Proactively enhance diversity by giving more votes to diverse members

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I suggest to increase the number of votes per member as follows:

"Each member organisation has at least one vote and at most two votes on the Member's council. More than one votes are given to a member organisation if it sends two representatives that identify with different aspects of diversity"

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Following up on #366

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From @alexey

• "possibly getting into dangerours territory".
• why duplicate, doesn't that enforce binary views?

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From @lisa:
I appreciate your raising the issue of diversity and do think we should address it, though agree that duplication of voting may not be our best way forward to address the root causes. Could we, instead, set specific goals for the foundation so that it is an active discussion and objective?

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delia: Cultural diversity?

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@delia That’s why the suggestions was to have two members that identify (themselves) with different aspects of diversity. Could be cultural, geographic, gender

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@greg if the aspiration is in the community, it doesn't necessarily be in the formal governance structure.

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@cmbarton suggests co-chairs for WG

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@alee cautions adding votes kicks the can down the road, especially if there's only surface / cosmetic diversity in the 2 votes added

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@cmbarton suggests co-chairs for WG

by @sander "How about favoring co-chairs who represent diversity?"

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@cmbarton emphasizes that diversity in the global sense is very apparently missing: almost no members from the southern hemisphere...

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@Shelley from AGU they keep metrics of but don't have restrictions on all kinds of diversity aspects

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@cmbarton suggests to move this issues to Values statement

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From @lisa: I appreciate your raising the issue of diversity and do think we should address it, though agree that duplication of voting may not be our best way forward to address the root causes. Could we, instead, set specific goals for the foundation so that it is an active discussion and objective?

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Closed as rejected. Should not be formalized as suggested. Discussion continues in #366