[diversity-talk] OSM code of conduct: starting points

[Jo Walsh]

Okay, my gloss on this is that the Code of Conduct is a kind of shibboleth
and a kind of insurance policy.

You need one in order to be seen taking this stuff seriously, conversely to
lack one suggests the community is not really engaging, at least OSM has
several good faith efforts ;)

I am imagining something really minimal, a few points that a person would
obviously have to be a real asshole to disagree with. In OSM's case this
might cover vandalising the map, as well as abusive behaviours. The below
excerpt from the geekfeminism wiki is more targeted at conferences i think,
and prescriptive sounding but reasonable in principle.

"Important elements of an effective code of conduct include:

   - Specific descriptions of common but unacceptable behavior (sexist
   jokes, etc.)
   - Reporting instructions with contact information
   - Information about how it may be enforced

 Codes of conduct which lack any one of these items tend not to have the
intended effect."

If you kept a central Code very short and obvious then you could adopt it
and then kind of subclass it when you had more specific needs - such as at
SoTM or on the mailing lists...









On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:

>  On 10/8/2014 3:03 AM, Dan S wrote:
>
> Plus I may have missed out suggestions from others!
>
>  A very recent one is the proposed Stack Exchange one at
> http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/240594/272090. One of the comments makes
> the point that a one-size fits all CoC doesn't work, and there are specific
> issues to any community. For example, SE deals with a lot of inexperienced
> users asking questions, so issues were raised around that. For OSM, we need
> to figure out what's needed for us and other open data projects. Do we have
> examples of CoCs from other open data projects? I checked Freebase and
> didn't find a CoC.
>
> Because we're intrinsically a *geographic* project, the following
> comments from the SE CoC proposal are of particular relevance
>
> - http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/240638/272090
> - http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/240635/272090
> - General comments about not having English as a first language
>
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