Hi, On Thursday, 2017-01-12 12:24:47 +0100, Katarina Behrens wrote:
> it has been brought to my attention that one of our (female) contributors, > who > is also a TDF member (this is why membership committee is in Cc:) has been > harassed in a private mail by someone who reads development and general user > mailing list. This is of course inacceptable. > This is quite a strong incentive for me to bring up the topic that is > perceived as controversial by many, namely (the lack of) code of conduct in > the community around TDF and (the absence of) action plan, as for what to do, > when bad things happen. > > The most frequent (and in fact the only) argument I hear when mentioning code > of conduct, or the fact that TDF has no code of conduct to be precise, is > "but > but but, we're such a bunch of nice guys, nothing bad has ever happened here, > nobody has ever been harassed, so why bother, why restrict freedom of speech > preemptively etc." I agree we'll need such code of conduct. Even if we are (or were?) a bunch of only friendly people it would be no reason to not have one to make others feel more safe and secure who are not yet. Personally I like the Berlin Code of Conduct http://berlincodeofconduct.org/ which is already supported by various user and hacker groups. If agreed, I suggest we make a formal decision at Bruxelles during our meet-ups along FOSDEM. Eike -- GPG key "ID" 0x65632D3A - 2265 D7F3 A7B0 95CC 3918 630B 6A6C D5B7 6563 2D3A Better use 64-bit 0x6A6CD5B765632D3A here is why: https://evil32.com/ Eike Rathke, Member of the Board of Directors The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, Germany Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint
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