[diversity] Two Documents from the Code of Conduct Task Force
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Vesna Manojlovic
BECHA at ripe.net
Wed Sep 14 21:53:04 CEST 2022
Alex, this will be my last message today -- taking my own guidelines on "taking a deep breath" before sending too many messages ;-) On 14/09/2022 20:43, Alex de Joode wrote: > The *community* should not act outside the law, the *community* should > respect and support basic fundamental rights. This process does not > respect basic fundamental rights I disagree. > The outcome of the proposed process can have real world consequences. > Consequences that might be unfair maybe even career-ending This is a hypothetical consequence. I want to point you out to the _existing_ real-world consequences, and career-endings that already happened for many of the participants in technical communities (including RIPE) because of the behaviors that CoC is trying to prevent or deal with. Many *women* leave tech industry because of abuse, or micro-aggressions. We are missing out on the contributions by persons of color, young people, "people with thin skin"... People with different views on priviledge do not even consider joining. > The process makes everyone attending an > RIPE event a potential target with no due process, no recourse, a total > absence of fairness totally at the mercy of the CoC, and only the CoC. I argue that the _absence_ of process is one of the factors that have resulted in the existing state of (lack of) "diversity & inclusion" in the RIPE Community. > RIPE Legal can hopefully research what are the potential liabilities for > RIPE, for the organizers of events and for members of the CoC itself. Thank you, this is a good suggestion. > for damage claims (loss of employment, libel/defamation). You can sue > RIPE, the event or (individual) members of the CoC. I don't think that this fear should stop us from implementing the process -- and I expect that these kind of extreme decions will not be taken lite-ly! > You also state: > /Please consider volunteering, since you seem to be very passionate > about justice and fairness./ > > When the process has been changed to include fairness and has a high > change of delivering justice I might consider. I am curious about your suggestions for increasing fairness. Thank you, Vesna
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