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

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

>
> 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.

Yes, that makes sense.

Murray Cumming
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