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Re: What does it mean to be inclusive



Hi,

On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 7:28 AM Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> wrote:
>
> In my model, the bar for excluding an individual, particularly at the
> beginning is very low.
>
> * We expect people to agree to the social contract.
> That's a big exclusion; a lot of people don't care about those
> principles.
>
> * We require people to agree to the CoC; that's another big bar.
>
> * At various levels of involvement  we work to confirm people are
>   willing to follow these things to various degrees.
>
> In effect, we have a bunch of exclusions for making the community more
> welcoming, because over all in aggregate doing that creates a more
> inclusive community.

A community with a low bar for expulsion is not inclusive. It is selective.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner


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