Re: Meeting Minutes Published - October 29, 2009

[Lucas Rocha <lucasr gnome org>]

Hi,

2009/11/24 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 ;-)

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--lucasr