Re: [gnome-women] What's the plan?

["Vid Ayer" <svaksha gmail com>]

Hi

On 5/29/06, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> > Potentially awkward. :(
> >
> > We need to make gender recording optional:
>
> Yes, that's the plan. I think it solves most potential controversy.

I would not like to specifically draw attention or tout my gender
(which should not matter and nor is it a secret as such :-)) but it
will be nicer if gender recording were optional.


> > Good in general. We discussed this on Ubuntu-Women recently, and were
> > concerned that anyone listed as a mentor is recommended personally as
> > having the skills and attitude needed.

Besides the technical expertise, a combination of patience and
consideration for a new mentee helps greatly.


> At the moment, I guess that a whole beaurocratic structure to handle
> problems would be hard to get going and would make this appear less
> attractive. Plus people would tend to leave all "enforcement" up to the
> beaurocracy instead of just saying "Hey, that's not good. It's really
> against our code of conduct".
>
> I think Ubuntu's code of conduct is successful because of the expectations
> that it creates rather than the organizational structure it creates. I
> would like GNOME's Code Of Conduct to be simpler.

... there is a CC[0] with bi-weekly meetings[1] on IRC and people can
also raise the issue privately[0]

[0] http://www.ubuntu.com/community/processes/council
[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncilAgenda

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Vid