[UbuntuWomen] [Bug 272826] Re: "Ubuntero" inappropriate for female contributors

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On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Matthew East <matthew.east at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark at canonical.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think the "Ubuntero" designation is given to people who've signed the
>> Ubuntu Code of Conduct  in LP. There have been some suggestions, with
>> the number of upstreams adopting LP (and other distros) that we should
>> move to a General Code of Conduct which is more relevant for a broad
>> cross-section of communities. Membership in Ubuntu-related teams is
>> already conveyed through the use of team badges on a person's page. What
>> do folks think of that idea?

A general COC, signing of which is not a prerequisite for
participation in a community sounds ok.
Having said that, it would be interesting to see how to implement a
COC encompassing different projects without spelling out an _exit
policy_. Currently the COC lays guidelines for members but in case of
abuse, the only recourse is escalating issues to the CC, which besides
being stressful (in certain cases in the past) is also time consuming.


> The "Ubuntero" status has a specific usefulness. It is extremely
> useful to be able to see whether an individual has signed the Ubuntu
> code of conduct in Launchpad, because many teams require that as a
> prior condition for membership (such as ubuntumembers, and any number
> of other community teams). I agree that it is inapplicable to
> Launchpad members who do not participate in Ubuntu, and therefore it
> could probably be implemented in a different way, although I can't
> immediately think of a good one.

Making signing mandatory for participation without (see above
regarding exit policy) ensuring its true spirit defeats the purpose in
a way. Currently there is no way of knowing if someone blindly signs
it to get the Ubuntu membership status nor track if they do follow the
COC in letter and spirit. Maybe this discussion needs a separate
thread !!

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