David Nelson wrote: > Michael wrote: > > Members are expected to refrain from any kind of expression of > > racism, xenophobia, sexism and religious or political > > intolerance. > > > > This sounds like a vow of chastity :-) It appears to apply to the > > whole > > of life, and not just to engagement with TDF etc. As such is is somewhat > > offensive, and in itself an oxymoron: "I can't tolerate your > > intolerance" ;-). Many communities have people with strong, colorful and > > opposing views expressed in strong terms. This to me is a sign of health > > and diversity - instead of some bland pea-soup of non-expression :-) > > Again, I'm afraid don't agree with you. One of the negative things > about many FOSS projects is the kind of negative behavior, attitudes > and treatment that people sometimes have to put up with - there have > been several threads in the TDF lists where it has occurred. I suspect > that there would be plenty of people who would support what I've > written. > Hi David, all,
there's a fine line here, and somewhat of a difference e.g. between US- and european countries, when it comes to the aforementioned points. We've made it a rule in TDF, to not prematurely over-regulate - so I'd generally be in favour of using common sense, instead of blacklisting topics (which is not gonna cover all future cases anyway). On that grounds, what about staying with the sentence before (which is a whitelist, and thus inherently much more positive in tone): "Every Member is expected to deal with other Community Members and with our end users with courtesy, forbearance, objectivity, open-mindedness, friendliness, understanding, patience and goodwill." and striking the contentious sentence for the while? Do you see any of the blacklisted topics not covered by the positive statement? Cheers, -- Thorsten -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
