Non-Inclusive Language
Dell, as well as many other technology companies, has accelerated its efforts to eradicate non-inclusive language in our content and our code. Is anyone else out there working on this that would like to compare scope and alternative language?
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Hey @Mary Cay Kosten this sounds interesting. Would you be willing to elaborate a bit more?
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@Jon Scott Here are some articles on the topic.
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@Mary Cay Kosten at F5 we started by taking a (voluntary) pledge (https://www.f5.com/company/blog/our-pledge-for-racial-equality--diversity--and-inclusion). This was introduced in June and now F5 is making changes to our product line, documentation, training material, etc. The scope looks like it will be the same as the Apple Insider and Twitter articles you linked.
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If anyone can point to a guide on this that would be very helpful. We also need to do this at Ibbaka.
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I connected with some folks at TSIA that indicated they also have worked on eliminating some terminology. We are meeting this week to compare. I will talk to them about sharing more broadly. Might be interesting to see what words companies are considering in scope and then alternative terminology that has been identified.
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Schneider Electric has taken steps to remove non-inclusive language from our product documentation after working directly with Modbus to update wording across their platform. See their press release on the terminology changes. https://modbus.org/docs/Client-ServerPR-07-2020-final.docx.pdf
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We'll start to use this language guideline: https://outandequal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/OE-Non-Binary-Best-Practices.pdf
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