That Code of Conduct

[Elizabeth Krumbach]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Amedee Van Gasse (ub)
<amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
> As soon as you actively participate in one of the mailing lists, you are
> no longer a muggle or a simple user. You have then become a member of the
> community and the CoC applies to you. Or me. And I'm not a dev either.
>
> If you don't want to follow the CoC, you aren't obliged to actively
> participate in the mailing lists.

Right! And the latest revision of the CoC (v 1.1) was released to
downplay the weight placed on "developers" - check out the rationale
doc released with it:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~communitycouncil/ubuntu-codeofconduct/trunk/annotate/head:/rationale.txt

Specifically:

"== Goals with revision 1.1 ==

Our primary goal in this version of the Code of Conduct was to remove
what we saw as an overly technical focus. When the first Code of Conduct
was written, Ubuntu was an entirely technical project. There were no
users, no support systems, and very little in the way of non-technical
contributions from anyone. That has changed. In fact, the vast majority
of the Ubuntu community contributes to the Ubuntu project is ways other
than through writing code and making packages. We want our code to
reflect this and to speak to the reality of the Ubuntu community today."

> There is no such thing as an official membership card of the Ubuntu
> community.

There is Ubuntu Membership:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership

Which is not restricted to technical contributions! This is a myth
we're working hard to dispel with the recent revisions to the
Membership wiki page above, and recent blog entries on the subject:

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=540
http://matthewhelmke.net/2009/12/04/ubuntu-membership-myths-debunked/

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