Hi Thorsten, :-)

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 03:07, Thorsten Behrens
<t...@documentfoundation.org> wrote:
> Hi David, all,
>
> there's a fine line here, and somewhat of a difference e.g. between
> US- and european countries, when it comes to the aforementioned
> points.  We've made it a rule in TDF, to not prematurely
> over-regulate - so I'd generally be in favour of using common sense,
> instead of blacklisting topics (which is not gonna cover all future
> cases anyway). On that grounds, what about staying with the sentence
> before (which is a whitelist, and thus inherently much more positive
> in tone):
>
> "Every Member is expected to deal with other Community Members and
>  with our end users with courtesy, forbearance, objectivity,
>  open-mindedness, friendliness, understanding, patience and
>  goodwill."
>
> and striking the contentious sentence for the while? Do you see any
> of the blacklisted topics not covered by the positive statement?
>
> Cheers,

Charles has stated that the community bylaws are to be considered to
be in force now, and that any further changes must be made by the
BoD... I no longer have a green light to edit them... Sorry about
this...

David Nelson

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