[OSGeo-Discuss] Improving Code-of-Conduct

[Mark Iliffe]

This would be good - learning from the Dar FOSS4G experience would be a good starting place for this. Unfortunately,y not many people believe that the laws and codes of conduct we create need to be refreshed and amended to keep in pace with our community.

> On 22 Jun 2018, at 18:18, María Arias de Reyna <delawen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
That's exactly what I'm trying to do. 

Massive +1

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