How do we continue to remind people of inclusive language use?

[exoticDFT]

Some notes from first meeting discussion about this:

• During last year, the Stanford POC-IT working group had backlash over a list of words
  • Should we mention this in our overview blog post for Black History Month
• Out-in-tech has community bots that notify users; something we should consider?
  • Ping general community about this concept?
  • Maybe start conversation in DEI-discussions channel, see where this goes, then have steering committee guide further discussion/direction
• Create a blog post and/or newsletter announcement about this
  • Could we create a single sentence blurb about this for all future, quarterly, etc. newsletters?

[exoticDFT]

Notes from 02/14/24:

• Asking the community about the use of bots to monitor?
• Focus on repairing relationships
• ‘The DEI conference committee could help or organize something around: “Having the tough conversations” “language is important” “navigating conflict and resistance”’
• Something to note that came out of the COC reviews
  • "A statement during a US-RSE Zoom call was reported as an example of gendered language. It was determined that this particular language was not a violation of the Code of Conduct as it was not derogatory or exclusionary, but that further communication and discussion should be had about gendered and other biased language in US-RSE spaces."
• That was the Out In Tech bot I think. that "pokes" people to use other words/language

[lparsons]

Suggested resource (from Miranda on Slack): https://www.aswf.io/blog/inclusive-language/