[Board] Improve Community Behaviour

[María Arias de Reyna]

Drive Document to comment and edit:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RiAwgA8YQTV6QcbufnP6Xdh7fur3H73cjPhwUQ5PU4o/edit?usp=sharing

Sorry for the delay, I am a bit offline these days.

On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 4:29 PM, Guido Stein <guido at guidostein.com> wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> would it make sense to put this into a google doc and allow people to add
> comments and suggest language updates?
>
> Based on the great feedback I am not sure what has been updated or not so
> far and would like to add some comments inline.
>
> That said, if this is not a great workflow for others I will be happy to add
> into the conversation in email form.
>
> -guido
>
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 5:47 AM María Arias de Reyna <delawen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Shane,
>>
>> Comments inline;
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 9:44 PM, Shane Curcuru <shane at punderthings.com>
>> wrote:
>> > A couple of brief suggestions from a bystander (apologies in advance if
>> > this is improper as an outsider).
>> >
>> > - The critical part to a code of conduct is how specifically you solicit
>> > reports and show that you're dealing with them.  Ensuring that people
>> > wishing to make reports feel comfortable about the process, and can be
>> > secure their issues will be treated completely confidentially if they
>> > request so.
>> >
>> > Thus, thinking through who the specific individuals are who will get the
>> > incoming CoC issues is important, so that you have a consistent and
>> > timely response.
>>
>> I agree. That's one of the issues I faced when I tried to contact the
>> CoC: I didn't have clear who was behind it. It shouldn't be personal,
>> but, at the same time, you need to know who you are sending your
>> problems to. If not, some people may not feel safe to send anything.
>>
>> >
>> > - Personally, I would *not* include statements about the local event
>> > funding issues (or whatever those are: I'm not involved in active OSGeo
>> > work) in your announcement email.  I would guess your focus *with this
>> > announcement* is on having people be more polite and focused on actual
>> > issues on the list, rather than dealing with any reporting/finance
>> > issues.
>>
>>
>> My original idea was to have two separated statements: one for that
>> issue and the other one more generic.
>>
>> >
>> > Keeping the message simple is important to ensure that any questions
>> > that do come up in replies are just about appropriate conduct.  Keeping
>> > the conversation on this thread (in the announcement) and from the
>> > individuals serving as CoC contact points focused on just the CoC will
>> > help get the message across.
>> >
>> > Does that make sense?
>> >
>> > One minor comment: it seems that you've copied the text for the OSGeo
>> > CoC from other sources.  It would be polite to reference the source you
>> > copied from at the end of the CoC.  Separately, showing where you copied
>> > parts from is a good indicator to community participants that you're
>> > serious about the CoC, since you are re-using widely used terms from
>> > other communities.
>> >
>> > The ASF does this in our CoC:
>> >
>> > https://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct#endnotes
>>
>>
>> Makes sense. I wasn't there for the first version, maybe someone who
>> was on the original group can fill the gaps?
>>
>> >
>> > Hope that helps!
>> >
>> >
>> > - Shane Curcuru
>> >   Punderthings LLC
>> >   Also volunteers as Director and community member at the ASF
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