[diversity] Options for gender on meeting registration

Hi Denis,

Thanks for your feedback.

On 02/06/17 15:32, denis walker wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I am a bit late in getting into this group, but had a few 
> pointers/concerns sent to me.
>
> I am not sure what the goals are with trying to measure all these 
> metrics - gender, sexuality, religion, race, class. What are you going 
> to do if you find only 1% of attendees are gay? Are you going to offer 
> incentives to gay people attending to increase it to the population 
> average?
Did you watch the presentation from the plenary session on Friday 
morning or read the RIPE Labs article? Those might be a good place to 
start for some background info/context.
>
> I am also DEEPLY concerned at the rush to get some question(s) on the 
> registration form for RIPE 75. What you are asking for is the most 
> sensitive and personal information people can give. With some of the 
> countries in our region, if this information gets into the wrong hands 
> it can cost lives. There are serious, serious, serious privacy 
> concerns here.
Agree that it's sensitive info, which is why we want it to be 
opt-in...and the scope of the questions we'll include is being discussed.
>
> Amanda said "This data will only be used anonymously for metric 
> benchmarking."
Taken out of context a bit here, Denis. I wasn't making a statement, I 
was suggesting options on text to include for background information.
> Sorry, but before we get to how this data is going to be used:
>
> -how is it going to be collected
> -who is going to collect it
> -how and where will it be stored
> -who has access to the raw data
> -how will the sensitive data be harvested from the personally 
> identifiable data
> -are there Dutch/EU data protection issues with collecting/storing 
> this data in an identifiable way
We have a legal team that will be involved before anything is announced 
or implemented. This thread is merely to find out the scope of a 
question we *could* include on the form *if possible* in time for RIPE 75.
>
> This is not something you announce on a Thursday with a deadline for a 
> decision on Monday. I hope a lot more thought and care will be applied 
> to potentially life threatening personal information.
Nothing's been announced. I was asking for input to include in our 
discussion with SWE on Tuesday.
>
> cheers
> denis
>
>
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