Ben, I know you haven't advocated the removal of the CoC (or #84 for that matter), but you've questioned speech and behaviour limitations upthread, so I thought I would include my thougths of a CoC in general.
Just because the code of conduct hasn't been used for intervention (forgetting the one instance you've mentioned for now), it doesn't mean that it's not a useful tool to have. I would like to think that common sense would prevail, but we've seen instances in similar communities where it has not. You should not (IMO) need a CoC to tell you not to tell sexual jokes at a conference. The organisers should not need (IMO) a CoC to justify intervention. But certain groups of people feel safer or more included attending events where they feel like professional behaviour is encouraged and enforced where necessary. Some attendees that may not have a complete idea of what constitutes professional behaviour can learn from the CoC. And organisers have clear direction (authority) of what constitutes desirable behaviour. I, personally, feel that calling out specific negative behaviour is useful for the educational aspect. It is clear that some people have, at other conferences, not been aware that their behaviour was inappropriate. Codifying certain examples of undesirable behaviour seems like a good thing to me. The language of #86 does not introduce new "examples" of positive or negative behaviour though. It specifically tries to apply the existing code to non-django spaces, so I think that debating the merits of inclusive or exclusive behaviour should probably belong to a separate discussion. Regards, Josh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/25aa3758-b4ba-4570-8498-a9bb8e333f33%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
