[Koha] Comment: Koha Community Code of Conduct

[glaws]

I wish I knew the background better, but a lot of the recent discussion
on Codes of Conduct I think stems from some recent problems in the
gaming community. Again, I admit my knowledge is limited, but I think it
had something to do with male gamers putting down female gamers; very
offensive words and actions were used in that situation, and the
"outing" of personally identifying information was one of the problems.

I think any reasonable person applying a reasonable standard would
realize the CoC wording as is currently stands wouldn't apply to the
examples I cited, nor to yours. It's the unreasonable factors we have to
be concerned with, and just a little modding of the wording will fix things.


Greg

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On 09/26/2014 04:12 PM, Viktor.Sarge at regionhalland.se wrote:
> I highly agree with the spirit of the CoC, but with this discussion I realize that taking the following part literally would forbid me to give people credit when listening to them during a KohaCon: 
>
> "Harassment includes, but is not limited to:
> […]
> 	• Posting (or threatening to post) other people’s personally identifying information.
> […]
>
> Names are the mother of personally identifying information and since a good reputation is sort of the currency in a FOSS-community not being able to publicly give people credit seems counter productive :) I guess the paragraph is ment to cover giving credit, but as I read it that may be the effect(?)
>
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> 26 sep 2014 kl. 21:49 skrev glaws <glawson at rhcl.org>:
>
>> I have some concerns about the Koha Community Code of Conduct posted here:
>>
>> http://koha-community.org/about/policy/code-of-conduct/
>> <http://koha-community.org/about/policy/code-of-conduct/>
>>
>> My specific concern is the second bullet point:
>>
>> Harassment includes, but is not limited to:
>>
>>  * ---snip---
>>  * Verbal, graphic or written comments related to gender, gender
>>    identity, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body
>>    size, race or religion
>>
>>
>> which seems overly broad.
>>
>> Examples
>>
>> If, during a conference breaking for lunch, I say to a group of
>> attendees "I'm Buddhist, is there a vegetarian restaurant near here?", I
>> would seem to have violated this point (verbal...comment...religion).
>>
>> Or if I'm a presenter, and I make a comment for illustrative purposes,
>> like "Just as people come in all sizes, libraries also vary in size and
>> Koha is great for all of them", have I violated the code?
>>
>> Or if I'm with a group of attendees planning on going out somewhere, and
>> I say "I have <insert any health problem>, and I can't walk with you
>> that far", is that a violation?
>>
>> I would like to suggest that the wording for this particular point
>> include something to the effect that the references must be obviously
>> negative in nature or perhaps intended to give offense to to an average
>> person _based_on_some_reasonable_standard_.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Greg Lawson
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