+1 to Bess for raising the topic -- I'm onboard. 

Jon's point is an important one.  Code4Lib does not have a formal structure, owner, or convening body.  Any power in the Code4Lib community is directly proportional to the collective will of the members of this community.  Therefore I think it is important to have a way for community members to register an endorsement of the policy/code-of-conduct.  That will be how the local meeting hosts and the IRC channel ops and the mailing list owners (all volunteers) are empowered to take action.

Here are a couple of ways to do it, along with some advantages and disadvantages:

 * Registering names on a wiki page:
   + Low overhead, account infrastructure not required
   - Subject to vandalism and false signatures

 * Sign by forking the GitHub repo:
   + Good for version control (a particular version is signed)
   + Fork appearing on GitHub repo list keeps commitment in the forefront of signer's mind
   - Requiring signers to have a GitHub account may not be realistic

 * Create a lightweight signing app on Code4Lib.org
   + Lighter weight account registration requirement than GitHub
   - Requires someone to create app
   - Signers must sign up for a code4lib.org account; overhead for code4lib.org administrators


Peter


On Nov 26, 2012, at 7:15 PM, Jon Stroop <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The responses to the list in the past couple of hours alone suggest that
> this is something much of the community would want to get behind. To
> that end, and as a show of (positive) force--not to mention how cool our
> community is--I think it might be neat if we could find a way to make
> whatever winds up being drafted something we can sign; i.e. attach our
> personal names. I don't know how that would work exactly...maybe via the
> wiki (where it seems to me a lot of good info goes to die) or the
> code4lib Github (slightly better since you could link to your
> credentials in a an environment much larger than our own, and everyone
> could have a copy), but something along those lines. I'm happy to help
> if I can.



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