+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. -- Peter Murray Assistant Director, Technology Services Development LYRASIS [log in to unmask] +1 678-235-2955 1438 West Peachtree Street NW Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Toll Free: 800.999.8558 Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org LYRASIS: Great Libraries. Strong Communities. Innovative Answers.