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

[Walter Bender]

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

@Laura, maybe you could explain why you think the current code of conduct
is insufficient as regards harassment?

regards.

-walter


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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