I agree with Matthias here, this mailing list should absolutely remain civil.
I want to thank everyone for their feedback so far. It seems we have reached a fix point as to what the community wants wrt a CoC. I am inclined to that at this point we should hand it off to the main RacketCon organizers and let them decide what to do. (They are running the show after all.) I would be happy to do the technical work of submitting a PR to the website, but I will leave it to one of the organizers to decide if they want to merge it or not. Thank you again for your input. ~Leif Andersen On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 8:05 AM, Mark Wunsch <m...@markwunsch.com> wrote: > In an attempt to be more "scientific" about this I would point to the > writing and actions of some other prominent language communities, as they > have made the argument FOR having a CoC much better than I could. Before > that, I think we (as practitioners and members of a technical community) > should accept that the reports of harassment, exclusion, and even assault > are startling and far more numerous then any of us should feel comfortable > with. > > The Python Software Foundation requires a CoC for all Conference grants: > http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2012/12/psf-moves-to-require- > code-of-conduct.html > Jacob Kaplan-Moss, of the Python community, writes quite well on the > subject: https://jacobian.org/writing/codes-of-conduct/ > See also, Mikeal Rogers of the NodeJS community: > https://medium.com/node-js-javascript/codes-of-conduct-82ab2d88112d > The Scala CoC: https://www.scala-lang.org/conduct.html > The Clojure/conj CoC: http://2016.clojure-conj.org/policies/ > The Rust CoC: https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/conduct.html > > One question that comes to mind is "Does the Racket community believe it > is immune from the issues that these other communities believe should be > addressed, and if so why?" Scientific communities have long embraced codes > of ethics and conduct (see: https://www.acm.org/about-acm/ > acm-code-of-ethics-and-professional-conduct). Consider that a Code of > Conduct is a mechanism that explicitly articulates those things that the > Racket community leaders might see as implicit to making the community > successful. > > Finally, Ashe Dryden has an extensive FAQ around Codes of Conduct: > https://www.ashedryden.com/blog/codes-of-conduct-101-faq > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
