[Battlemesh] Code of conduct

[Amadeus Alfa]

According to the statistics 9 out of 10 people think bullying is ok.

Best wishes,
Amadeus


> On 30 Jul 2015, at 10:42, Nemesis <nemesis at ninux.org> wrote:
> 
> Although I don't like the name "Code of conduct", I support the practice
> of protecting individuals from harassment.
> 
> I am really tired of participating to wireless community initiatives and
> being harassed verbally or via mail.
> 
> At the battlemesh this has not happened - YET. Yes there have been
> heated discussions but that's ok and we need that!
> 
> But we should be able to deal with harassment it if it happens.
> 
> What do I mean for harassment? Stuff like yelling, bad sexist jokes,
> racism, bullying, threaths and I would go as far as to mention seeding
> discontent and mistrust in the community.
> 
> The bad thing about harassment is that it will make your community lose
> genuine participants while the harassers and the bullies remain, in the
> long run you'll have a group of bullies and passive people that tolerate
> them, while the rest who can't tolerate the bullies will leave. I've
> seen this situation happening several times already over the years and
> it's very demotivating.
> 
> The event organizers and hosts can deal with it - if they want. It's
> just a matter of will. And it is surely much easier to enforce such
> giudelines during an event that happens in a week rather than an entire
> wireless community that needs ongoing effort.
> 
> I think the price to pay for enforcing a code of conduct it's much
> cheaper than the price to pay for tolerating harassment, which
> ultimately leads to the death of a community.
> 
> +1 for a code of conduct, or if you like a better name, participation
> guidelines.
> 
> Federico
> 
> 
> 
> On 07/30/2015 04:00 AM, Mitar wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> OK, I hopped it is clear why code of conduct is needed.
>> 
>> Code of conduct is to empower individuals who experience conduct
>> violation. Not for the community as a whole. If community as a whole
>> experience something problematic, community can handle it. But the
>> question is what are we providing to individuals to feel safe and
>> welcome? Are we providing for them some "rules of the space" to give
>> them such safe space? So that they can know what to expect, that their
>> backs are covered, and what are steps they can take if they feel violated.
>> 
>> Also, having code of conduct is useful because it can make violations be
>> handled privately, without victim having to expose themselves publicly,
>> making the whole thing public. Sometimes it can be a pretty easy
>> solution (apologizing and recognizing the issue), but if the issue gets
>> pumped to the whole community, because this is the only way we know how
>> to deal with things, it can get out of hands (victim blaming/shaming, etc.).
>> 
>> We want our conference to be inclusive and safe space. And existence of
>> code of conduct is a signal that we are at least trying to make it so.
>> 
>> If you feel that it is not needed, congratulations, you are lucky and/or
>> privileged. But can you imagine a situation when something happens to
>> somebody/they experience something and they do not know what to do? To
>> whom to talk? What, the best option is to send a public e-mail to the
>> mailing list?
>> 
>> If your answer is, "no, they should just go and talk to XY", exactly,
>> then we have a code of conduct, so let's just write it down.
>> 
>> This one is a good code of conduct for events:
>> 
>> http://opensourcebridge.org/about/code-of-conduct/
>> 
>> Another great resource:
>> 
>> http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassment/Policy
>> 
>> (See the answer under "Why have an official anti-harassment policy for
>> your conference?")
>> 
>> http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Code_of_conduct_evaluations
>> 
>> See also section under "diversity":
>> 
>> https://opensource.com/life/15/7/how-to-plan-an-open-source-event
>> 
>> 
>> Mitar
>> 
>>> 
>>> On 29/07/15 20:48, Gio wrote:
>>>> I agree with Antonio, in the past we had an incident with a talk that was
>>>> military propaganda, almost everyone boycotted the talk as soon as she/he
>>>> realized it was military propaganda, there was no code of conduct but
>>>> community expressed his will, and from that moment everyone know that
>>>> military
>>>> stuff are not welcomed at Battlemesh
>>> You should probably rephrase that to 'any propaganda / marketing talk is
>>> not welcome, and that includes from government, companies and everyone
>>> else'.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
> 
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