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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 > > >