[diversity] Survey - "Have you ever experienced or witnessed harrassment, intimidation or any other unwanted behaviour while at a RIPE Meeting?"

All,

I was aware of this and I support it.

I understand the concerns in regards to asking the question and there are risks, but I absolutely think it’s a question we need to ask as a community and I think other communities should also ask.

No personal information, of anyone, will be released as part of this, that would be utterly unacceptable, of course.

I have stood on stages and had multiple conversations in which I’ve said there is a problem, we have to face up to that, and I think this is one of the ways of doing it. I also believe that the RIPE Community is strong and wonderful.

I think that there are people in the community who do not believe that there is a problem, so discussions and action like this are needed.

I think that closing the survey would not be a good idea at this point in time.

Please note, neither I nor Denesh have any visibility of the responses, albeit we know that multiple responses have come in already.

Brian

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From: diversity <diversity-bounces at ripe.net> On Behalf Of Job Snijders
Sent: Tuesday 8 October 2019 10:37
To: Rob Evans <Rob.Evans at jisc.ac.uk>
Cc: diversity at ripe.net
Subject: Re: [diversity] Survey - "Have you ever experienced or witnessed harrassment, intimidation or any other unwanted behaviour while at a RIPE Meeting?"

I am not convinced that this survey is the way to show why the work on a code of conduct is important.

Frankly, it seems somewhat irresponsible to send this out to tens of thousands of people without any consultation with the task force at diversity at ripe.net<mailto:diversity at ripe.net>. I can see numerous issues with this communication and action, and would've preferred it to not have happened at all. This seems like a mistake.

I would recommend the survey is *immediately* deleted from surveymonkey.com<http://surveymonkey.com>
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