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Behavioral standards in the free software communityBehavioral standards in the free software communityPosted Jun 8, 2006 15:14 UTC (Thu) by wilck (subscriber, #29844)In reply to: Behavioral standards in the free software community by liljencrantz Parent article: Behavioral standards in the free software community
Try not to treat people differently based on on name, gender or ethnicity. Another thing that comes to mind is language. For non-native English speakers, it's more difficult to get heard (and easier to offend) than for "natives". It's hard, but I wish we all would try not to discriminate by English language abilities.
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Behavioral standards in the free software community Posted Jun 8, 2006 16:17 UTC (Thu) by liljencrantz (subscriber, #28458) [Link] Oh, right.
That's a pretty hard issue. I've seen a lot of witty, subtle and ironic responses to messages from people who are obviously struggling with their english. The result is generally that the true intent of the response is completetly misunderstood.
But on the other hand a code of conduct that says "don't try to be funny" won't really help in building a community.
A related issue is that a lot of the time, attacks are disguised as irony. On mailing lists you'll see all kinds of 'Ha ha, just seriously' statements.
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