Inclusive Naming Words List v1.0 release 17 May(?)(!)

[Karsten Wade]

tl;dr -- Meanwhile, the Language WS released the Inclusive Naming Words List v1.0 last week, there's an announcement in draft to go out Wednesday if possible (WS leads approvals needed, including quotes from Priyanka and Larry), and IMO this project is going to gain momentum in the coming months as word gets out about the word lists.

Hi folks,

While it's true things slowed down across the Inclusive Naming Initiative over the last year, the Language Workstream has continued to meet and work toward our goal of providing a vetted and maintained list of words and terms.

Please review, make any suggestions/comments, or even approve the announcement if you are a Marketing, Language, or Company workstream lead.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C82CgoPO9WE5aHzsIX37Ts2oefvbOOZTVWO1xqWGRcA

As a release we now have:

• A new call-to-action button on the front page, "Word Lists v1.0":
  • https://inclusivenaming.org/
• Downloadable artifact of all the words:
  • https://inclusivenaming.org/word-lists/
• Individual words are also available as downloadable sub-parts of the whole:
  • e.g. https://inclusivenaming.org/word-lists/tier-3/segregate/inclusive-naming-word-lists-v1.0.odt

There is still some work to be done in the near term to improve the release (e.g. blockers on making PDFs, version number in the file name, uniquely named files, branding and style in the output artifacts, etc.), but overall we had enough to make an initial release that is meaningful and useful.

Part of the incentive for pushing to release was a keynote at the Open Source Summit in Vancouver last week, with Language WS leader Larry Kunz and Mallory Knodel, CTO for the Center for Democracy & Technology, where INI was part of the topic:

https://ossna2023.sched.com/event/1Krlh?iframe=no

So I wrote up a release plan to make sure Larry and Mallory knew there would be something on the website by that keynote. With limited people availability and short time, we opted for bootstrapping the release entirely out of the Language WS. Ideally in the future this will be a coordinated effort with the Marketing WS and leadership overall, as well as the Community WS for release process and tooling.

Thankfully, Abubakar Ango heard my call and made himself available to help (thank you!) Also thankfully, he saw a good path using existing tooling to get what I was asking for, and was willing to work with me over the final 24 hours. He figured out and then implemented into existing automation a solution we can build on going forward.

As one of the many word nerds here, I'm very pleased with this release so far and very, very excited for what we can do next. I'm proud of what we accomplished through consensus, and deep care for each other, and for those affected by harmful language.

In kindness,

- Karsten,  a founding member & tireless worker bee of the Language WS

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[Stephen Hemminger]

Current list is no longer valid JSON!

$ curl -s https://inclusivenaming.org/word-lists/index.json | python3 -m json.tool
Expecting value: line 231 column 1 (char 8873)