[Board] Improve Community Behaviour

[Guido Stein]

Maria,

thanks for putting this together.

I have add some of my comments and an alternate statement to the document.
I created an alternate statement to help clarify the information being
relayed in the document as I saw it and I also removed the details about
events and openness work.

I think a clear statement about what is going on, what you plan to do about
it, and a call to action would get bogged down by a rehash or description
of how things work which could probably go into an actual CoC. I am trying
to set the tone forward thinking and encourage behavior I think is best
rather then try to explain details of operations.

I think that building mechanisms for reporting CoC violations and clarity
about how things work will be key to the CoC. At the risk of sharing
something you already have a handle on, I recommend reading this article
about CoC: https://opensource.guide/code-of-conduct/

I hope that this is helpful. If my alternative text is too distracting,
feel free to blow it away. I am here to help, not tell anyone how to be. I
would have left comments and edits in the document without an alternative,
but found it difficult to do so because I had a difference approach.

I applaud everyone for participating in this conversation and putting in
their two cents.

-Guido


On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 8:25 AM Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
wrote:

> 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
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