Charlie
In the spirit of the Japanese tradition of O-souji we want to do a big clean before the end of the calendar year. Within that housekeeping, one thing our community has not had before is a set of guidelines, so we decided to tidy that up and create some!
The current draft is copy/pasted below and at this Google Doc link
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bpFGRmtWVe8GoBKKH4wiuoM3uEBBDNfLzaYVzn20Ags/edit?usp=sharing
The Doc also has guidelines from other communities to use as models.
** Peeragogy Project Community Guidelines - Draft **
Please treat our community as you would a river that sustains bountiful aquatic and plant ecosystems plus water for additional living beings. This community is also a shared resource helping us all learn from one another and produce beautiful creations together. Like a river, these guidelines are living and will likely change over time as the community evolves.
1. We want to be a welcoming place for a diverse group of people from different backgrounds, genders, countries, cultures, beliefs, and additional traits.
2. Newcomers should be easily able to jump into the project and start contributing using tools and methods that are familiar to them. You don’t have to read the whole handbook to contribute valuable material. For guidance, please peruse the Quickstart Guide and/or reach out to someone.
3. We aim for our contributions to make it easier for others to access and contribute, rather than more difficult! Ask: “How am I learning from this interaction?”
4. Try to organize your contributions into clear and comprehensible text, or whatever format is relevant to the issue you’re commenting on.
5. If someone says or does something confusing, assume good faith (whenever this is warranted) and acknowledge the state of confusion. Ask questions that can improve everyone’s understanding.
6. It is not necessary for everyone to be part of every conversation: open side channels as appropriate, and report back when that’s useful. Keep in mind that not everyone is going to have time to learn everything or dive into everything at a deep level.
7. ‘Challenging’ is OK, but personal attacks are not OK. Attacks make it harder to learn anything. Remember the other person is a living being with feelings.
8. All contributors to the Handbook will need to sign the CC Zero Waiver, read the Style Guide, and embrace these guidelines.
Joe Corneli
Please treat our community as you would a river that sustains bountiful aquatic and plant ecosystems plus water for additional living beings. This community is also a shared resource helping us all learn from one another and produce beautiful creations together. Like a river, these guidelines are living and will likely change over time as the community evolves.
(1) Review the intention: what do we expect to learn or make together?
We intend to make a thriving community. How does this work?
(2) Establish what is happening: what and how are we learning?
Some of us drafted guidelines and we are sharing that with the common mailing list, hoping to improve them collectively into something we all accept.
(3) What are some different perspectives on what’s happening?
This is part of a seasonal housecleaning. I would like to add another Japanese concept I just learned about,
We are trying to record the basic truths we have learned when working together. We expect there is something universal about them.
(4) What did we learn or change?
We are learning what people here think of the guidelines, and will have something we can bring forward into other groups we work with.
(5) What else should we change going forward?
I like having a housecleaning tradition. Let’s keep improving the guidelines for a while.