I wholeheartedly support the measure to change the language and more explicitly state that behavior in discordance with the Django code of conduct outside the walls of Django events can affect participation within the walls of Django events. The community itself spans both spaces, and you cannot effectively create a safe space for community members during the week of DjangoCon while ignoring behavior at all other times.
As for the code of conduct containing affirmative rules that lay out behavior that attendees should follow, I am also in support of that. I look forward to the PR that contains the rules and guidelines detailing recommended conference behavior. Many of the counterarguments do not address the change at hand but the code of conduct as a whole and call for an objective application of these rules to community members. Objectivity for a set of rules regarding humans is a tall order. Even the law recognizes its lack of objectivity and has in place checks and balances; the Constitution is a great document in part because it lays forth a set of somewhat ambiguous guidelines that are open to interpretation in their application. Objectivity is not the goal with the code of conduct; the goal is to create rules that help others understand how to make our community a safe space for all people. If you are concerned with how the code of conduct is enforced, you should open a thread to discuss the checks and balances the Django community puts in place when reviewing code of conduct violations. On Saturday, September 6, 2014 9:10:42 PM UTC-4, Kevin Daum wrote: > > I have submitted two pull requests for the code of conduct: > > - #84 <https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/84>, to let > folks who belong to a wide variety of social identities know that yes, > even > they are welcome here, and > - #86 <https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/86>, to make > explicit the currently implicit policy that someone's abusive behavior > outside the django community *may* have an adverse effect on their > ability to participate within the django community. > > I welcome your feedback. > > Thanks, > Kevin Daum > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/6f3184fc-1d36-4b47-8e67-9b30998edab7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
