Re: Meeting Minutes Published - October 29, 2009

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le mardi 24 novembre 2009, à 23:53 +0100, Andy Wingo a écrit :
> Hi Brian,
> 
> Thanks for the detailed and readable notes!
> 
> On Fri 13 Nov 2009 22:27, Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM> writes:
> 
> > Minutes for Meeting of October 29th, 2009
> [...]
> >       More generally, we need to make sure that GNOME Foundation members
> >       sign the GNOME Code of Conduct, and perhaps make it a requirement
> >       for new members to sign. Also need to update the GNOME blog and
> >       planet so that it is more clear that people should follow the
> >       GNOME Code of Conduct.
> 
> A couple of thoughts:
> 
> First, the planet has always been under editorial control; it has a
> maintainer, like any other module -- actually a few of them.
> 
> Therefore, what is or is not on the planet may fairly be seen to be
> under the purview of the maintainer(s), who are there due to their
> respected position in the field of their module, in this case in the
> "public discourse" of GNOME. So they can promote or censure certain
> kinds of speech as they see fit.

Yep. And it is expected by the current editors that blog posts that
appear on Planet GNOME respect the Code of Conduct :-) It's mentioned in
the guidelines for Planet GNOME in the wiki, but it's not mentioned in
the current footer.

> Secondly, binding or pseudo-binding resolutions on the Foundation
> membership should probably be ratified by the Foundation membership
> itself via some more formal process. As it is I don't think a majority
> have "signed" the CoC. (FWIW, I have.)

Nod. Actually, I think there was an action item about starting a
discussion here on this topic... I guess the mail is in the draft folder
somewhere, it should hopefully arrive soon ;-)

Cheers,

Vincent

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