On Fri, 26 Apr 2024, 12:01 JC Brand, <lists@opkode.com> wrote:

FWIW, I don't think coming up with ever more fine-grained categorization of what constitutes marginalized persons and putting that in the CoC is the right way to go.
One can always come up with more categories of marginalized people, and trying to enumerate all of them in a CoC is IMO impractical

+1

To section 2.5 ("Be friendly and supportive"), I would like to add after the 
first paragraph:

This includes being mindful of the abilities of others; nobody is born an 
expert in anything and we all had to learn at some point. Be supportive of 
newcomers and learners. Do not be patronizing or condescending.

I agree and support adding this paragraph.

I like the first and third sentences. The second sentence implies a onus that one shouldn't remain silent when a learner asks a question. Given the volume of unpaid volunteers, I believe that not being actively supportive whilst also not being actively condescending either, by saying nothing at all, is perfectly acceptable. I'd like to reword this to make that clear.

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Dan / Fishbowler