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Re: What does it mean to be inclusive



Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> writes:

> 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.

AFAIK we average about an expulsion a decade, so how much higher a bar
do you want to set for expulsions?

BTW I would interpret this mail of yours as pointlessly argumentative,
which strikes me as a continuation of the pattern that others have
pointed out. Please give it a rest now.

Cheers, Phil.
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