[Eg-oversight-board] North Carolina and the LGBT Community
Kathy Lussier
klussier at masslnc.org
Thu Mar 31 13:39:39 EDT 2016
Hi Rogan,
> Do we have anything that says we will not consider a site that falls
> under a jurisdiction with this kind of legislation in place?
No, we don't. Our site selection information with criteria is available
at http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=eg09:conference_nominations.
I think it would be useful for the Board to consider some language here
to address these concerns for future site selection and to include this
action its statement as one of the steps being taken. I'm not quite sure
what the language would be. Maybe 'preference is given to proposals in
locations where policy / legislation fully supports the values
articulated in the Evergreen Code of Conduct and does not discriminate
on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability,
physical appearance, body size, race, or religion.' However, the word
'preference' seems to be too light to me.
Future site selection committees would then need to commit to fully
researching potential locations to verify that proposed locations meet
this criteria.
Kathy
On 03/31/2016 01:15 PM, Rogan Hamby wrote:
> Chiming in as a random ex-board member, I applaud the common spirit of
> wanting to address this issue. I do think trying to do something
> associated with the conference is pretty late in the game for it. I
> think addressing it in a wider statement as Galen proposed showing the
> community's stance towards diversity is a better path to walk for now
> and we could potentially announce that those changes have been made at
> the conference. It would make a statement now but also lay ground
> work for this as a common understanding in the future.
>
> I'm also going to ask a question that exposes my ignorance of the site
> selection process for the conference. Do we have anything that says
> we will not consider a site that falls under a jurisdiction with this
> kind of legislation in place?
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Chris Sharp
> <csharp at georgialibraries.org <mailto:csharp at georgialibraries.org>> 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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