An Open Letter to the Open Source Community

[David Gerard]

Arwyn Hainsworth wrote:

>1) Amend the Code of Conduct with stricter wording, reminding people
>that this is a multi-racial, multi-sex community and that we should
>keep that in mind at all times.


I suggest this is a bad idea - the CoC is hardly unclear in this
regard, and adding more rules is unlikely to solve the problem of
people not taking notice of the first set of rules.

What appears to be lacking is for people to take the CoC seriously in
the first place.


- d.