[diversity-talk] NYC local disagreement

[alyssa wright]

Thanks, Serge for more of the history and context. I would be interested in looking at your original documents and discussing if it's possible/appropriate to resurrect  some of these conversations.

Alyssa.

On Jun 28, 2013, at 11:50 AM, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Darrell Fuhriman <darrell at garnix.org> wrote:
> 
>> I totally understand the foundation not wanting to get involved in individual disagreements, that doesn't absolve the foundation (or the community generally) from their responsibility to ensure that the community is as inclusive as possible.
> 
> Darrell,
> 
> When we founded the US chapter, one of my first agenda items was the
> creation of a Community Code of Conduct, one that would serve not only
> the US, but we could use as a boilerplate for the Foundation.
> 
> At the time, this wasn't a popular idea and while I had several
> drafts, they were never voted on, either by the US Chapter, nor the
> OSMF. There were also several serious concerned raised about having
> such a process, ones that I never had a good answer to (such as where
> to draw the relationship line, who would be voting on these issues,
> what the process for voting would be, what to do about amendments or
> changes, and if having a formal document might actually harm the
> community by creating a series of rules.
> 
> While I was the person who wanted a Code of Conduct, I did not have a
> good answer to these questions, and we had other, more immediate
> concerns.
> 
> If someone would like to work on this I believe my drafts were either
> on the OSM wiki, or on Google Docs, and I can dig them out if they'd
> be of interest.
> 
> As for the relationship between local groups and either the OSMF or
> the national chapters, that's a bit unclear. When we founded the US
> Chapter, we discussed creating a formalized relationship between the
> Chapter and the local groups, but those discussions did not result in
> any formal proposal.
> 
> I'm certainly encouraged that this issue is being brought up again, I
> think that having a Community Code of Conduct is important, and I'd be
> happy to participate in re-engaging that process either as part of the
> US Chapter, or OSMF.
> 
> - Serge
> 
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