[Eg-oversight-board] eg-oversight-board Digest, Vol 55, Issue 47

[Grace Dunbar]

Thanks for the  clarification, Galen!

I move to amend the proposed language before the Board to incorporate "age".
The proposed Code of Conduct revision for the Board's consideration is now:
"...regardless of gender, *gender identity and expression*, sexual
orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, *age* or
religion."

Grace

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 8:05 PM, Grace Dunbar <gdunbar at esilibrary.com>
> wrote:
> > I'll let this sit until the morning for any further discussion before
> > calling for a vote.
>
> To add some background, the wording used in the Evergreen Code of
> Conduct has its origins in the JSConf code of conduct, which in turn
> draws from the Geek Feminism Wiki's model code [1]. The corresponding
> clause from the Geek Feminism model reads:
>
>   $CONFERENCE is dedicated to providing a harassment-free
>   conference experience for everyone [, regardless of gender,
>   gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability,
>   physical appearance, body size, race, age or religion
>   [insert any other specific concerns here]].
>
> "Gender identity and expression" was added to that model on 26 May
> 2013, but hadn't yet propagated to the JSConf version at the time we
> were drafting Evergreen's code. That said, adding "gender identity and
> expression" is, IMO, a clarification of the intent of the Evergreen
> code of conduct, not a change to its intent (i.e., we're not asserting
> that harassment based on gender identity and expression was previously
> OK; they were not).
>
> I note that the the Geek Feminism version also explicitly mentions
> "age"; I suggest that the EOB consider including that as well in the
> interests of keeping the code of conference aligned with the Geek
> Feminism model.
>
> [1] http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassment/Policy
>
> Regards,
>
> Galen
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