[CREATE] Code of Conduct

Tobias Ellinghaus houz at gmx.de
Tue Jan 14 16:06:03 PST 2014


Am Dienstag, 14. Januar 2014, 22:40:51 schrieb Andrew Chadwick:

[...]

> Codes of conduct are mostly just "don't be obnoxious; listen, respect,
> learn" written out in long form with some specifics about what's not
> to be tolerated. Granted, they say what shouldn't need to be said and
> are always written in the hope they don't have to be invoked; but they
> also publicly state that the organizers care about what happens to
> people at the conference and how welcome they feel.

I don't know about you, but when I approach a group of people that have given 
themselves rules like that my first thought would be "OMFG, do I really want to 
get in touch with them? Terrible things must have happened there".

[...]

Tobias
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