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

[Amy Terlaga]

I second the motion. 

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Amy Terlaga
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> On Apr 1, 2016, at 12:37 PM, Grace Dunbar <gdunbar at esilibrary.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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> 
> 
> 
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