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Define a Pledge or Commitment statement for entities that agree to implement inclusive language changes #33

Open mschnoor-intel opened 3 years ago

mschnoor-intel commented 3 years ago

Also-applies-to: #ws-standards Also-applies-to: #ws-company Related-to: #29 (for logo and badge) Assigned-worktream: TBD.

If an entity (e.g., company, SDO, collective or other individual) wishes to show support for INI and display this on their website and marketing materials, and if they agree to make changes to remove non-inclusive language and replace with inclusive language, then we should ask them to take a pledge or make a commitment to that effect. Entities should make a promise to do their best efforts on this. Entities with members (i.e., contributors or adopters) should also consider making inward-facing statements to their members that this is a key goal (i.e., via marketing or internal comms) and ask to be held accountable. We can offer suggestions on how to do that.

This should be strongly recommended, in order to keep using the INI logo. Entities should know that our discovery and development of recommendations for better inclusive terms (and the terms that should be called out for replacement via #ws-language) will likely change over time, and the goal of showing support for INI (or displaying a badge) is a process: more a journey than a destination.

For multi-person entities that have wider bodies of work (i.e., many standards or specifications) and a clear structure with specialized individuals contributing to the development, we can ask authorized reps (i.e., those in leadership or governance) to agree to take the pledge and drive changes internally. We can then make a system available where individuals or other adopters can evaluate this work and optionally self-report issues where terminology replacement does not proceed as planned (or committed). It might be a checklist, or it could be an anonymized report.

This doesn't need to become a strict compliance testing program, and we don't need to have a firm-handed enforcement mechanism. We can discuss what this could be.

Thoughts?

xmulligan commented 3 years ago

Following this issue for the Marketing WS too

xmulligan commented 3 years ago

the current response until the structure is set up: Thank you for your interest in supporting the Inclusive Naming Initiative (INI). We request you to please secure clearance from your company's legal team to have your logo included on our website. You can reply to this email to confirm legal approval and then we will put your logo on our site. Please note that INI is in process of incorporating as a legal entity in order to raise funds and manage our intellectual property. Once our structure is finalized, we will have a new process for organizations to show support for the initiative. We will reach out to you when that is the case and your company will have 90 days to follow the steps to stay as publicly-listed supporters. Best wishes, The INI Team