A step towards an ERB

Everyone,

One of the ideas on the wiki is an Equality Review Board (ERB). I think
it is definitely something we should work towards, but of all our ideas
it is the one I think we should be most cautious about doing before we
have better representation ourselves.

We've already talked today about ways we can invite people from
under-represented groups to join this CG, and the need to phrase the
invitation carefully so we do not give the impression that we're trying
to offload the hard work onto other people. As we start to do more
outreach we will hopefully reach a point where we have enough diversity
ourselves to look more seriously at forming an ERB.

In the meantime I wonder if we could take a step in the right direction
by helping members of our community review what they're working on
themselves? Some of the horizontal review groups at W3C have developed
self-review checklists - relatively short sets of questions designed to
help WG participants and specification editors consider their work in a
different light. I know the TAG has also had success using self-review
questionnaires.

I have not got any further with thinking about this idea, but wanted to
share it in case it was something we might choose to do.

Léonie.




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Director @TetraLogical

Received on Thursday, 25 June 2020 17:19:35 UTC