Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership

[Michael Meeks <michael meeks novell com>]

Hi Lucas / Philip,

On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 16:20 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 12:48 +0000, Lucas Rocha wrote:
> > The Board has recently received some complaints from members of the
> > community about certain the inappropriate behaviors. In the context of
> > GNOME Foundation, it's really hard to argue about how we expect our
> > members to behave if there is no official guidelines that members are
> > supposed to comply with.
..
> My opinion is that incidents like this can be better managed by asking
> the maintainers of the planet to do editorial control, and to not shun
> away from skipping blog posts.

	So - the way I read the code of conduct is: "Be polite !" - and though
in general I dislike rules, it seems fairly hard to argue against that
sort of thing.

	I like the requirement to ask new members to agree with the code, and
there should be no need for signing [ of course ], or is putting your
name in a wiki list signing these days ? ;-)

	Having said all that, I personally feel the planet should be a place
where people can be themselves; and if people fundamentally find -me-
offensive, I hope they can at least tolerate my burblings, and skip my
commentary on the delicate flavour of stewed toejam - or whatever ;-)
rather than having some two-dimensionally bland, political correct view
of the people working on the project.

	Either way, it seems a sensible idea to me.

	Regards,

		Michael.

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