Re: Agenda for the ID CG meeting

I have a new suggestion (sorry for increasing the length of the list) 
that comes from Quncy Brown, co-founder of blackcomputeHER.org and lead 
signatory of "An open letter and call to action to the computing 
community from Black in Computing and Our Allies." She wrote this 
thoughtful introduction, which mentions the idea of an ERB, equity 
review board:

https://medium.com/@quincykbrown/on-being-black-in-computing-during-these-days-54e049d56987

I think the concept of an ERB could be embodied within W3C as a group 
that conducts horizontal review on all our output, including charters. 
Such a review could look not only at language, rooting out words like 
"blacklist" and "whitelist" and similar language that may divide people, 
but also analyze new technologies for potential harm along racial or 
diversity lines, such as algorithms that may discriminate. My hope is 
that we can make some meaningful adjustments to our process that will 
outlast the current elevation of concern.

-Annette

On 6/16/20 9:02 AM, Léonie Watson wrote:
> Everyone,
>
> I will send the Zoom information to the internal-idcg@w3.org email
> because it will contain the meeting password which cannot be shared
> publicly. If anyone does not receive that email, send me a private email
> to lwatson@tetralogical.com and I'll reply with the details.
>
> Date: 18 June 2020
> Time: 3pm UTC
> Duration: 60 minutes
> IRC: irc.w3.org channel #idcg
>
> Agenda:
>
> 1. Introductions.
>
> We have lots to get through on the call, so keeping it short means we'll
> have more time for the rest of the agenda. Thank you!
>
> 2. Publishing an ID CG statement in support of BLM.
>
> * Is this something we want to do?
> * If yes, what do we want it to say?
>   * If yes, who is willing to work on a draft?
>
>
> 3. Actions the ID CG can take.
>
> A lot of ideas have been shared and we won't have time to discuss all of
> them in detail.
>
> If we can use the time on the call to narrow it down to a shorter list
> and find at least one person willing to actively lead on each of those
> actions, I think that will help us make progress.
>
> If you could all take time to read through the different suggestions and
> have an idea of which ones you think we should take forward, and which
> ones you'd be willing to work on, that would be really helpful. The
> collection is here:
> https://github.com/w3c/idcg/wiki/Ideas-for-ID-CG-actions
>
> 4. Schedule another call.
>
> It seems like having a regular call would be a good thing.
>
>
-- 
Annette Greiner (she)
NERSC Data and Analytics Services
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Received on Tuesday, 16 June 2020 17:57:33 UTC