Thanks everyone for providing the documents and context for this
conversation. I'm the current coordinator of the Community Support Squad
and I merged Ben's PR this morning as a few people reviewed it and no one
objected. It makes perfect sense given the rest of the CoC.

I believe Eric's original statement about a draft might be due to the
repo's readme: "This is a repository to provide a space to draft and allow
for dialog in the creation of an anti-harassment policy for the Code4lib
annual conference, mailing list, and other Code4Lib channels." We could
amend that to remove the verb "draft". I must admit I've ignored the
readme; it should definitely link to the change procedures, too.

Best,
Eric


On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 12:21 PM Benjamin Armintor <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> I encourage us all to make a good-faith read of this text:
>
> "Code4Lib seeks to provide a welcoming, professionally engaging, fun, and
> safe conference (and ongoing community) experience for everyone. We do not
> tolerate harassment in any form. Discriminatory language and imagery,
> including sexual or sexualized language and imagery, is not appropriate for
> any event venue, including talks, or any community channel such as the
> chatroom or mailing list.
>
> Harassment is understood as any behavior that threatens or demeans another
> person or group, or that produces an unsafe environment. It includes
> offensive verbal comments or non-verbal expressions related to gender,
> gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, disability,
> physical appearance, body size, race, age, religious or political beliefs;
> sexual, sexualized, or discriminatory images in public (including online)
> spaces; deliberate intimidation, stalking, or following; harassing
> photography or recording; sustained disruption of talks or other events;
> inappropriate physical contact; and unwelcome sexual attention."
>
> ... such that it intends "religious or political beliefs" to make clear
> that neither politics nor religion excuse harassment in our community, and
> is not trying to create an ethnicity loophole by referring to race as one
> of the subjects of harassment. I don't think there is any reason to suspect
> antisemitism is acceptable to the community, and I am confident that the
> CSS would treat a report of antisemitic harrassment as seriously as they
> would any other.
>
> However, if you've felt that the text should clarify these points, others
> may as well! I've opened a change request:
> https://github.com/code4lib/code-of-conduct/pull/91 following the
> contribution instructions at https://github.com/code4lib/code-of-conduct.
> It suggests two amendments to the text:
> 1. Updating the second sentence of the second paragraph to begin with "It
> includes, but is not limited to,"
> 2. Adding ethnicity to the enumerated examples of subjects of harassment
>
> - Ben
>
> On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 2:50 PM Tim Spalding <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Certainly interesting to see a CoC that prohibits offensive comments
> about
> > political beliefs but neglects to include ethnicity. Combined with the
> > oddly limited "religious beliefs" (as opposed to the more standard and
> > open-ended "religion"), I wonder how one would go about reporting most
> > antisemitism.
> >
> > T
> >
> > On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 2:32 PM Tom Johnson <
> > [log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > i think it would be fantastic if the existing links from the About page
> > > were made more prominent and/or updated to emphasize that this is an
> > > authoritative document.
> > >
> > > i admit to not understanding the question about "draft" vs "official",
> or
> > > the scare quotes. i think we should avoid undermining the status of
> this
> > > long standing and painstakingly maintained piece of community
> > > infrastructure.
> > >
> > > - tamsin
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, May 14, 2021, 11:14 AM Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On May 14, 2021, at 2:02 PM, Mark A. Matienzo <
> [log in to unmask]
> > >
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >> Do Code4Lib have an official Code of Conduct statement, not a
> draft.
> > > And
> > > > >> if so, then what is its URL? --Eric Morgan
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes:
> > > > >
> > >
> https://github.com/code4lib/code-of-conduct/blob/main/code_of_conduct.md
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Mark A. Matienzo
> > > > > PO Box 80831
> > > > > Unceded Duwamish Lands / Seattle, WA 98108
> > > > > https://matienzo.org/
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thank you for the prompt reply. I saw/found that. Again thank you. Is
> > it
> > > > "official" or a draft? If it is "official", then I suggest it be made
> > > more
> > > > apparent somewhere under https://code4lib.org. Otherwise, how is a
> > > person
> > > > suppose to know where to find/get canonical Code4Lib information?
> > --Eric
> > > > Morgan
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Check out my library at http://www.librarything.com/profile/timspalding
> >
>