Best<br>
<span><font color="#888888">Dan<br>
</font></span><div><div><br>
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