[Chicago] Chipy Thursday Meetup

[Valentina Kibuyaga]

"Recent diversity
efforts have been successful in forcing change across the community
when it comes to conduct, and it's only getting stronger."

> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:00:24 -0600
> From: brian at python.org
> To: chicago at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Chicago] Chipy Thursday Meetup
> 
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Geoff Brown <geoffbrown at comcast.net> wrote:
> > I imagine I'm not alone in wondering why after ten years there is a level of
> > urgency to develop a code of conduct
> > and have financial transparency that would warrant abandoning professional
> > behavior?
> > Professional conduct would dictate that one bring up matters of reputation
> > and performance in person and preferably
> > in private. What am I missing here??
> >
> > May Guido help us if we do get a Code of Conduct.
> 
> You're definitely not alone, but the state of open source software
> communities is significantly different in 2014 than it was in 2004, or
> so I'm told - I was a sophomore in college. It's a lot different from
> 2006 when I got involved.
> 
> PyCon operated for 10 years before a CoC came up, and now you would be
> hard pressed to find a tech conference without one. If you find one,
> I'm fairly certain it's under pressure to get a CoC. Recent diversity
> efforts have been successful in forcing change across the community
> when it comes to conduct, and it's only getting stronger.
> 
> The PSF operated for roughly the same time without a code, and now not
> only are we extending that CoC out into the actions we take and things
> we provide, the first check we do when evaluating grant proposals for
> user groups, conferences, or requests to use our resources is if a
> group has a code of conduct.
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