Add Cultural Diversity Guideline to Remote Meeting #670
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Love this!
I'd like to suggest some more considerations that would help autistic people in particular (may or may not count as a culture, depending on your perspective):
- Be understanding regarding whether others initiate or are comfortable participating in "small talk". If they do initiate it, and if you're comfortable, then it's encouraged to participate.
- Try to be aware of others' comfort level with eye contact; err on the side of less eye contact.
- For calls/videocalls, endeavor to use platforms that provide automatic closed captions.
- Favor being explicit rather than implicit with regards to expressing emotions or intent, especially in text-based communication (where emojis and tone tags can be helpful). When others' intent is not explicit, assume positive or neutral intent instead of negative intent.
(Of course feel free to adjust the phrasing on those to fit into "avoid"/"prioritize".)
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- Adding a guideline that is focused on communication between different cultures and non-native speakers! Co-authored-by: Summer <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Matheus Richard <[email protected]>
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@thoughtbot-summer I added most of your suggestions, except for eye contact, because I am changing the guidelines for the remote meeting! What do you think? |
Makes sense!
Yeah I think that'd be great! And maybe we could extract many of the remote and in-person guidelines into a shared section, for example:
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@thoughtbot-summer Loved the idea of extracting, and I was thinking the same thing! |
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@bigchickenwings I don't think we'd need any extra approval beyond our normal PR guidelines (waiting a week for others to provide feedback). ❤️ |
Co-authored-by: Mike Burns <[email protected]>
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I really, really like these changes. Thank you for adding this @bigchickenwings! Thank you for including guides for autistic people, @thoughtbot-summer! I learned a lot from reading these suggestions. |
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Regarding this point:
It would be helpful to list some examples of which platforms provide automatic closed captions. I, for one, do not know this list! |
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@skybondsor I'd love a list of that as well. 😅 I know that Google Meet has automation closed captions, but I don't think Slack does (at least when I last checked). I think Zoom has a closed captions feature, but I can't remember if it's automatic or whether it's necessary for someone to transcribe it in realtime, and I also can't remember if it requires admins to enable it (or gives admins the ability to disable it, both of which seem cruel). Phone calls of course do not have closed captions, unless you have some sort of specific setup for that. I'm looking for a list that we can link to, but I'm not finding anything that seems like it'll be kept up-to-date. Side note: Google has an Android app called Live Transcribe that can be useful for real-world interactions and platforms without closed captions (but of course that shouldn't be something we require). |
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