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<p>(Changed title to reflect this conversation is about
Code-of-Conduct improvements).</p>
<p>Maria,</p>
<p>I'm going to float a "wish-ware" idea here. Wishware is where
someone wishes for a piece of software (or CoC in this case) and
some magic geek-fairies go and write it for them because the idea
is so good that others are attracted to make it happen.</p>
<p>I wish that instead of every foundation and project writing their
own CoC, everyone bands together and creates a "Code-of-Conduct
Foundation" which takes responsibility for creating a set of
standard Code of Conducts, which are maintained by everyone.
Something like the Creative Commons licenses for data, or the Open
Source licenses defined by OSI.</p>
<p>Then we don't need to spend huge amounts of time debating words
within our CoC, all we do is decide if we go with
CoC-Virtual-Forums or CoC-Face-Conferences, or CoC-Short-Version,
or .... (whatever they end up being called).</p>
<p>This would require one person initially, growing into a team of
people, who would draw together the various authors of
Codes-of-Conduct, and attract a commitment from a few projects to
use the new Code-of-Conduct.</p>
<p>Maybe this might be your calling? It would be a huge amount of
effort, but would also be hugely valuable and an excellent gift to
humanity.<br>
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Maria, re the Code-of-Conduct, I agree with Christian.
Rewriting it to create rules which consider all future
opportunities for human conflict is utopian, impractical
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<div dir="auto">I agree with that. But a static CoC is also
impractical, considering that in the last years CoCs have
advanced a lot and now we know what works better on each kind
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<div dir="auto">What I propose is to evolve, not to throw all
the work already done. As I already said on previous mails,
the work done was outstanding for the time it was written.
Which may seem very recently but considering how much we have
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> There have been a
huge number of person-hours which have been put into the
numerous Code-Of-Conducts which our OSGeo
Code-Of-Conduct was based upon. I think we keep our
Code-of-Conduct as simple as possible, and rely on our
underlying morals, ethics, and collective intelligence
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<div dir="auto">My plan is not to complicate it, but to make it
stronger. </div>
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<div dir="auto">Let me give you one simple example of something
that doesn't make sense right now:</div>
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<div dir="auto">We cannot say dirty words, but we can harass
someone using beautiful words as long as we claim good intent.
That doesn't make sense. </div>
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<div dir="auto">So, precisely one of the things you quote above
as what we should do is one of the things that are wrong. </div>
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<div dir="auto">This article can explain the situation better
than me: <a
href="https://thebias.com/2017/09/26/how-good-intent-undermines-diversity-and-inclusion/"
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<div dir="auto">This would be the easiest thing to propose to
change because once you understand it, it becomes obvious. But
there's more. </div>
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Cameron Shorter
Technology Demystifier
Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant
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