[IAEP] Code of Conduct Motion to add Anti-harassment policy - Sugar Labs

[Laura Vargas]

2017-09-27 13:03 GMT-05:00 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>:

> FWIW, the current Sugar Labs code of conduct is available in the wiki here:
>
> https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Legal/Code_of_Conduct
>
> And translated into Spanish here:
>
> http://co.sugarlabs.org/go/C%C3%B3digo_de_Conducta
>

Spanish link is broke.


>
> @Laura, maybe you could explain why you think the current code of conduct
> is insufficient as regards harassment?
>
> regards.
>
> -walter
>
>
I think current Code of Conduct is insufficient because there is no
procedure to follow in case of Harassment.

Sugar Labs Code of Conduct currently states:

" The Oversight Board will arbitrate in any dispute over the conduct of a
member of the community."

So, what happens in case of Harassment?

Harassment is not a dispute.

The Anti-harassment Policy proposed clearly defines what Community shall
understand as Harassment and what Community member can do about it if
he/she finds in such situation.

Sugar Labs needs to be a place where anyone can speak freely, without fear.

To include a Diversity statement
<https://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/diversity> would also help
encourage participation by everyone.


Regards,

Laura V


> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Laura Vargas <laura at somosazucar.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello all, Hola a todos,
>>
>> [Thanks in advance to volunteer translators of this message]
>>
>> I would like to propose a Motion for: "The Sugar Labs Code of Conduct to
>> include the Geek Feminism Community anti-harassment Policy
>> <http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Community_anti-harassment/Policy>
>> and to dispose resources (if needed) for the complete text to be translated
>> to Sugar supported languages. This Policy contemplates the existence of a
>> RESPONSE TEAM and defining a way and procedure to contact them.
>>
>> Hope to hear opinions and feedback from all Sugar Labs members.
>>
>> Hopefully volunteers to integrate the RESPONSE TEAM.
>>
>> According to Geek Feminism
>> <http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Geek_Feminism_Wiki> anti-harassment
>> Policy, harassment includes:
>>
>>    - Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and
>>    expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness,
>>    neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, age, race, or religion.
>>    - Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and
>>    practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and
>>    employment.
>>    - Deliberate misgendering or use of ‘dead’ or rejected names.
>>    - Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behaviour  in spaces where
>>    they’re not appropriate.
>>    - Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, textual
>>    descriptions like “*hug*” or “*backrub*”) without consent or after a
>>    request to stop.
>>    - Threats of violence.
>>    - Incitement of violence towards any individual, including
>>    encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm.
>>    - Deliberate intimidation.
>>    - Stalking or following.
>>    - Harassing photography or recording, including logging online
>>    activity for harassment purposes.
>>    - Sustained disruption of discussion.
>>    - Unwelcome sexual attention.
>>    - Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as
>>    requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others
>>    - Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease.
>>    - Deliberate “outing” of any aspect of a person’s identity without
>>    their consent except as necessary to protect vulnerable people from
>>    intentional abuse.
>>    - Publication of non-harassing private communication.
>>
>> <quote>
>> Anti-harassment policy text Shorter version
>>
>> COMMUNITY NAME is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for
>> everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual
>> orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, age, race, or
>> religion. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.
>>
>> This code of conduct applies to all COMMUNITY NAME spaces, including
>> [list, eg "our mailing lists and IRC channel"], both online and off. Anyone
>> who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from these
>> spaces at the discretion of the RESPONSE TEAM.
>>
>> Some COMMUNITY NAME spaces may have additional rules in place, which will
>> be made clearly available to participants. Participants are responsible for
>> knowing and abiding by these rules.
>> Longer version
>>
>> COMMUNITY NAME is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for
>> everyone. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.
>>
>> This code of conduct applies to all COMMUNITY NAME spaces, including
>> [give a list of your spaces, eg "our mailing lists and IRC channel"], both
>> online and off. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned
>> or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the RESPONSE TEAM.
>>
>> Some COMMUNITY NAME spaces may have additional rules in place, which will
>> be made clearly available to participants. Participants are responsible for
>> knowing and abiding by these rules.
>>
>> Harassment includes:
>>
>>    - Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and
>>    expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness,
>>    neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, age, race, or religion.
>>    - Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and
>>    practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and
>>    employment.
>>    - Deliberate misgendering or use of ‘dead’ or rejected names.
>>    - Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behaviour  in spaces where
>>    they’re not appropriate.
>>    - Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, textual
>>    descriptions like “*hug*” or “*backrub*”) without consent or after a
>>    request to stop.
>>    - Threats of violence.
>>    - Incitement of violence towards any individual, including
>>    encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm.
>>    - Deliberate intimidation.
>>    - Stalking or following.
>>    - Harassing photography or recording, including logging online
>>    activity for harassment purposes.
>>    - Sustained disruption of discussion.
>>    - Unwelcome sexual attention.
>>    - Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as
>>    requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others
>>    - Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease.
>>    - Deliberate “outing” of any aspect of a person’s identity without
>>    their consent except as necessary to protect vulnerable people from
>>    intentional abuse.
>>    - Publication of non-harassing private communication.
>>
>> COMMUNITY NAME prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged
>> people’s comfort. RESPONSE TEAM reserves the right not to act on complaints
>> regarding:
>>
>>    - ‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and
>>    ‘cisphobia’
>>    - Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as “leave me alone,”
>>    “go away,” or “I’m not discussing this with you.”
>>    - Communicating in a ‘tone’ you don’t find congenial
>>    - Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive
>>    behavior or assumptions
>>
>> Reporting
>>
>> If you are being harassed by a member of COMMUNITY NAME, notice that
>> someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact
>> the RESPONSE TEAM at [email address or other contact point]. If the person
>> who is harassing you is on the team, they will recuse themselves from
>> handling your incident. We will respond as promptly as we can.
>>
>> This code of conduct applies to COMMUNITY NAME spaces, but if you are
>> being harassed by a member of COMMUNITY NAME outside our spaces, we still
>> want to know about it. We will take all good-faith reports of harassment by
>> COMMUNITY NAME members, especially LEADERSHIP TEAM, seriously. This
>> includes harassment outside our spaces and harassment that took place at
>> any point in time. The abuse team reserves the right to exclude people from
>> COMMUNITY NAME based on their past behavior, including behavior outside
>> COMMUNITY NAME spaces and behavior towards people who are not in COMMUNITY
>> NAME.
>>
>> In order to protect volunteers from abuse and burnout, we reserve the
>> right to reject any report we believe to have been made in bad faith.
>> Reports intended to silence legitimate criticism may be deleted without
>> response.
>>
>> We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting
>> victims of abuse. At our discretion, we may publicly name a person about
>> whom we’ve received harassment complaints, or privately warn third parties
>> about them, if we believe that doing so will increase the safety of
>> COMMUNITY NAME members or the general public. We will not name harassment
>> victims without their affirmative consent.
>> Consequences
>>
>> Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply
>> immediately.
>>
>> If a participant engages in harassing behavior, RESPONSE TEAM may take
>> any action they deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from all
>> COMMUNITY NAME spaces and identification of the participant as a harasser
>> to other COMMUNITY NAME members or the general public.
>> License and attribution
>>
>> This policy is licensed under the Creative Commons Zero license
>> <http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/> . It is *public
>> domain**, *no credit and no open licencing of your version is required.
>>
>> If you would like to optionally attribute it, you could use the below
>> text and link to http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/
>> wiki/Community_anti-harassment:
>> This anti-harassment policy is based on the example policy from the Geek
>> Feminism wiki, created by the Geek Feminism community.
>>
>> The policy is based on the conference anti-harassment policy
>> <http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassment/Policy>,
>> and is the work of Annalee Flower Horne with assistance from Valerie
>> Aurora, Alex Skud Bayley, Tim Chevalier, and Mary Gardiner.
>>
>> </quote>
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Laura V.
>> * I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org*
>>
>> “Solo la tecnología libre nos hará libres.”
>> ~ L. Victoria
>>
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> Walter Bender
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Laura V.
* I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org*

“Solo la tecnología libre nos hará libres.”
~ L. Victoria

Happy Learning!
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