Re: [gnome-women] What's the plan?

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

On 29/05/2006, at 5:01 PM, Murray Cumming wrote:

> > > >   - How do we avoid this looking like a place for men to find  
> > > > women?
> > > > Would a code of conduct help?
> >
> > YES. Plus a procedure for reporting and managing breaches of it.
>
> At the moment, I guess that a whole beaurocratic structure to handle
> problems would be hard to get going and would make this appear less
> attractive. Plus people would tend to leave all "enforcement" up to  
> the
> beaurocracy instead of just saying "Hey, that's not good. It's really
> against our code of conduct".
>
> I think Ubuntu's code of conduct is successful because of the  
> expectations
> that it creates rather than the organizational structure it creates. I
> would like GNOME's Code Of Conduct to be simpler.

I don't mean anything heavy or detailed. But you do need somewhere to  
start. If someone is threatened or hurt in some way, they need to  
have some way to tell us about it.

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
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