On Wednesday, November 26, 2014 2:41:32 PM UTC, vdelecroix wrote: > > I would have started any official text by "Anybody > is welcome to contribute" or something like that.
That sounds like a mission statement, not like a code of conduct. Really, much of the 2-week discussion was just cultural confusion about what a code of conduct is. Mostly from the non-Americans who have never seen such a thing. And I understand your culture shock in that regard. On the other side were people that are quite familiar with codes of conducts in other organizations and were just as rightfully confused that we can't even agree on being nice to each other. Also, during the lengthy discussion there were very few concrete actionable suggestions for changes. You were one of the few honorable exceptions when you put the text on the wiki to make changes. But so far there has only been one edit by yourself, so I think its fair to say that this did not gather much momentum. Still I would be happy if people can come up with relevant changes, but please keep it on the topic of a code of conduct. Even Volker was not able to > vote because of his teaching. > I could have voted, but I didn't. Mostly because I think that the whole discussion was more useful than a text tucked away on the web page when it comes to reminding everyone to stay civil. So I would have counted either outcome as a win... You can not state "be nice" as an order. The only thing which makes > sense is to say "welcome". Then why is it called Kant's categorial imperative, should we rephrase it as Kant's categorial suggestion? Its just an English language thing. If you want to argue about it please include other codes of conduct and explain why they are wrong, too. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
