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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I’ve revised that line: <a href="https://postgis.net/community/conduct/">https://postgis.net/community/conduct/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Does that look okay?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Regina<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Paul Norman [mailto:penorman@mac.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, May 14, 2023 1:44 AM<br><b>To:</b> PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel@lists.osgeo.org>; Regina Obe <lr@pcorp.us><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [postgis-devel] Code of conduct page<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 2023-05-12 4:52 p.m., Regina Obe wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><pre>Paul has put up the new website. <o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><a href="https://postgis.net">https://postgis.net</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>I was thinking we need a code of conduct page as required by OSGeo. I plan<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>to pattern it after the GEOS one <a href="https://libgeos.org/project/coc/">https://libgeos.org/project/coc/</a> <o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Except<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>1) Of course not talking about GEOS<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>2) Spelling out the name in the link instead of that annoying acronym<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>3) Have reporting go to <a href="mailto:psc@postgis.net">psc@postgis.net</a> (similar to what QGIS does on<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>theirs -<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/codeofconduct/codeofcond">https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/codeofconduct/codeofcond</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>uct.html <o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Does anyone have issue with the above plan?<o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p>The GEOS COC defines doxing as "Posting (or threatening to post) other people’s personally identifying information". This has a serious issue we ran into with an <a href="https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/4554/files/dde058f367721878e66cf5b7ee3cd72ed837b2d7#r889629148">OpenStreetMap Carto pull request</a> - it does not differentiate between private information and public information, and disagrees with the dictionary definitions of doxing, which is about publishing private information. The below quote applies here<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>As defined here, someone posting my name and location with my explicit permission would be doxxing me, and thus prohibited. Additionally, some users are publicly disclose their location in their profile. These users are publicising certain information about themselves, and, when relevant to an issue, I see no reason not to mention the information they publish.<br><br>When defining dox, Oxford and Wikipedia both include some notion of the information being private and there normally being some malice. The definition here has neither.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>