[OSGeo-Discuss] Improving Code-of-Conduct

[María Arias de Reyna]

That's exactly what I'm trying to do.

El sáb., 23 jun. 2018 0:17, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
escribió:

> (Changed title to reflect this conversation is about Code-of-Conduct
> improvements).
>
> Maria,
>
> I'm going to float a "wish-ware" idea here. Wishware is where someone
> wishes for a piece of software (or CoC in this case) and some magic
> geek-fairies go and write it for them because the idea is so good that
> others are attracted to make it happen.
>
> I wish that instead of every foundation and project writing their own CoC,
> everyone bands together and creates a "Code-of-Conduct Foundation" which
> takes responsibility for creating a set of standard Code of Conducts, which
> are maintained by everyone. Something like the Creative Commons licenses
> for data, or the Open Source licenses defined by OSI.
>
> Then we don't need to spend huge amounts of time debating words within our
> CoC, all we do is decide if we go with CoC-Virtual-Forums or
> CoC-Face-Conferences, or CoC-Short-Version, or .... (whatever they end up
> being called).
>
> This would require one person initially, growing into a team of people,
> who would draw together the various authors of Codes-of-Conduct, and
> attract a commitment from a few projects to use the new Code-of-Conduct.
>
> Maybe this might be your calling? It would be a huge amount of effort, but
> would also be hugely valuable and an excellent gift to humanity.
>
> On 23/6/18 7:58 am, María Arias de Reyna wrote:
>
>
>
> El vie., 22 jun. 2018 23:35, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> escribió:
>
>>
>> Maria, re the Code-of-Conduct, I agree with Christian. Rewriting it to
>> create rules which consider all future opportunities for human conflict is
>> utopian, impractical and ultimately unachievable.
>>
>
> I agree with that. But a static CoC is also impractical, considering that
> in the last years CoCs have advanced a lot and now we know what works
> better on each kind of organizations.
>
> What I propose is to evolve, not to throw all the work already done. As I
> already said on previous mails, the work done was outstanding for the time
> it was written. Which may seem very recently but considering how much we
> have advanced, is already old.
>
> There have been a huge number of person-hours which have been put into the
>> numerous Code-Of-Conducts which our OSGeo Code-Of-Conduct was based upon. I
>> think we keep our Code-of-Conduct as simple as possible, and rely on our
>> underlying morals, ethics, and collective intelligence to address concerns
>> as they arise.
>>
>
> My plan is not to complicate it, but to make it stronger.
>
> Let me give you one simple example of something that doesn't make sense
> right now:
>
> We cannot say dirty words, but we can harass someone using beautiful words
> as long as we claim good intent. That doesn't make sense.
>
> So, precisely one of the things you quote above as what we should do is
> one of the things that are wrong.
>
> This article can explain the situation better than me:
> https://thebias.com/2017/09/26/how-good-intent-undermines-diversity-and-inclusion/
>
> This would be the easiest thing to propose to change because once you
> understand it, it becomes obvious. But there's more.
>
>
>>
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