[Board] Fwd: Fwd: Important Information About Your Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion in Amateur Radio

[Steve Conklin]

I should have hit reply-all

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From: Steve Conklin <steve at conklinhouse.com>
Date: Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Board] Fwd: Important Information About Your Commitment to
Diversity and Inclusion in Amateur Radio
To: Michelle Thompson <mountain.michelle at gmail.com>


This appears to have been created by a single WHITE DUDE (Vance Martin in
PA. N3VEM)
who decided to try to solve the D&I problem without consulting any experts
or doing any deep learning about the topic.
Disclaimer - I do not claim to be an expert on this, but I have enough
self-awareness and knowledge of the issues that I would never attempt
something like this.

See the last paragraph of https://n3vem.com/blog/about/



On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 7:20 AM Michelle Thompson <
mountain.michelle at gmail.com> wrote:

> I received this email yesterday.
>
> 1) It's unsigned. Can't tell who is talking to us or who we would be
> responding to. It's a red flag and feels like a trap.
>
> 2) Threatening to publicly rate organizations with what sounds like low
> ratings unless that organization "take a pledge" is a tactic used by
> authoritarians and bullies.
>
> 3) I suppose having a radically inclusive board of directors (40-80%
> underrepresented people on our board since we were founded), being publicly
> endorsed by Pride Radio Group (https://prideradio.group/club-endorsement),
> enforcing an industry standard CoC with a handbook, and having a volunteer
> corps more diverse than the US amateur radio population doesn't count?
> Actual results not important? We'd score higher if we were all old white
> men and had a panel about how we wished we were more diverse?
>
> 4) Sending this in the middle of Christmas holidays, when a lot of US orgs
> are shut down until mid-January, seems like a bad idea to get cooperation.
> We won't start back up until 9 January.
>
> 5) I would have been so incredibly happy to have been included in this
> effort instead of feeling unfairly judged by it. We could have shared how
> we achieved our demonstrated diversity and inclusion results, and how
> difficult it's been for us.
>
> The most ironic thing about receiving this email is that ham radio isn't
> the focus anymore because of targeted harassment from sexists, bigots, and
> racists in ham radio. We do open source digital radio. If it helps hams
> then great, but our official corporate mission is being a research
> institute, and not a ham entity.
>
> Thoughts on this? I have been afraid of something like this happening,
> where a couple paragraphs on a website are valued more than actual DEI
> achievements and inclusive technical teams and events.
>
> -Michelle Thompson
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Amateur Radio Inclusivity Pledge <
> AmateurRadioInclusivityPledge at proton.me>
> Date: Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 7:35 PM
> Subject: Important Information About Your Commitment to Diversity and
> Inclusion in Amateur Radio
> To: ori at openresearch.institute <ori at openresearch.institute>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> The Amateur Radio Inclusivity Pledge (ARIP) is a newly formed organization
> that is scoring amateur radio entities based on their visible commitment to
> diversity and inclusion in the hobby and service. We are currently rating
> your organization as a “*Bronze*” entity based on our scoring criteria.
> Thank you for taking some basic steps towards Diversity and Inclusion in
> the amateur radio hobby and service.
>
>
> More information about our organization and scoring criteria is available
> at https://amateurradioinclusivitypledge.org. For a brief overview
> however, our scoring is based on whether your organization does the items
> listed below, and makes these items very easy for the public to find.
> Generally this is via your organization’s website, but may also be via
> regularly scheduled podcasts, video channels, print magazines, over the air
> bulletins, etc.
>
>
> We currently have your organization in the “*Bronze*” category, based on
> these items that you have in place, that we were able to confirm via your
> organizations website or other public media.
>
>
>
> Points
>
> Items
>
> 1
>
> Has an inclusivity statement
>
> 1
>
> Has an inclusivity statement, specifically identifying 3 or more
> disadvantaged groups
>
> 2
>
> Has an inclusivity statement, specifically identifying 7 or more
> disadvantaged groups
>
>
>
> These are the items that we evaluate that we were not able to find via
> your organization’s website or other public media. If the absence of any of
> these items is incorrect, please let us know, and include links to any
> information demonstrating the correction, and we will update our records
>
>
> Points
>
> Items
>
> 3
>
> Has made the ARIP pledge
>
> 5
>
> Endorses, supports, or funds a group that has diversity as a core part of
> its mission
>
> 8
>
> Core mission involves/targets the advancement of 1 or more disadvantaged
> groups
>
> 13
>
> Holds an annual, publicly visible event, that targets inclusivity
>
> 21
>
> Holds a monthly, publicly visible event, that targets inclusivity
>
> 34
>
> Holds a weekly, publicly visible event, that targets inclusivity
>
> 55
>
> Holds a daily, publicly visible event, that targets inclusivity. Daily
> items can include ‘always on’ activities, i.e. running a repeater system,
> digital mode ‘rooms’, informational web sites or bulletins, etc.
>
>
> Making a public statement of inclusion is a commitment that we would love
> to see every entity in the ham radio community make. An excellent first
> step towards making this commitment is to have an honest, well though out
> statement of diversity and inclusion, and make it a visible, core component
> of the mission and values of your organization.
>
>
> A very simple way to to improve your diversity score, is to use our
> existing framework to make the ARIP pledge – information for doing so is
> available at the “Make the Pledge
> <https://amateurradioinclusivitypledge.org/docs/make-the-pledge/>”
> section of our website. This is a very low effort, no cost, way to make
> sure that the ham radio community knows that your organization is open and
> welcoming to all members of our community.
>
>
> We will be publishing our findings in mid-January, so please let us know
> within within 2 weeks of receiving this communication, if you have any
> updates or corrections you would like to share with us.
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> The ARIP
>
>
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