[Osmf-talk] [OSM-talk] Call to Take Action and Confront Systemic Offensive Behavior in the OSM Community

[Johann Haag]

Instead of pointing out local groups to OSM Wiki, granting their own
interpretations and their own administration rights, then this does not
make OpenStreetMap better, but we split OpenStreetMap into small kingdoms.
Local contributors are then no longer part of a global community, but
subordinates of local kings.

Am So., 10. Jan. 2021 um 22:37 Uhr schrieb Robert Kaiser <kairo at kairo.at>:

> Allan Mustard schrieb:
> >      We have asked the Local Chapters and Communities Working Group
> >      (LCCWG ) to take the lead on this and to work with signatories of
> >      the open letter to the Board [1] as well as members of the Diversity
> >      and Inclusion Special Committee to produce proposals for the Board
> >      to consider at its January meeting.  The LCCWG has accepted this
> >      task.  This issue will be on the agenda of the January meeting of
> >      the Board of Directors, exact time and date yet to be determined,
> >      though as is customary it will be posted to the Foundation's website
> >      well in advance.
>
> Thanks for taking this on, I think it's good to have a set of rules or
> guidelines written down - and enforced - so all people participating in
> the community can feel to be in a safe space when taking part in any
> actions and discussions.
>
> Many of us feel like we should not need a CoC or similar because it
> should be common sense to treat everyone else with respect and don't
> discriminate against other groups or minorities, and I agree that it
> SHOULD not be necessary to have such rules - but reality unfortunately
> shows that there are people who end up undermining that common sense and
> then you actually need such an instrument. Also, due to bad experiences
> in their past, a number of people in underrepresented groups tend to not
> feel safe if they don't know if such a framework exists and will be
> enforced if necessary.
>
> We had those discussions years ago in the Mozilla community as well, and
> we ended up with a document that I think is really good, and also
> managed to avoid the "code of conduct" name that feels pretty
> indoctrinating to some people, while still being very clear about what
> this all means, the name we ended up with is "Community Participation
> Guidelines". Note that I strongly believe that any such framework isn't
> worth much if there is no enforcement, so let's make sure we define that
> for OSM when we go into this - the Mozilla document has the
> surface-level information for that in the "Consequences" and "Reporting"
> sections - it's of course important to have a defined process of how to
> treat reports and how they lead to said consequences.
>
> The Mozilla document is here in its current version:
> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/participation/
>
> (Note: I am a long-term Mozilla community member, but just like in the
> OSM community, I'm not in any relevant power position there, I've just
> been a discussion participant when those guidelines were first designed.)
>
> I hope this can help as a constructive input to this topic.
>
> Cheers,
> KaiRo
>
>
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