[IAEP] Sugar Labs Individual Membership

[Morgan Collett]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 14:22, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> Chris Ball wrote:
>>> Most project have some sort of agreement.
>>
>> Citation?  Many of the largest free software projects in existence
>> have no such thing -- GNOME, Ubuntu, the Linux kernel -- and each
>> has widespread ties with all kinds of businesses.
>
> Ubuntu has the Code of Conduit, which you must sign with your
> PGP key to become a Ubuntero:

*Conduct...

>   https://launchpad.net/codeofconduct/1.0.1
>
>
> This is not to say we should imitate them, although the UCoC is the most
> reasonable agreement I've ever seen, as it doesn't even *try* to look like
> the legal nonsense I've seen elsewhere.
>
> Healthy communities and volunteer-driven organizations are based on
> personal trust and not on prosecution of those who breach legal
> agreements.  Beware of those who tell you otherwise: they might be lawyers
> in disguise!
>
> That said, I wouldn't mind if we had a wiki page with something similar to
> the UCoC and we asked members to *informally* agree to it in a non legally
> binding way.

GNOME has a simple code of conduct, and individuals can voluntarily
sign it: http://live.gnome.org/CodeOfConduct/Signatures (links to
their code of conduct).

Regards
Morgan