+1 for this!
As you say, no *reported* incidents doesn't mean no need. In fact, I was
appalled that there was just one woman in the room when I talked about SciPy's
diversity problem last year. I hope a code of conduct is just our first effort
to improve diversity in our monthly meetings.
Thank you!
Juan.
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Javier Candeira <[email protected]>
wrote:
> 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
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