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  1. Thanks to a volunteer translator, Contributor Covenant 3.0 is now available in Hungarian (Magyar), the 7th language for the latest version of the code of conduct. So many thanks to Mukli Krisztián for the amazing work!

    contributor-covenant.org/trans

  2. The whole point of adding community members is to change the community in some beneficial way. Being welcoming takes active, ongoing effort.

    https://duckalignment.academy/welcoming/
  3. Ah, the thrilling saga of tech titans squabbling over a Code of Conduct! 🤡 #SparkFun drops #AdaFruit like a hot potato, because clearly, nothing screams professionalism like a playground-level tiff. 🔥 Meanwhile, their site navigates like a labyrinth designed by someone who hates users. 🤦‍♂️
    sparkfun.com/official-response #technews #drama #CodeOfConduct #userexperience #HackerNews #ngated

  4. Anyone have recommendations for a CoC to help increase the joy, well-being, and inclusivity of a multi-generational community chat space? I'm trying to set something up for my martial arts WhatsApp community. We've grown to like 50 people in there from all over the states (and a few beyond) and it's starting to require a bit of care-based tending. 🙏🙏🙏

    #codeofconduct

  5. I decided it was time to add a Code of Conduct to #Schemacs

    https://codeberg.org/ramin_hal9001/schemacs/src/branch/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

    I have been getting a lot of inquiries about Schemacs lately, and so I think it is best to settle on a Code of Conduct (CoC) right now before I find myself in the awkward position of accepting a lot of patches from various people who later on turn out to hate each other. Hopefully we wont ever find ourselves in such a situation, but it is best to be prepared.

    I decided to go with the Contributor Covenant 3.0, which provides a template for a CoC that adapts well to various projects. If I recall correctly, I believe I learned about it from Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber on one of her podcasts.

    I am open to recommendations for changes to be made to the CoC as well, I understand that my knowledge of such things is imperfect and I am willing to learn about various opinions regarding codes-of-conduct if anyone is willing to teach me more.

    And of course, #Schemacs is free software, so anyone is welcome to fork it and develop it separately if you disagree with the CoC. But as long as I am the project manager for #Schemacs I will make the executive decision about the CoC.

    #tech #software #CodeOfConduct #Scheme #SchemeLang #R7RS #Lisp #Emacs #FLOSS #FOSS

  6. Wir haben den „Code of Conduct Demokratische KI“ mitgezeichnet: Er ist eine Selbstverpflichtung für den verantwortungsvollen Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz in der Zivilgesellschaft. Ziel ist ein informierter und reflektierter Umgang mit KI - dazu befähigen wir als medienpädagogische Einrichtung andere User*innen jeglichen Alters.

    Das Projekt wurde von @D64eV initiiert, den kompletten Text und weitere Infos findet ihr unter demokratische-ki.de/

    #ki #CodeOfConduct #Medienkompetenz

  7. A sole developer with a very compelling live demo rounds off the 11 challenges presented: #ecollecting #hackathon is off to a great start, after a reminder of the #codeofconduct
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  8. A sole developer with a very compelling live demo rounds off the 11 challenges presented: #ecollecting #hackathon is off to a great start, after a reminder of the #codeofconduct
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  9. A sole developer with a very compelling live demo rounds off the 11 challenges presented: is off to a great start, after a reminder of the
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  10. A sole developer with a very compelling live demo rounds off the 11 challenges presented: #ecollecting #hackathon is off to a great start, after a reminder of the #codeofconduct
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  11. A sole developer with a very compelling live demo rounds off the 11 challenges presented: #ecollecting #hackathon is off to a great start, after a reminder of the #codeofconduct
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  12. #euronews: #Spotify has been running a series of #recruitment ads for #ICE & said that the ads referring to “dangerous illegals” do not violate their advertising policy. This has prompted more & more subscribers to (further) #boycott the #streaming giant.

    euronews.com/culture/2025/10/2

    For us that does not comply with our #codeofconduct.

    #unplugtrump

  13. I need some help. It’s about… well, a lot, but it’s also about the Ruby community.

    A few days ago Drew DeVault created an issue on Omarchy requesting adding a Code of Conduct. Unsurprisingly, it was heavily downvoted and closed as not planned. Of course, Dave twitted (twat? It seems like it should be an irregular verb) about it: xcancel.com/dhh/status/1971454

    His point is that principle-based short community guidelines are better than detailed CoC like the Contributor Covenant. He specifically highlights “the beautiful replacement that Matz put in place for Ruby when they came for him with this bullshit”: rubyonrails.org/conduct

    BTW, while the guidelines are on the Ruby website (ruby-lang.org/en/conduct/) I don't see them linked anywhere. I could only get to the page through search.

    Anyway… Shortly after Eric S. Raymond expressed an opinion that ‘”Codes of Conduct” have been a disaster’ and called for removing them: xcancel.com/esrtweet/status/19 And if legally required replacing them with basically a single sentence: “If you are more annoying to work with than your contributions justify, you’ll be ejected.”

    Now, here’s where I need some help. My Japanese is really bad. I might’ve misunderstood something. I’d love some input from people who speak Japanese.

    So right after that Shuji Sado wrote a post about how CoCs are bad actually. His twitter bio states these credentials: Open Source guy, Chairman of Open Source Group Japan (opensource.jp), former CEO of OSDN KK (to 2020), ex-VA Linux, Open Source and Galapagos People, Internet Youth Group (partially translated from Japanese). Seems like he’s not a total rando.

    In his post (shujisado.com/2025/09/30/why_c) he tries to convince the reader that CoCs are unnecessary. But he goes about it in a rather peculiar way. First he gives a historic background to CoCs raise in popularity. Particularly citing Debian/Ubuntu and Python where it fixed some real issues and rather effectively. But then he cites two cases where—in his opinion—CoCs were detrimental.

    First is when the whole Rust moderation team resigned because it couldn’t enforce CoC agains members of the Core team. The reason was how the governance was structured. Very simplified, the moderation team was subordinate to the Core team. The lack of independence highlighted conflict of interest and unbalanced power dynamic.

    The second is Ruby Central takeover of rubygems/bundler. This is where I have the most trouble. He seem to agree that the pretext was security concerns but he lumps it in with CoCs arguing that strict, powerful CoCs require complex enforcement bodies and those create same kind of power centres as governance. And that they’re susceptible to political manipulation and hijacking.

    Now, I’m sure Eric Raymond hasn’t had much trouble being a white moustached ESR dude. And Dave is Dave. I’m not sure what Sado’s deal is. He shows how CoC were good actually and his counterexamples are extremely tangential to CoCs themselves but rather highlight governance issues. He talks about effectiveness of Ruby's CoC that lies in its simplicity. But I have to call that into question. Is it really that effective? How come we still have Dave around? Let's look at Ruby's community guidelines.

    > * Participants will be tolerant of opposing views.

    I mean… That's a nice sounding general principle and is probably a good approach when it comes to some inconsequential personal preference (e.g. coffee vs tea, tabs vs spaces) but when the “opposing view” is that a whole group of people should not exist? Are we supposed to tolerate every possible “opposing view”?

    > * Participants must ensure that their language and actions are free of personal attacks and disparaging personal remarks.

    What is “personal”? Is it specifically by name or direct address? Does naming a large group by an unambiguous defining attribute count?

    > * When interpreting the words and actions of others, participants should always assume good intentions.

    Good for whom? Noone sees themselves as a villain.

    > * Behaviour which can be reasonably considered harassment will not be tolerated.

    By whom? In both cases. I see quite a few people consider some community memeber’s actions as harassment. Reasonably, in my view. But also will not be tolerated by whom? Who’s gonna make the final decision and enforce it?

    Sado argues that Ruby CoC relies heavily on community consensus for determining violations, depending on existing project leadership without bureaucratic processes. I see a few glaring shortcoming here. First, what to do when there’s no consensus. Say, in Dave's case there’s a bad split. There are quite a lot of people utterly dissatisfied with his conduct, as there are a lot of supporters of him personally and his ideas (the ones that irk the first group), and also there are a lot of people who’s trying to stay out of it and a large portion of this group do so because they can not afford to lose a job right now. So no formal consensus, not even a simple majority opinion. But also there’s no enforcement to any of this. See, Dave is the leadership in his community. Is there a reasonable expectation that he’s gonna act against himself? I think not.

    But those are also Ruby guidelines. Can we appeal to, say, Matz on the matter?

    Well, this is why this wall of text is here. Matz retwitted Dave (see image). I take it, Matz’s in agreement with Dave. But I’m not sure on what point. Is it just about the beauty of Ruby’s community guidelines? Or is it on the whole package? Some subset of all of the above?

    @matz could you please more explicitly weigh in on Ruby community guidelines? How is it enforced? What is your stance on Dave specifically? Do you think any of the concerns voiced by quite a few community members need to be addressed in any way?

    And while you’re at it, your thoughts on the Ruby Central situation would be interesting to hear, too.

    Update: Sado published an english version of his post: shujisado.org/2025/09/30/why-h

    In the Ruby Central section he says: the ongoing RubyGems incident–the very trigger for this debate–may illustrate how the discourse of governance, including CoC, can be abused as a “tool for seizing power.”

    So basically, you can't have a strong CoC because it can be weaponised against the community. TBH, I don't buy it. For one, neither Rails’, nor Ruby’s simple principle-based CoCs, not even Ruby Central’s more detailed CoC had absolutely any effect on certain Dave's standing. You can't have it both ways. Yes, there's no perfect solution, but Rails/Ruby clearly shows that simpler CoC is not inherently superior to Contributor Covenant. I mean, no matter what CoC you have you have to enforce it. And good if you exercise some judgment while you do.

    #Ruby #RubyCentral #CodeOfConduct #CoC

  14. I've just signed the open letter to the #Rails Core team and #Ruby community about cutting the ties to DHH and adopting a modern #codeOfConduct.

    github.com/Plan-Vert/open-lett

  15. A pre-defined code of conduct enforcement process doesn’t make the work easy, but it reduces the strain and increases fairness.

    https://duckalignment.academy/code-conduct-enforcement-planning/

  16. Kiedy stróże prawa są skorumpowani, przestępcy biegają na wolności, a prawo jest wykorzystywane, by prześladować ludzi w imię osobistych niechęci. Dlatego nie chcemy, by przestępcy byli stróżami prawa.

    Kiedy ludzie odpowiedzialni za pilnowanie przestrzegania "#CodeOfConduct" w projekcie są skorumpowani, prawdziwie toksyczni ludzie bawią się w najlepsze, a inni prześladowani są przy jego pomocy w imię osobistych niechęci. Dlaczego więc przyklaskujemy projektom, które adoptują CoC, ale nie dążą do tego, by jego przestrzegania pilnowały osoby niezależne?

    #WolneOprogramowanie

  17. When the law enforcement is corrupt, the criminals roam free and the law is used to pursue people over personal dislikes. We really want the criminals out of law enforcement.

    When the #CodeOfConduct enforcement is corrupt, the truly toxic people roam free and the rules are used to bully people over personal dislikes. Why do we applaud projects for adopting a CoC if they are not pursuing independent judgement?

    #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

  18. @appassionato
    This is all backfiring badly on Australian Jewish communities. It's almost as if they WANT to stir up hostility & conflict.
    #AusPol
    #CodeOfConduct
    #antisemitism

  19. @DropBear
    2/
    Part of the MSO’s defence is that Gillham was bound by its code of conduct, which enabled it to control what he could say — and it hadn’t wanted him to say that.

    #MSO
    #CodeOfConduct

  20. @DropBear

    BTW:
    Concert pianist Jayson Gillham is currently suing the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for cancelling his show after he declared during a recital a statement regarding Israel’s targeted killings of journalists in Gaza (180 at last count). He was introducing a piece, Connor D’Netto’s “Witness”, the composer of which had dedicated it to those journalists.
    1/
    crikey.com.au/2025/08/18/bendi

    #Australia
    #MSO
    #CodeOfConduct

  21. Many people that I know personally have unfollowed me on Instagram while I was still following them. To me, this is Betrayal. If you unfollow someone on any social media, then make sure that you also remove that person from your followers list.

    #mastodon #socialmedia #ethics #moral #psychology #trust #philosophy #moralcode #codeofconduct #thought #pointofview #opinion #view #insights #reflection #observations #fedithought #fediopinion #fediverse #fediquote #quote #sayings #instagram #meta

  22. Werkzeuge wie Gemini schreiben mittlerweile echt bessere Alt-Texte als der typische sehende Mensch. Zudem bei wesentlich geringerem Zeitaufwand.

    Ist die #AltPolicy hier im #Fediverse wirklich noch richtig? Fördert sie wirklich noch #Inklusion, oder sind Aufforderungen #AltTexte, #Bildbeschreibungen zu schreiben, inzwischen eher kontraproduktiv für die Akzeptanz von Fediverse und Inklusion?

    #Policy #Regeln #CodeOfConduct #Gedanken

  23. Controversial video posted online embroils two NSW nurses over alleged antisemitism: abc.net.au/news/2025-02-12/nsw

    A great reminder about the value of the Hippocratic-esque oaths and value statements that reflect ‘Universal human rights’, in the health system.

    And a disappointing lack of charismatic leadership from Political and Administrative leaders.
    It’s easy to express ‘disgust, horror, shock, etc’. Somehow it’s ‘hard’ for leaders to talk about universal rights and why it matters.
    #AusPol #AusLaw #AusGov #NSWPol #NSWLaw #NSWGov #CodeOfConduct #Professionalism #Ethics #Philosophy

  24. weird that some people thinks this is the right attitude for a opensource project.

    probably this is someone that would be offended if this was said about Nazis and would cry about bad CoC.

    github.com/actionless/pikaur/c

    #ArchLinux
    #OpenSource
    #commie
    #CodeOfConduct

  25. #IzzyOnDroid adopted the Contributor Covenant (see contributor-covenant.org/). So while in the past we suggested you to add our badge or shield to your Readmes when your app became available at the #IzzyOnDroid repo, now it's time for us to adopt a shield. The first of our repositories already have it in their Readmes, the others will follow soon, so you can easily find it: codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/.prof

    #codeOfConduct #contributorCovenant

  26. #SouthChinaSea: The Limits of Quiet #Diplomacy
    "For decades, #Malaysia along w #ASEAN has been quietly engaging #China on its #claims to almost all of SCS; the results hv not been encouraging. #Negotiations just to estab a #CodeofConduct, for eg, hv #dragged on & on. #PRC has used every #trick in e book to #stall meaningful progress.. PRC poured billions into #militarising e islands & shoals in SCS, building a powerful #coastguard & #weaponizing its #fishingfleet" #Asia
    dennisignatius.com/2024/09/21/

  27. “Every other federal judge is bound by an #enforceable #CodeOfConduct, & there is no reason for the Supreme Court to be exempt.

    “All 3 of these reforms are supported by a majority of Americans — as well as #conservative & #liberal constitutional scholars. And I want to thank the bipartisan Presidential Commission on the #SupremeCourt of the #UnitedStates for its insightful analysis, which informed some of these proposals.

    #SCOTUS #law

  28. “I support a system in which the president would appoint a justice every 2 yrs to spend 18 yrs in active service on the #SupremeCourt.

    “3rd, I’m calling for a binding #CodeOfConduct for the Supreme Court. This is common sense. The court’s current #voluntary #ethics code is weak & #SelfEnforced. Justices should be required to disclose gifts, refrain from public political activity & recuse themselves from cases in which they or their spouses have financial or other #ConflictsOfInterest.

    #SCOTUS

  29. Durbin: "The #Senate #Judiciary Committee's ongoing investigation into the #SupremeCourt's ethical crisis is producing new information... & makes it crystal clear that the highest court needs an #enforceable #CodeOfConduct, bc its members continue to choose not to meet the moment"

    #SCOTUS #law #ethics

  30. If I manage to find a way to #blog about #tech on the #fediverse, one of my first articles - if not the first - would be an article about symbolic #codeofconduct moderators.

    In essence, on Discord, Matrix and other places, a token CoC is performatively provided with no intention to uphold it.

    There are plenty of #brogrammers who get to run wild with an entourage of ablists in various chats, a gaggle of nihilistic elitists, flaunting their superiority complex.

    youtu.be/xjTdroiDCtc

  31. If I manage to find a way to #blog about #tech on the #fediverse, one of my first articles - if not the first - would be an article about symbolic #codeofconduct moderators.

    In essence, on Discord, Matrix and other places, a token CoC is performatively provided with no intention to uphold it.

    There are plenty of #brogrammers who get to run wild with an entourage of ablists in various chats, a gaggle of nihilistic elitists, flaunting their superiority complex.

    youtu.be/xjTdroiDCtc

  32. If I manage to find a way to #blog about #tech on the #fediverse, one of my first articles - if not the first - would be an article about symbolic #codeofconduct moderators.

    In essence, on Discord, Matrix and other places, a token CoC is performatively provided with no intention to uphold it.

    There are plenty of #brogrammers who get to run wild with an entourage of ablists in various chats, a gaggle of nihilistic elitists, flaunting their superiority complex.

    youtu.be/xjTdroiDCtc

  33. If I manage to find a way to #blog about #tech on the #fediverse, one of my first articles - if not the first - would be an article about symbolic #codeofconduct moderators.

    In essence, on Discord, Matrix and other places, a token CoC is performatively provided with no intention to uphold it.

    There are plenty of #brogrammers who get to run wild with an entourage of ablists in various chats, a gaggle of nihilistic elitists, flaunting their superiority complex.

    youtu.be/xjTdroiDCtc

  34. Das Chaosdorf ist spätestens seit dem Umzug vor 3 Jahren ein größerer Ort mit viel mehr Menschen geworden. Das ist eine schöne Entwicklung, kann aber auch dazu führen, dass sich einige von euch manchmal verloren fühlen. Um dies zu verbessern, möchten wir euch heute das neu gewählte Awareness-Team vorstellen.

    Bei der Mitglieder*innen-Versammlung am vergangen Samstag haben sich die Wesen des Chaosdorfes einstimmig für die Gründung eines Awareness-Teams und die Erstellung eines Code of Conducts entschieden. So soll euch eine gewisse Garantie dafür gegeben werden, im Falle einer Belästigung oder anderer Konfliktlagen Hilfe zu bekommen.

    Das neue Team besteht aus 3 Personen,
    von links nach rechts auf dem Foto:
    nomaster, magluz und nachtjasmin

      Wir haben bereits mit der Erstellung des Code of Conduct angefangen und arbeiten derzeit die Details aus. Kontaktdaten und mehr Infos zu unserem Team findet ihr auf der Wiki-Seite Awareness-Team.

      Chaotische Grüße,

      die 3 Ausrufezeichen (das neu gewählte Awareness-Team)

      https://chaosdorf.de/2023/11/awareness-team-gewaehlt/

      #AwarenessTeam #CodeOfConduct #MV

    • @marcelias American Bar Association: Founded in 1878.

      Federalist Society: Founded in 1982.

      Federalist Society's ex-(vice) president Leonard Leo put 5 of 6 biased con-servative/illiberal majority justices on the bench.
      Time to regulate & contain the partisan influence of Leonard Leo & the Federalist Society, for the sake of Americans' democracy, human & civil rights.

      #RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #CleanSCOTUS #TermLimits #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUS_OIG #ExpandSCOTUS #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateOpusDei #DarkMoney #Corruption #Bribery #JudicialInsurrection #SeparationOfPowers #SeparationOfChurchAndState

    • Supreme Court justices are humans, not saints or a club of messiahs.

      They deserve to be treated accordingly - because no one is above the law, and equal justice mustn't be a hollow phrase.

      Keep demanding an ethics code for SCOTUS in public discourse! Keep up the pressure!

      forbes.com/sites/willskipworth
      #RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #CodeOfConduct #EthicsCode #SCOTUS_OIG #Corruption #Bribery #HighCrimesAndMisdemeanor

    • @opethminded My preference would be ABA, to kind of preserve the separation of powers.
      And creating an oversight institution to oversee the oversight office would create an endless bureaucratic monster.

      Independently choose the appropriate independent overseers & Thomas-like excessive corruption should soon be history — after bringing corrupt justices to justice.😉

      #RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #CleanSCOTUS #CodeOfConduct

    • @opethminded 😎 To be instituted #SCOTUS_OIG #SCOTUSInspectorGeneral, following the long-established example of other government agencies/ departments / authorities.
      We'll certainly agree, that an ethics-monitoring & -enforcing authority is needed to put an end to potentially corrupt activities like those reported on concerning Thomas, Roberts, Alito et al.

      #CleanSCOTUS #CodeOfConduct #EthicsIntroduction #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #Corruption #Bribery #Bias