theopensourceway / guidebook

Guidebook of open source community management best practices; is somewhat opinionated.
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Write a chapter on inclusive language #209

Open quaid opened 3 years ago

quaid commented 3 years ago

Introduce the idea of inclusivity in language, why it matters, identify and talk through some of the well-known examples (master/slave, blacklist/whitelist), and look at the tools from inclusivenaming.org for re-use/adoption or pointers-to. That is, if the Inclusive Naming Initiative (INI) creates an evaluation criteria for evaluating language decisions (https://github.com/inclusivenaming/org/issues/23) and it's licensed appropriately, then we can adopt the same tool directly into the guide as a downstream redistribution. But we also want to point projects at all the resources that INI is providing.