Hi all, There was an interesting discussion, alongside a reference to a free book I'd not come across, in the XSF Chatroom starting here by "pep.":
XSF Discussion - 2021-06-28 (xmpp.org) <https://logs.xmpp.org/xsf/2021-06-28?p=h#2021-06-28-a3970c1480b7787b> Of particular note here is how we deal with reports concerning members of the Conduct Team and Board. As noted below, this could benefit from clarification, but the key points for me are: - The Board is subject to the Code of Conduct as leading participants in the community, and as noted in Section 4.1, should be held to a particularly high standard. - Members of the Board can only be removed subject to our bylaws - an EGM and 50% vote. Calling an EGM takes 10% of the membership, which is currently 5.1 people. Sam's suggestion that the CoC have the ability to call an EGM is surprisingly reachable without changing the Bylaws - and the moment you involve the Board it should be easy. - XSF Members can only be removed with an EGM and 67% of the vote, which is somewhat harder to achieve. - In both cases, though, a lot of sanctions can still be applied if needed. The book: cocguide.pdf (frameshiftconsulting.com) <https://files.frameshiftconsulting.com/books/cocguide.pdf>, with intro here: Code of Conduct book – Frame Shift Consulting <https://frameshiftconsulting.com/resources/code-of-conduct-book/> It should be noted that the book doesn't cover our exact situation, because it assumes that a community always has the power of instant expulsion, which we do not, as noted above. The book raises a lot of points, and I'm glad to say many of them I'd come across elsewhere and incorporated, but a few need to be noted and possibly incorporated: - Every sanction or action gets a report. This report might be anonymized. I've not discussed the possibility of anonymizing the report, and I think that's going to be sensible in most (perhaps all) cases. - The report should always be made available at least to those who witnessed and/or were affected by the event. The book discusses a case where the target of sexist comments left the community, unaware that the person making them had been talked to, understood the effect of their comments, and had agreed to stop. I think I had this in an unpublished draft, but it's not there now as explicitly. - The book recommends that decisions made by the Conduct Team are unanimous, and the decision-making process isn't discussed outside of the team. I think collective responsibility for these decisions is important, but I think this may be one of the cases where we differ - the Conduct Team has the power to bounce things up to the Board. But we should probably stipulate that these discussions should remain confidential. - The book also stipulates that a CoC should include that anyone on the Board or Conduct Team recuse themselves from a Conduct discussion if they've had the report about them. I didn't stipulate this in the document, but only because it didn't occur to me that someone so accused wouldn't do so - it makes sense to include this. The book also covers a lot more than this, and if you're considering being on the Board or the Conduct Team, I'd highly recommend reading it. Dave. On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 at 18:27, Jonas Schäfer <jo...@wielicki.name> wrote: > Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0458 (Community Code of Conduct) has been > released. > > Abstract: > This document describes the XMPP Standard Foundation's Code of Conduct > > Changelog: > Integrate various comments from various sources (dwd) > > URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0458.html > > Note: The information in the XEP list at https://xmpp.org/extensions/ > is updated by a separate automated process and may be stale at the > time this email is sent. The XEP documents linked herein are up-to- > date. > _______________________________________________ > Standards mailing list > Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards > Unsubscribe: standards-unsubscr...@xmpp.org > _______________________________________________ >
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