Re: Proposal for an Events Code of Conduct and Policy Referendum

Benjamin Berg <[email protected]> Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:43:51 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi Philip,

On Mon, 2018-04-16 at 05:37 +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> Your email references vaguely some recent events. Reading between the
> lines, something must have happened in the WG to make the situation
> untenable for you, but I have no idea what. According to [1], the
> WG's mailing list is private, and there are only public minutes up
> until February 2017, so I'm assuming that these events are not
> documented anywhere that I can read.

There are some hints in the Minutes, as to where the differences
originally stem from (I am happy to look them up for anyone
interested). But I believe that this is not of primary relevance in the
current situation.

> I encourage you to continue to discuss your concerns with the board
> privately. With this little context, it sounds like public action
> runs a risk of making things even more "political," since you are
> effectively asking the subscribers of foundation-list to form their
> opinions without knowing what is going on. That will likely lead to
> assumptions, projection, and more misunderstandings.

You are obviously right with your concerns. And even if I may not have
fully considered these aspects, I still do not see another option for
me.

Please note that the aim of the mail is to ask the Board to adopt my
proposal for a referendum on their own accord. Including my motivations
and CC'ing foundation-list was unfortunately a requirement considering
the difficulty of the situation at this point.

I do hope that community members will form their own opinion on whether
a Referendum is a good solution rather than deciding solely based on
whether they think my motivations have merits.

Regards,
Benjamin

> [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Diversity/CoCWorkingGroup
> 
> Regards,
> Philip C

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