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[Rouben <rouben AT rouben.net>]

After trying to keep up with the recent threads and votes around what is, essentially, conduct, I kept thinking: why doesn’t OpenNIC have a code of conduct? IMO rather than introduce reactive policy proposals, wouldn’t it be best to have a code of conduct instead, and perhaps even a formal statement of purpose?

Here’s a few examples from high profile open source projects:

https://www.ubuntu.com/community/code-of-conduct

https://www.debian.org/code_of_conduct

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Code_of_conduct

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/Code_of_conduct

I rather like the Ubuntu one, because it is an example of an organization with a relatively mature governance structure.

The Arch code of conduct is probably the most practical with lots of details on a number of etiquette points, like quoting posts and bumping old threads.

Gentoo’s is an example of a “short and to the point” style, with pretty much two sections: acceptable and unacceptable behaviours.

Just thinking out loud here...

Rouben

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Rouben