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Moved over to Diversity/CoCWorkingGroup/Resources
Research for Event Code of Conduct
Overview
The CoC working group will be doing some research to ensure that their proposal is as well-informed as possible.
Some questions to guide our research are:
What do other comparable conferences use for their CoC? e.g. Akademy, Ubuntu, LibrePlanet, FOSDEM
- Do other organizations have a standard CoC, or do they expect organizers to come up with one for each conference?
- Do we need to seek legal advice for discrimination laws or anything else that may vary per country?
- What is a "GNOME event"? Does this only apply to conferences, or also to things like hackfests?
- What has GNOME done in the past, what worked and what didn't?
Resources
GNOME
Code of conduct and enforcement policy from GUADEC 2014
Code of conduct and enforcement policy from GUADEC 2015
Code of conduct and enforcement policy from GUADEC 2016
Note from the person who sent this resource: The Desktop Summit CoC was drafted with the intention that it be used as a standard CoC for GNOME events moving forward. It is based on the anti-harrassment policy promoted at the time by Project Aurora, with some modifications (including a change of name) to make the general message one of positive reinforcement.
General
Example policy on the Geek Feminism wiki
Code of conduct resources on the Geek Feminism wiki
Frame Shift Consulting conference incident response guide and workshop slides
Video from the "Enforcing Your Code of Conduct: Effective Incident Response talk by Audrey Eschright
Harassment isn't an interpersonal issue, it's a health and safety issue blog post by Stephanie Zvan
Deciding if or when a harasser may return to an event blog post by Stephanie Zvan
Example of a physical note about a Code of Conduct at PyCon Australia
Example of an incident response report to an incident of inappropriate images being used in slides at Wikimania
Software Carpentry draft CoC includes notes on their process, formation of their committee, etc.
An article with some thoughts from lawyers
Abstractions Policy & Procedures - takeaway: try to avoid vague, subjective rules that could be interpreted in many ways