Actually, it should be someone who is able to detect possible obstacles that put Asians or Women out of GNOME (or in general Free Software). I doubt that anyone have any emprical study about that. But is it harsh and rude behavior of developers or the community? Or technical limits? Or even communication problems? (ie. English knowledge or something). First thing is to come up with a reasonable problems that new comers would come across. And later people should follow a pathway to get rid of these obstacles. Actually Code of Conduct may only be successful for new comers if we detect those problems correctly. For that reason, ideas of the fresh community members is more important. If you're experienced then either you did not have any problem or you might even forgot those problems you'd encountered in past. Though, you might still remember old days, but chances are low. IMHO, Code Of Conduct (or GNOME Ethics) should be written for that very reason. Experienced members of the community might and would forget the problems for newcomers. Something should remind them. But still first thing to do is to detect obstacles first. Else, outcome of this work, won't get further than saying "Be nice to each other" with rhetoric. On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 09:05 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: > On 6/1/06, Dave Neary <dneary free fr> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Luis Villa wrote: > > > Such a plan should be written by someone who has actually been > > > involved in IRC, our mailing lists, bugzilla, etc., *as a developer*- > > > which, sorry, isn't Anne. It will not work if it is not driven by > > > someone with such experience. > > > > That's not so. There's nothing preventing someone who isn't a developer > > from comping up with a credible strategy for getting more women involved > > in GNOME (although that's totally off-topic to the code of conduct > > discussion). Any such plan would have to appeal to geek women - so who's > > better placed to come up with a plan? A male geek or a female non-geek? > > A female geek? > > Luis > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
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