Re: Virtual Inclusion Summit

From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	Simon Pieters <simon@bocoup.com>,
	Don Goodman-Wilson <don@goodman-wilson.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Virtual Inclusion Summit
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 19:10:40 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200611011040.GB21728@syl.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqwo4eedwc.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 03:48:03PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> writes:
>
> > One note I'd like to make is that the Git community already suffers from
> > a lack of diversity; it will be hard for us to make meaningful changes
> > if just those of us who already contribute attend, because many of us -
> > myself included! - come from privilege and don't have much or any
> > firsthand experience with microaggressions (or overt discrimination). I
> > think it's a good idea to expand the attendance of this summit beyond
> > the current contributor base and try to include more diverse voices and
> > experts in building inclusive products.
> >
> > To that end, I'm going to see what kind of interested parties we can
> > find to invite within Google - and I hope others will do the same within
> > their own network. I think the risk of us coming up with meaningless
> > changes far outweighs the risk of us having too many people in the Zoom
> > call. :)

To Emily; I would be honored to attend. Please let me know if there is
anything that I can do to help organize such a thing.

> It is OK to have an optional meeting in the hope that a video
> meeting may have a better chance to keep those who easily become too
> aggressive and confrontational in text-only conversation in check
> and instead have civilized conversation.
>
> But I am not sure if it is a good idea to call such a meeting a
> "Summit", given that there are those who prefer not to be seen,
> heard or recorded how they appear and how they sound in a video
> conference.  They would not be able to join the conversation held in
> such a "Summit" held only by those who are privileged enough to be
> able to attend.

I think that this is a very reasonable concern, stated in a very
reasonable fashion. Let's call it something else, sure, and avoid
recording/publishing the event (as we have done in the past at other
in-person events--such as the last Git Merge--which seems like a
lifetime ago ;-).)

> Thanks.

Thanks,
Taylor