Codes of Conduct and Censorship in Technical Communities
Over the past several months I’ve been thinking a lot about anti-harassment policies, codes of conduct, when censorship is harmful and when it is appropriate. During this time I’ve seen a number of...
View ArticleStill No Code of Conduct at Mozilla
It’s been nearly four months since events at Mozilla lead several of us to call for adoption of a code of conduct. And yet we do not have one. I can’t tell if progress is stalled, or if we’re just not...
View ArticleTo the Anonymous Mozilla Member Making Threats on My Blog
I’m not going to publish any of your comments, so you might as well stop leaving them. Also, you’ve been reported to Mozilla leadership. I will, however, share this bit with everyone here so they...
View ArticleMozilla Now Has Guidelines for Community Participation
Mitchell Baker announced today on mozilla.governance that Community Participation Guidelines have been posted. While I remain critical of the version that has been put forth (for reasons I don’t have...
View ArticleDeath Threats in Open Source Are not Occurring in a Vacuum
Individuals who make death threats start with less egregious behavior and systematically test the boundaries of the communities in which they exist. When they get away with small violations, they often...
View ArticleThe complex reality of adopting a meaningful code of conduct
A number of prominent, globally distributed open source projects are debating the adoption of a Code of Conduct: Ruby, PHP (rfc, discussion), WordPress. There are probably others. Additionally,...
View ArticleThe (Overdue) Need for Community Conduct Standards at Mozilla
Next week marks my sixth-month anniversary as a Mozilla employee. I have been planning to write a post to mark the occasion and to share with everyone what an awesome (albeit challenging) experience it...
View ArticleOn Accountability
Back in July, someone claiming to be a “Mozilla member” made threatening comments here on my blog, directed towards myself and my colleague Tim Chevalier. I reported the comments immediately to Mozilla...
View ArticleMore thoughts about the neveragain.tech pledge and what you can be doing instead
The neveragain.tech pledge continues to gain traction (if you can call it that) and I continue to analyze why I find it so troubling. For my initial thoughts, see this blog post. A code of ethics or a...
View ArticleAn Analysis of the Fantasyland Learning Code of Professionalism (FCOP)
I have a good amount of experience regarding codes of conduct for open source communities. I am co-author of the Citizen Code of Conduct. I was part of the incident response team for Open Source Bridge...
View ArticleThoughts on recent Drupal governance decisions
(Content warning: This post discusses BDSM and abuse.) [Updated 12:20 PDT 28 March 2017: Corrected spelling errors and added a few clarifications, including the opening notes below.] Note 1: In many...
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