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

[Cameron Shorter]

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 <mailto: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?
>>
>>     -- 
>>     Cameron Shorter,
>>     Software and Data Solutions Manager
>>     LISAsoft
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>>     Cameron Shorter,
>>     Software and Data Solutions Manager
>>     LISAsoft
>>     Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
>>     26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009
>>
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>
>

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Cameron Shorter,
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LISAsoft
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26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009

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