[LA-Policies] Diversity / Social Inclusion Policy

[Matthew Lye]

 Considering the potential value in using old computing and Linux to
support and educate communities that don't have good resources and the
prevalence of of those communities in predominately indigenous area I think
going further an actually setting up a fund for getting indigenous people
to linux.conf.au is an idea that should be considered.

Encouraging social diversity and inclusion should be something the Linux
community should always be doing regardless of the indigenous issue.

-Matthew Lye

 Leadership is responsibility, not privilege, Action, not position,
Guidance, not knowledge, and outcome, not disposition.

"Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it
often substitutes for both." - John Andrew Holmes

On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 11:18 AM, David Lloyd <lloy0076 at adam.com.au> wrote:

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> Given the recent discussions – rancorous or otherwise – about the opening
> of events, it strikes me that there is no obvious diversity or social
> inclusion policy. It’s touched on in code of conduct but that’s more of a
> “behave yourself you fools” statement.
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> There are a few obvious groups who are missing in computing in Australia,
> in general, and perhaps open source communities in Australia. For example,
> in Australia there’s a close balance between the number of women and men
> but one could hardly argue there’s the same balance in the computing
> communities in Australia. To be honest, in all my time working in computing
> I don’t think I’ve *ever* seen an Indigenous person working in any part
> of the IT industry and I don’t think I’m that sheltered.
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> Should Linux Australia simply encourage itself and other organisations to
> have diversity and social inclusion programmes? Or take one step further
> and require them for sponsorship? Should that be on a case by case basis?
> Might it make sense to prefer sponsorship of programmes that have diversity
> / social inclusive programmes, all other factors being equal?
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> Does the current debate highlight the need to address issues of equality
> and other social issues in a more comprehensive manner?
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> I wonder.
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> David Lloyd
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