On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 02:28:58PM +0100, Francesca Ciceri wrote: > But I'd also like to have some inputs from you all, on it. Since one of my responsibilities in Debian is to actually discriminate people, I feel like I should contribute :) I like your idea. Such a statement is IMO a direct consequence of defining ourselves a "universal operating system", and of having DFSG5 and DFSG6 in our Social Contract; but it's good that we spell it out. I also like the draft, and I'd happily accept it as it is. This is the extra input I can give: > The Debian Project welcomes and encourages participation by everyone. > We are committed to being a community that everyone feels good about > joining. Although we may not be able to satisty everyone, we will always > work to treat everyone well. > Whenever any participant has made a mistake, we expect them to take > responsibility for it. If someone has been harmed or offended, it is our > responsibility to listen carefully and respectfully, and do our best to > right the wrong. I can think of another thing that we care about, which I don't see mentioned here: "We expect people to be constructive members of the community." That is something that we have learnt to pay attention to, over the years. > Although this list cannot be exhaustive, we explicitly honour diversity > in age, culture, ethnicity, genotype, gender identity or expression, > language, national origin, neurotype, phenotype, political beliefs, > profession, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, > subculture and technical ability. I could see elsewhere in this thread how detailed lists are a fantastic bikeshedding magnet; I wish I had an idea on how to get away with a list and just say "what part of universal do you not get?". But I don't have any good idea to offer, and that list does the job. I fully agree with Russ at http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/03/msg00054.html and I wonder if it's just enough to replace "technical ability" with "skillset, and field of expertise". Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 4096R/E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org>
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