On 12/29/2016 07:25 AM, Shane Curcuru wrote:
Gavin Mabie wrote on 12/29/16 8:20 AM:
Hi Community
Should the community come out clearly rejecting the Trump xenophobic
policies? Given the fact that community members comprise all cultures,
religions and geographies?
Gavin
The ASF is a 501C3 non-profit that serves the public good by providing
permissively licensed software and education and mentoring to the
communities that create that software. As such, there are both legal
limits, as well as practical limits on what sorts of politically-related
statements the ASF as a formal organization can or will make in the
political sphere.
In particular, the ASF focuses on what we do best: providing core
software development services and mentoring to our existing communities.
So while I imagine many individual list subscribers would agree with
you, I do not expect to see any formal political statements here. In
general, I personally find them off-topic for this list, other than how
specific and actual events are affecting our existing communities.
I am very happy to see the great work on the diversity survey and other
efforts to make both ComDev and many Apache projects welcoming to all
productive contributors, no matter their circumstances or backgrounds.
The ASF has a "Code of Conduct" page which contains a good, concise
"Diversity" section in my opinion. I don't feel an explicit statement
against Trump's or any other political leader's policies is needed at
this point. But perhaps the Diversity section might include more
explanation regarding upholding and respecting diversity stated in the
Code of Conduct page in the face of political unease.
https://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct
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