On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 2:07 AM, Jan Claeys <li...@janc.be> wrote: > On Tue, 2018-06-05 at 16:45 +0200, Chris Travers wrote: > > If I may suggest: The committee should be international as well > > and include people from around the world. The last thing we want is > > for it to be dominated by people from one particular cultural > > viewpoint. > > Being international/intercultural certainly has some value, but I think > it's at least as useful to have people with different competencies and > professional backgrounds. > > For example: having some people who have a background in something like > psychology, sociology, education, law, human resources, marketing, etc. > (in addition to the likely much easier to find developers, DBAs and IT > managers) would be valuable too. >
Besides what the others have said I don't think this would help. The real fear here is the code of conduct being co-opted as a weapon of world-wide culture war and that's what is driving a lot of the resistance here. This is particularly an American problem here and it causes a lot of resistance among people who were, until the second world war, subject to some pretty serious problems by colonial powers. Putting a bunch of American lawyers, psychologists, sociologists, marketers etc on the board in the name of diversity would do way more harm than good. > > > -- > Jan Claeys > > -- Best Wishes, Chris Travers Efficito: Hosted Accounting and ERP. Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in. http://www.efficito.com/learn_more
