Hi, On 06/02/2014 07:38 AM, Kathleen Danielson wrote: > Simply starting a new thread here to discuss implementing a Code of > Conduct in our community
I think we should extend this a bit, and instead of having a "Code of Conduct" we shold have a document that says "How to be a good mapper". This would include the standard elements of a code of conduct - e.g. about courtesy, respect, and methods of conflict resolution - but it would also attempt to transport some of our core values. A pure "Code of Conduct" is mostly interchangeable, and there's no real reason why ours would have to be different than anybody else's. What I'd like to see is a document that doesn't say "how to be a nice person in general" but "how to make a valuable contribution to our common goal". There are lots of rules, many un-written, that would make sense to collect in one place. The old talk about not mapping for the renderer; the "on-the-ground rule", the demand for verifiability, or specific rules like don't start an edit war, use changeset comments when your edits are bound to raise eyebrows, etc; many of these rules are also not "hard and fast" but just something that will generally be expected of you. It would be probably be very helpful for new mappers to have a chance to look at this. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
