On 29/08/2019 12:43, Sasha Romijn wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for your work on the document, Amanda!
Other than two points I left as a comment in the document, if I’m reading this right the RIPE chair will, on their own, select the members of the CoC team. How will the RIPE chair do this? What are the considerations that apply to this decision? HPH is in the office tomorrow and this is one of the things I want to talk to him about...he might have some input about the selection process (and I will share that here).
I, personally, don't feel *great* about the selection of the team being down to one person either. But it also doesn't make sense to have the RIPE NCC EB do it (as they do for the Arbiters Panel). Other options could be: - Decision is made by vote by the community - We have a "meta" decision making body that makes the decision(but then we're going to need a whole process behind that selection process too...) - HPH gets input from the Diversity TF on the selection
I also don’t see any space for someone saying “hey, I don’t think this person should be on the CoC team, for <reason>” (in private and confidential). There are definitely people in this community who I would be very uncomfortable reporting anything to. In established CoC teams, there’s at least the option of checking whether there were any previous reports about new volunteers, but we don’t have any data like that.
You're right, we should have this in place in the process. We should explicitly say that if there are any objections to a potential team member, people can confidentially submit their concern...especially considering that we don't have any formal way of checking to make sure their behaviour hasn't been in violation in the past.
I’m also wondering what we can do to attract a diverse group of volunteers. It would be a poor outcome to end up with a CoC team that has little diversity, and consists mainly of usual suspects of our community - I would definitely be more reluctant to report. I don’t immediately have ideas for that.
Share this concern too - we cannot have a homogenous team. I expect that we may need to encourage people we think would be a good fit to volunteer. I can also add something in the doc about this...that we are aiming for a diverse team.
Sasha
On 29 Aug 2019, at 10:26, Amanda Gowland <agowland@ripe.net> wrote:
Thanks Leo, saw them come in and they are great, thanks!
Will work those in this morning.
On 28/08/2019 18:10, Leo Vegoda wrote:
Hi,
Amanda Gowland <agowland@ripe.net> wrote:
[...]
Are we ready to:
a) Share the draft CoC Team doc with the wider community so that b) We can ask HPH to declare consensus + open the call for volunteers I have reviewed the updated text and made a couple of comments. Whether my suggestions are incorporated or not I think this document is good and ready to share more widely.
Kind regards,
Leo Vegoda
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