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

[Chris Sharp]

+1 to Galen's suggestions and statement wording.

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Grace Dunbar <gdunbar at esilibrary.com>
> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I agree with Grace that the EOB should consider adopting a broader
> statement of the project's core values. In the short term, I suggest
> that the EOB consider issuing a statement along these lines:
>
> _BEGIN_
> Per the Evergreen Event Code of Conduct
> [https://evergreen-ils.org/code-of-conduct/], Evergreen event
> organizers are dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for
> everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability,
> physical appearance, body size, race, or religion. We do not tolerate
> harassment of event participants in any form.
>
> It is now important to reemphasize that committment.
>
> In particular, the Evergreen Oversight Board is disappointed that the
> North Carolina General Assembly has chosen to pass legislation that
> nullifies city ordinances that protect LGBT individuals from
> discrimination, including one such ordinance passed by the Raleigh
> City Council. Since the 2016 Evergreen Conference is to be held in
> Raleigh, the Oversight Board is taking the following steps to protect
> conference attendees:
>
> * We are working with the conference venue and hotels to ensure that
> their staff and organizations will not discriminate on the basis of
> gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, physical
> appearance, body size, race, or religion.
> * We are informing the conference venue that had House Bill 2 been in
> effect during the conference site selection period last year, the
> Evergreen Project would not have chosen Raleigh.
> * The Evergreen Conference will refund in full registrations from
> individuals who feel that they can no longer safely attend the
> conference.
> _END_
>
> I also suggest to the EOB that the code of conduct be updated to
> replace the two instances of the word "gender" with "gender, gender
> identity and expression".
>
> Regards,
>
> Galen
> --
> Galen Charlton
> Infrastructure and Added Services Manager
> Equinox Software, Inc. / Open Your Library
> email:  gmc at esilibrary.com
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Chris Sharp
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