Today, reading Kathy Levinson's powerful piece on sexism and whistleblowing [1], I've realised that MPUG doesn't have a Code of Conduct.
[1] https://medium.com/@katylevinson/sexism-in-tech-don-t-ask-me-unless-you-re-ready-to-call-somebody-a-whistleblower-e5d545e547b0 Yeah, "we've never have had problems in the past" yada yada, but I've never had to file a police report for assault either, that doesn't mean laws on assault aren't needed. So I'd like to add a reference to a Code of Conduct to our wiki page, and to mention that the organisers will personally do our best to enforce it. I like Pycon's CoC [2], but it mentions Pycon and Linux Australia, which have nothing to do with us, except we're a Python User Group and some of us also attend those... hardly a legal afiliation. I also like the Apache Foundationś CoC [3], though it's a bit too long. What the Pycon one loses in exhaustiveness, it gains in brevity. [2] http://2013.pycon-au.org/register/code_of_conduct [3] https://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct.html I'd definitely much rather not have to write and maintain a CoC myself. Any idea of a clean "white-label" CoC that we can just link to? I know, lazy, but I'd like to get this done tonight. If no suggestion comes for a better solution, I'll add a line to the wiki stating that MPUG meetings are not ran by Pycon or Linux Australia, but its organisers adhere to Pycon's Code of Conduct in matters of civility and inclusivity. Cheers, Javier _______________________________________________ melbourne-pug mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug
