On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 03:48:03PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@xxxxxxxxxx> 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
