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

[Andrea Buntz Neiman]

+1 as well. Very nicely stated, thank you Galen.

and +1 to amending the Code of Conduct to "gender, gender
identity and expression".

On 3/31/2016 1:00 PM, Chris Sharp wrote:
> +1 to Galen's suggestions and statement wording.
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com 
> <mailto:gmc at esilibrary.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Grace Dunbar
>     <gdunbar at esilibrary.com <mailto: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
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