2021-06-10 Samvera Community Safety Working Group

Review Action Items from last meeting (above)

Updated Samvera Volunteer Structure
- Role of helpers seems clear and not significantly different than previously defined
- Helper role are aware of how to take a report and hand off to incident response team
- Incident response: can include subset of helpers but not necessarily; separate body of volunteer members (thinking 5-10 people)
- We should be able to handle two incidents at a time
- Names and term dates are recorded on the Samvera wiki
- Member of the response team becomes the point person—the incident responder
- Incident team size can vary depending on cirumstances
- Member names for incident team need not be private nor publicized
Annalee will have next draft of Code of Conduct Response Outline to us by June 14

Next steps for CoC

Review and sign off on the draft
When will we be ready to send to the community?
Anti-harassment policy could use a once-over (https://samvera.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/samvera/pages/405211680 )
CoC will be separate from Anti-harassment policy
Some things in current doc are duplicating language from other documents
Remove duplicated content and create link to separate documents
Response team should have a private space to convene

Accessibility for Inclusivity - DEFERRED THIS TOPIC

Fake social media accounts being created with hostile content; something to watch out for

Important for people to feel safe in our community
Guidelines for Slack onboarding process - these could be publicized
http://www.crashoverridenetwork.com/
Don’t want to scare people off in our messaging for an open mic-style meeting
- What do we want to pursue for this?

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