Create CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

malvikasharan commented 4 years ago

Background

Blog post on creating an OBF wide code of conduct https://www.open-bio.org/2019/11/15/creating-an-obf-wide-code-of-conduct/
Blog post requesting comments https://www.open-bio.org/2021/05/12/request-for-comments-on-coc-draft/
Board meeting where board agreed to be bound by membership vote on this PR https://www.open-bio.org/2021/09/11/obf-public-board-meeting-2021-09-21/

Summary

Upon agreement with the OBF board, a CoC is being proposed for OBF.
An enforcement manual and reporting guideline will be added subsequently.
The comments have been accumulated on issue #67
A BoF at BCC2020 will share this doc with the community

Reference document:

The Carpentries CoC: https://docs.carpentries.org/topic_folders/policies/index_coc.html

nlharris commented 4 years ago

Is this ready to merge?

cjfields commented 3 years ago

@peterjc @hlapp @gedankenstuecke have a look when you can. We're on the cusp! (I know @yochannah is already looking 😉)

cjfields commented 3 years ago

This is ready to go, thanks everyone! @peterjc does this need public board approval prior to merging?

hlapp commented 3 years ago

@peterjc does this need public board approval prior to merging?

I would think so. Also, we said this needs a membership vote in approval.

cjfields commented 3 years ago

@hlapp okay, will add that this needs a membership vote at the public meeting.

cjfields commented 3 years ago

We can merge this with 5 approvals, but will block until approval via membership vote

malvikasharan commented 3 years ago

@nlharris @cjfields @hlapp @peterjc @gedankenstuecke @yochannah @HLWiencko This PR has been updated with all the documents. We need to add the dedicated emails in all the documents including for ombudsperson.

@tracykteal I hope you can have a look at the documents and recommend any wording or procedure that should be updated.

Preview documents in this branch HERE

cjfields commented 3 years ago

We can merge this with 5 approvals, but will block until approval via membership vote

Nevermind, will add a disclaimer that this is provisional and needs acceptance by the membership to be official

brianrepko commented 3 years ago

The section "Communication and community engagement platforms" might need some editing. We may want to update the Gitter channel reference (first one) or remove that as we refer to Gitter, Slack, and Twitter at the end of that sentence.

Otherwise read through everything and 👍

kipkurui commented 3 years ago

Thank you for a clear Code of Conduct. I may have missed it, but I did not see the avenues for appeal when a resolution has been made. Is that captured somewhere?

malvikasharan commented 3 years ago

Hi Caleb, you're right. We have not added the appeal process, which definitely should be integrated. We can in principle take The Carpenries process as described here: https://docs.carpentries.org/topic_folders/policies/enforcement-guidelines.html.

malvikasharan commented 3 years ago

I have added an appeal process in the enforcement manual.

kipkurui commented 3 years ago

I have added an appeal process in the enforcement manual.

Thanks, Malvika. Looks good!

cjfields commented 3 years ago

@peterjc just a friendly reminder, we'll need your review on this one

peterjc commented 3 years ago

Note: We would need to update https://www.open-bio.org/code-of-conduct/ after merging this PR.

nlharris commented 3 years ago

@peterjc You haven't done your official review of this yet.

peterjc commented 2 years ago

Approved by balloting the OBF members, merging: https://vote.heliosvoting.org/helios/e/obf-coc-css

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