[Board] Improve Community Behaviour

[Jeff McKenna]

Thanks María, edited.  -jeff


On 2018-08-11 6:46 AM, María Arias de Reyna wrote:
> 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