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

[Yamil Suarez]

None from me.

Yamil




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Yamil Suarez, MCS
Library Systems Administrator/Developer

Stan Getz Library
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston St
Boston, MA 02215

ysuarez at berklee.edu
617-747-2617

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Grace Dunbar <gdunbar at esilibrary.com>
wrote:

> 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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