Choosing a Code of Conduct

[niccokunzmann]

I had a call with the Diversity and Inclusion support group from the Association for Progressive Communication (APC).

They recommended among other documentation improvements having a Code of Conduct (CoC). GitHub also recommends having this. As this has positive effects such as:

• We demonstrate more awareness and having a language and space around that.
• We actually have a guide at what to look for.

My motivation: The icalendar ecosystem in Python should aid people to meet and agree and share times, events and more. However, the community seems mostly white, male, US/EU based. As such, we do not provide proper representation of what is needed for most people on the planet as well as most calendar users. A CoC can improve safety of expression and clarity to build and open up. The icalendar CoC is important because it weaves a lot of projects together. I would like to use the same CoC for the projects I am maintaining if they are connected to this project.

Recommendations were:

• https://www.contributor-covenant.org/
• https://www.djangoproject.com/conduct/
• https://plone.org/foundation/about/materials/foundation-resolutions/code-of-conduct

With that, I would like to open a discussion around the CoC. I would value if you could tell me:

1. Which Code of Conduct makes most sense to you (for this project)?
2. Which communities are you connected to?
3. How do you imagine working towards a CoC on your projects and collaborating to maintain the pledge?

Asking @mauritsvanrees @stevepiercy @jacadzaca @geier @abe-101 @tobixen for your input to this and perspectives from different backgrounds.

[tobixen]

I don't have strong opinions on this, other than that the CoC it should be as short as possible. It may link to or reference longer texts if necessarily.

Slightly CoC-relevant, while I'm not agreeing to everything there, https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2013/be_cordial_or_be_on_your_way is a good read.

[tobixen]

It's all about standards, isn't it? The contributor-covenant seems to be the standard, so let's stick to that?

[stevepiercy]

https://www.contributor-covenant.org/ is brief, direct, and relevant. Let's go with this one, and add contact methods. There should be both at least one via GitHub comments and one that is private and secure.

It would be nice to have non-white males of western cultures to review the request to investigate a claim.

[tobixen]

python-caldav/caldav#494 - any opinions?

[abe-101]

I don't either have a strong opinion on this one.
I'm somewhat involved in the Django community

[yam949]

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