On 25/03/2017 13:52, martin f krafft wrote: > Dear Mehdi, > > among your priorities for your next term, should you get elected, is > "Ensuring the community remains safe and fun". Yet, I cannot find > much about that in your platform. > > Could you elaborate how you're intending to ensure a safe and fun > community? >
Last year, I had to find new volunteers for the Anti-Harrassment team. Since then, I pinged the team regularly (by mail or by discussing over IRC with some of its members) to make sure someone is dealing with mails. I also tried to encourage press, anti-harassment and DAM teams to work together whenever an issue comes up. I believe they should work tightly together because they can have complementary roles in the same problem and synchronization between them is quite important. We have discussed with A.H. team about the idea of making a short report about current issues and how the team dealt with them. This could be a way to: a) inform project members regularly that they are active and working on issues raised by individuals; b) be transparent about issues Debian's community might be facing. Of course, the report would only mention the nature of the problems and solutions brought by the team. It must not disclose private information. Unfortunately, we did not make much progress on this report, but I am convinced this is something we need. And I really want to make this happen. About Code of Conduct, I think it can be enhanced in two simple ways: 1) make consequences of misbehavior more explicit. We are really not only talking about banning members from mailing-lists, but persistent offenders can be truly banned from the project. 2) List contacts directly in the code of conduct and do not link to the organization page. The information about whom to contact in case of issues should be easy to find and we should force readers to go through a long list of teams. The fun side is related to safety. People gather often to work together. We should encourage them to meet and socialize. Encouraging more meetups is a way. We should ask every team to try to organize a sprint. Make it regular. In order to keep such events safe, we must remind attendees about the values that are important to our community (which are well described in our CoC and our diversity statement) and tell them which team to contact in case of problems. -- Mehdi
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