[COC-discuss] Reaching out to other foundations re standardising CoC docs and processes

[Camille Acey]

Hey Cameron,
Sorry for the long delay. I apologize that I don't have a mailing list to
recommend at the moment but I'll pass along info as it becomes available.
Camille

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Camille,
> Excellent credentials. :)
>
> Do you know of an active email list or similar where people are publicly
> discussing future plans? It sounds like that would be the place to focus
> involvement.
>
> Regards, Cameron
>
>
> On 27/10/2015 6:26 am, Camille Acey wrote:
>
> Hey Cameron,
>
> I was involved with the Ada Initiative from 2012 to 2015 and sat on their
> advisory board. Now that TAI is defunct, there are some alumni working on
> starting a new organization that will carry that work forward.
>
> I am also closely affiliated with people who work on Geek Feminism. I
> think I mentioned a lot of this at the outset of the discussion around CoC
> stuff (see archives). Geek Feminism wiki is a fairly good repo of
> efforts(and public reported incidents) to date.
>
> Camille
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Cameron Shorter <
> cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Camille,
>> I wasn't aware that you had been in the space for a while, and am not
>> aware of what other initiatives are in progress. (All I've seen is the
>> artifacts of other projects' hard work.)
>>
>> I'd be interested to hear you expand on what you know of other
>> initiatives, if you have contacts we can reach out to, who you think would
>> be good stewards. Possibly also share some of your history in this space.
>>
>> I do agree that there would likely be other foundations which would be
>> better set up to lead a cross-organisation initiative.
>>
>> Regards, Cameron
>>
>> On 27/10/2015 12:37 am, Camille Acey wrote:
>>
>> There has been a lot of discussion of this in the past few years and I
>> too would love to see this happen but as someone who has been in this space
>> for a while, I think there are other organizations who could be better
>> stewards for such a license and I happen to know of at least one that is
>> attempting to do so in the coming year. It may make sense to wait on them.
>>
>> Camille
>> One of the great things about Open Source and Creative Commons licenses
>> is that there are a few well understood licenses which have had the benefit
>> of refinements from a large community.
>>
>> I'd love to see the same developed for a Code of Conduct and associated
>> documents. It seems a waste of our collective effort to develop multiple
>> versions.
>>
>> It would be more effort to engage others in the short term, but would
>> have great benefits in the medium to long term.
>>
>>
>> How to others feel about this?
>>
>> --
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>> Cameron Shorter,
>> Software and Data Solutions Manager
>> LISAsoft
>> Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
>> 26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009
>>
>> P +61 2 9009 5000,  W www.lisasoft.com,  F +61 2 9009 5099
>>
>>
>
> --
> Cameron Shorter,
> Software and Data Solutions Manager
> LISAsoft
> Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
> 26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009
>
> P +61 2 9009 5000,  W www.lisasoft.com,  F +61 2 9009 5099
>
>
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