Hi all,
Le mercredi, 3 septembre 2014, 18.55:04 Ian Jackson a écrit :
> I hope that regardless of your opinions about the specific incident,
> you would support the ideas that:
>
> - If we have a CoC it should be enforced.
(Snipped a lot of administrativia suggestions.)
"To enforce" is the wrong verb, I think.
I've always read and understood the CoC as a declaration of intent, a
generic behavior framework; in short, what I understand as a "Code of
Conduct": "this is how we collectively intend to behave to make our
face-to-face events the best possible experiences for all attendees".
Such a code will always lay down blurry lines, which trespassing will
always be highly subjective.
Seeing the CoC as a guideline, I don't think we should add _more_
administrativia to _enforce_ it, much the contrary.
People will hurt others' feelings in various situations, but most of
these situations don't need to be treated with a big administrative
overhead. In fact, approaching another attendee and telling her "I
didn't feel treated with respect when you {said,did} that and that." or
"Did you notice that this statement of yours might have been taken as an
offense by this other participant?" [0]. There's no need to refer to the
CoC when saying so, but it helps adjusting each other's behaviors for a
healthy conference.
The CoC should not be seen as law, it certainly isn't: by its nature, it
doesn't say "this class of actions will give you a yellow card, this
other class will get you expelled from the conference" (and it most
certainly should not). I think that we should all consider ourselves
guardians of the CoC and push towards its goals throughout the various
Debian events we attend. When severe violations occur, we do have
[email protected] which _must_ have some interpretation and action room
to proceed to useful feedbacks to offenders or actions against them. All
severe violations _will_ be different and will call to different
actions.
In conclusion, I think we should stop building administrative procedures
to enforce the CoC but start integrating it as a part of our collective
and individual responsibilities as Debian events attendees; there's
antiharassment@ for the upper tier of violations. We should stop seeing
the CoC as ways to restrain others, but rather as a set of tools to
collectively make our conferences better places to be. We can all make
this happen without layers of appeal bodies.
Cheers,
OdyX
[0] I've got this type of feedback twice during the conference, and I'm
very thankful of both.
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