26 Apr
2024
26 Apr
'24
7:05 a.m.
Hi Dan,
On Freitag, 26. April 2024 13:40:50 CEST Dan Caseley wrote:
Thank you. This is a valid point and I wouldn't want anyone to have the
impression that they are obligated to help anyone. If you have a concrete
proposal for a wording, I'd be curious to hear it (while keeping the
"positive" form of supportiveness. I'd like to add more positive examples to
the CoC so that it's not just "don't do this", but also "do
this").
kind regards,
Jonas
On Fri, 26 Apr 2024, 12:01 JC Brand,
<lists(a)opkode.com> wrote:
I will reply to this particular point in the other thread.
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.