Re: Request for consensus to add text in the BLM statement

That is amazing! I really admire her work. We previously had the statement on the wiki as we were working on it, but I believe it was taken down to avoid public commentary while it was still in its infancy. I’m ok with posting it back up again or posting it into a GitHub issue in order for her to make her comments. Alternately I could also add it as a markdown document into the repo via PR, and comments/edits can be made there.

I love the idea of making this a public learning opportunity. This doesn’t necessarily fit into the process, (I’m predicting comments from people more invested in process than myself), but this is an amazing opportunity we really should take advantage of.

-Wendy

From: Tobie Langel <tobie@unlockopen.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 at 12:06 PM
To: Léonie Watson <lwatson@tetralogical.com>
Cc: Inclusion and Diversity Community Group <public-idcg@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Request for consensus to add text in the BLM statement
Resent-From: <public-idcg@w3.org>
Resent-Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 at 12:05 PM

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 1:35 PM Tobie Langel <tobie@unlockopen.com<mailto:tobie@unlockopen.com>> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 1:11 PM Léonie Watson <lwatson@tetralogical.com<mailto:lwatson@tetralogical.com>> wrote:
On 25/08/2020 23:58, Tobie Langel wrote:
> I would have suggested getting someone like Kim Crayton[2] to review the
> statement, but I suspect there's no budget for this.

Do you have any idea what their costs might be? I could try to find some
budget if it isn't much. I'm still conscious of the time too.

I have asked and will report back.

Kim Crayton is willing to review the statement pro-bono because—in her own words—"the work of the consortium fundamentally impacts on the overall health of the community."

She would prefer as much as possible of this process to be public so that others can learn from it. Given this thread is public and so is the GitHub repo, I imagine this shouldn't be too much of an issue.

She'd be available next week.

Let me know what you think and whether and how you'd like to proceed.

Thanks,

--tobie