Fwd: FW: [humanitarian-foss] H-FOSS code of conduct updated to version 1.1
Mark Prutsalis
I believe that the humanitarian principles that Cat highlights and the Public-Private Collaboration standards forwarded from Gisli are important documents and principles to subscribe to - (as well as the Red Cross Code of Conduct itself) - if organizations wish to do so, but I don't want to detract from or water down the "open source" core of the proposed HFOSS code of conduct. Having something particular to our communities is a valuable addition to this lexicon of standards. If there is something specific you believe should be added or referenced in the HFOSS standards, it would be helpful if you could highlight them on the call or via this list.
I'll add these links to the Humanitarian-ICT wiki.
I'd also like to discuss how we can work on the HFOSS Maturity Model and turn that into something not too complex or cumbersome, but still a valuable tool for objective self-assessment.
Let us also please continue to discuss these issues asynchronously on this list for inclusion of those who can not participate in the calls.
Best regards,
Mark
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| Subject: | FW: [humanitarian-foss] H-FOSS code of conduct updated to version 1.1 |
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| Date: | Mon, 18 Oct 2010 06:25:09 -0700 |
| From: | Cat Graham <Peacefu...@humanityroad.org> |
| To: | cham...@opensource.lk <cham...@opensource.lk>, Mark Prutsalis <ma...@sahanafoundation.org> |
| CC: | gis...@live.com <gis...@live.com> |
Developing such a code is a great foundation especially when working in such an international arena and free sharing environment. FYI We are revising our organizations policy to include a preface stating that Humanity Road supports the Humanitarian Principles outlined by the UN http://ochaonline.un.org/whd/ providing it for your reference/consideration.
Humanitarian Principles represent the foundation of humanitarian action. Key humanitarian principles include:
Humanity: Human suffering must be addressed wherever it is found. The purpose of humanitarian action is to protect life and health and ensure respect for human beings.
Neutrality: Humanitarian actors must not take sides in hostilities or engage in controversies of a political, racial, religious or ideological nature.
Impartiality: Humanitarian action must be carried out on the basis of need alone, giving priority to the most urgent cases of distress and making no distinctions on the basis of nationality, race, gender, religious belief, class or political opinion.
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Hi Chamindra,
Not sure if you are familiar with the WEF/OCHA guidelines for public-private collaboration for Humanitarian Action (Principles for Public-Private Collaboration for Humanitarian Action – PDF). It contains some good points about what we need to think about in this space. I know some of the major commercial companies have signed up to this one and maybe there are parts of it that also apply to the H-FOSS world.
Cheers,
Gisli
From: Chamindra de Silva
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 12:42 PM
Subject: [humanitarian-foss] H-FOSS code of conduct updated to version 1.1
Thanks everyone for your input on the first version of the H-FOSS code of conduct. Mark and I have revised it based on most of the feedback so far and I hope it address most of the concerns. Key changes include:
- A normalizing of the statements to try to avoid redundancy, though in certain instances, we feel it is valuable to have certain best practices more explicitly declared.
- The language has been simplified and we have used the active term statements of conduct using "we will" as suggested by Tim
As Mark mentions the Red Cross code of conduct is not simple and is a 7 page document. We hope to elaborate on to give a background and examples why each statement makes sense as well later.
I am sure there are other suggestions that we can discuss on the next call. Right now you can find it as version 1.1 (I expect a few more changes before we finalize it to version 2.0) at the following URL:
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Mark Prutsalis <ma...@sahanafoundation.org> wrote:
I would add to the agenda some discussion of the H-FOSS maturity model; please review https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AiR82JeFPTCOdGhmU05HM2trb3dac0dJMVdwRXRacWc&hl=en. This is an integral part IMO of any proposal to form a consortium to support humanitarian relief organizations.
Also do review the H-FOSS maturity model which is very much still WIP for reivew. As mentioned this is based on the OpenSource Maturity models such as OpenBRR, except it looks to cover all the needed areas for a project to be ready and prepared to respond with more rigor and accountability.
So how about next Thursday, October 21 at 1300 EDT/1700 UTC?
Hope everyone is OK for Thursday the 21st as Mark mentioned. 1700 UTC is 10am PST, 1pm EST, 6pm GMT and 10:30pm IST.
Please do share your skype ID with him if you wish to participate.
Thanks,
Chamindra de Silva
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Chamindra de Silva
I believe that the humanitarian principles that Cat highlights and the Public-Private Collaboration standards forwarded from Gisli are important documents and principles to subscribe to - (as well as the Red Cross Code of Conduct itself) - if organizations wish to do so, but I don't want to detract from or water down the "open source" core of the proposed HFOSS code of conduct. Having something particular to our communities is a valuable addition to this lexicon of standards. If there is something specific you believe should be added or referenced in the HFOSS standards, it would be helpful if you could highlight them on the call or via this list.
Hope everyone agrees with the principles laid out. Ultimately the main objective is to come to some common consensus on certain agreed principles/values to better enable us to work more effectively and efficiently in partnership both between our H-FOSS teams and also more importantly with deployment agencies and local relief actors.
Chamindra
Don Cameron
Hi Chamindra, all,
Firstly my apologies I have not contributed further to this discussion (my rather poor excuse being I’m in the middle of exams now I’m a somewhat ‘mature-aged’ returnee to university for a masters)
Please find attached the recently re-written and approved Australia Computer Society ‘Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics. I believe it contains a number of clear and well articulated underlying principles of relevance to the H-FOSS code; not the least being its interaction with other FOSS development efforts. The ACS code is the overriding code of conduct for IT professionals in Australia - as such it probably would be referenced (at least in this country) in circumstances of any breach of the H-FOSS code.
The author of the code is Oliver Burmeister (Chair, ACS Committee on Computer Ethics) who literally ‘wrote the book’ on computer codes and ethics – Oliver is also my current subject lecturer and accessible if the team believes that an approach for input into this code could be of value.
Cheers, Don
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