On 2014-11-13, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can we create an environment... where character matters, hard work is > respected, humility is valued, and support for one another is > unconditional?
Yes, I think you can, although I think formulating a code of conduct is mostly a distraction. People take their cues from others who are perceived to be socially superior, so the key is to get anybody who has a lot of visibility / brownie points / respect / whatever to get on the bandwagon. Whatever those people practice, is going to become the conventional way, so we had better hope they have good habits. About good habits, I think it's really pretty simple: * talk about ideas instead of people * don't feed the trolls * get to the point But if someone like, oh, I don't know, Linus Torvalds for instance, consistently treats others like shit, everybody else joins the fun, and everything goes downhill from there. As I get older, I've become fascinated by the way that people pick up culture (i.e., shared assumptions about how things work) from each other, in all kinds of situations. I'm pretty sure that informal cues vastly outweigh the formal ones, for better or worse. For what it's worth, Robert Dodier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
