[Eg-oversight-board] North Carolina and the LGBT Community

[Grace Dunbar]

Hi,
I am troubled by the discriminatory nature of North Carolina's House Bill
no 2, as well.  I think the first thing to do would be to release some kind
of a statement of our project and our conference's support of diversity and
safety for all people.  Galen pointed me at one posted by the All Things
Open conference which happens to be in Raleigh in the fall.
http://allthingsopen.org/our-statement-all-things-open-2016/

I'd love to do something similar but since we don't have a mission
statement (?!?!) that details our support of free software, our
encouragement of diversity, an our general code of conduct for the
project... I think we'd have to take a slightly different tack in our
statement.  Which, of course, brings up the point... why don't we have a
mission statement and how can we expand our code of conduct to be more
specific about diversity issues and discriminatory practices.

Since we don't have that in place... yet, I will ask Tony at the SFC (as
the fiscal sponsor of the conference) to speak to the hotel venue and
explain our concerns with House Bill 2.  We want to ensure that they will
work with us to make our conference as inclusive and positive as possible.
I think it's important that the SFC handles this discussion because they
are the signatory on the contract with the venue and because the host
library is a State Agency and I wouldn't want to drag them into this
discussion.

Any reasons why I shouldn't proceed with Tony contacting the hotel?

Thanks!!
Grace



On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 6:41 AM, Tim Spindler <tjspindler at gmail.com> wrote:

> I also support but again I'm not sure what to do.
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:54 PM, Ruth Frasur <rfrasur at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I support this idea although I'm not sure what we should do.  Also open
>> to suggestions.  Shall continue thinking.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Amy Terlaga <terlaga at biblio.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all--
>>>
>>> In light of recent events in North Carolina, I was wondering if the
>>> Board might consider leading the way in showing the Evergreen community's
>>> support for the LGBT community in NC.  We'll be there in less than a month
>>> and I think it would be a good thing for us to do.
>>>
>>> Perhaps we could take up a collection and give the money raised to a
>>> local LGBT advocacy group?  Just a suggestion.  I'm open to ideas.
>>>
>>> Let me know what you're thinking.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your consideration.
>>>
>>> Amy
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