Team Visioning Retreat in Barcelona
We've seen a lot of changes this past year including a relocation of our home office in Barcelona. It's a high priority for teams that work remotely to gather in shared physical space periodically to connect, discuss, and strategize together; meeting up for things like DevCon, while they get us by, do not fully meet the purpose of a team retreat.
So, let's get together!
We can use this thread for any decisions that come up including date, agenda, scholarship funds, fun side adventures etc.
It will be great to also state both personal and collective intentions for coming, surface specific obstacles that may be prohibiting anyone from committing as well as opportunities for engaging peripheral participants more deeply!
Poll Created Thu 20 Jun 2019 4:07PM
Let's adopt a Code of Conduct! Closed Fri 28 Jun 2019 1:02PM
Tension: We had a great 'Ethics of the DApp' session at our Retreat, and agreed that having a Code of Conduct and Community Guidelines in place would be a good thing.
Not only to ensure the safety and respect of our community, yet also for recourse when conflict with our values or violation of the guidelines occurs.
In hosting the RadicalxChange Meetup we received their version of these docs, which are Creative Commons licensed for use.
1.) Code of Conduct was adapted from here:
http://citizencodeofconduct.org
And can be forked on Github! :)
I've attached the RxC version below, along with their Community (Chapter) Guidelines. Should this proposal pass, I'll form a small working team to revise based on the suggestions from our retreat and submit a draft for review and acceptance to be posted publicly.
I'd also recommend that those requesting to join our chats and create a profile on the DApp be asked to agree to these terms once they are adopted.
Proposal: Adapt a Giveth Code of Conduct for participating in our online forums or in person activities, representing Giveth at events and in communications (internal AND external), using the DApp, collaborating with Giveth, and donating to Giveth.
Results
Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |
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Agree | 87.5% | 7 | |
Abstain | 0.0% | 0 | ||
Disagree | 12.5% | 1 | ||
Block | 0.0% | 0 | ||
Undecided | 0% | 40 |
8 of 48 people have participated (16%)
Dani
Thu 20 Jun 2019 4:57PM
OK.. thanks @krisd for linking to it, I feel silly now to note that this already exists on our wiki and is indeed a fork of exactly the same thing. (note, the attribution is present). So there is that.
to @geleeroyale your point #4 is the one I'd like to focus on, as we do not direct anyone who participates or connects with us to read this or agree to it, which leads to why we don't have those 'graduated sanctions' to enforce.
Marko Prljic
Thu 20 Jun 2019 5:02PM
From the call today I emphasize:
Within the first page or/and on the website we should definitely have the CoC listed in few key points, very clear, direct and 100% aligned with Giveth values and beliefs. Then allow to expand and drill down each section for whoever wants to read more.
Edit:
CoC v1 https://hackmd.io/s/ryQ6LnqI4
ETH Community CoC https://hackmd.io/KAVQHbnRR8SMsY_YIin9qA
ETH Magicians Integrity Ring https://github.com/ethereum-magicians/integrity-ring
Kris is
Fri 21 Jun 2019 2:27PM
Just linking to Kay's answer here - we already have a code of conduct for communities, I don't think we need to spend any time on creating a new one. We just need to write out/summarize what we discussed already, i.e. our codes of conduct for
- Donations to Giveth DAC
- Access to the Giveth DApp
https://github.com/Giveth/Communication/issues/71#issuecomment-503732244
Kay
Sat 22 Jun 2019 1:24PM
Sigh - I don't feel heard at all (actually ignored) and am starting to build up some resistance.
1 - RadicalXchange CoC is nice but not 100% aligned with our values (personal opinion)
2 - The CoC is geared towards physical events whereas ours is tailored for open source dev communities
3 - The CoC adds nothing new to what we have now, but actually is a bit more vague. Reading both it seems that it was forked from the same as ours (without attribution)
4 - We should spend the time on t.o.s
Loie
Tue 25 Jun 2019 4:21AM
i'd like to be a part of this working team! - edit - ok, interesting now reading others' comments... i do understand if people want to block this based off of prioritization reasons and maybe seeing it as a construction zone that we don't have resources for right now... but i am very confused about the other oppositional points brought up! kay, i'm looking forward to hearing your elaboration here ~ sounds like we will have a juicy community meeting this week.
Kay
Tue 25 Jun 2019 9:17AM
Sigh - I don't feel heard at all (actually ignored) and am starting to build up some resistance.
1 - RadicalXchange CoC is nice but not 100% aligned with our values (personal opinion)
2 - The CoC is geared towards physical events whereas ours is tailored for open source dev communities
3 - The CoC adds nothing new to what we have now, but actually is a bit more vague. Reading both it seems that it was forked from the same as ours (without attribution)
4 - We should spend the time on t.o.s
Griff Green
Wed 26 Jun 2019 9:17PM
Love it. I hope we include the work that has been done already on this here: https://wiki.giveth.io/governance/codeofconduct/
Andre
Thu 27 Jun 2019 7:22PM
Such a rich conversation at the giveth retreat i think is a pretty good subject, i will agree on this proposal because getting funds and distributing money around entities would help if people know in what terms those funds are distributed and under what terms
Kay Tue 25 Jun 2019 9:16AM
I should elaborate that I blocked this only for a part of the supplied documents - i.e. I strongly oppose using yet another template and waste time and resources on marginal differences. The block was also used to create further engagement so as to make visible that we have a similar CoC already and also to clear up why a loomio had been made after I put the same info in github discussion already.
@danibelle Attribution is present, sorry overlooked it. It is normal that community meeting deals with less than full info, it shows how important it is to do this kind of thing in asynchronous form as it invites a larger circle for critique.
Because I succeeded to make the existing document visible, I will change my position in order to support the rest of the proposal
I will likely not be present at community meeting, but Loomio is the binding part anyway. However I will gladly be part of the task force to create the additional documents.
Edit: I wish we were more granular with proposals and would not make superproposals that actually propose many things at once that are connected to different opinionated sources.
Dani Tue 2 Jul 2019 1:57PM
Outcome from our Community Meeting on June 27th it was determined that this proposal is very premature and broad, it did not pass. There are 3 distinct items that are needed which may each require a separate proposal, preceded by working groups to draft the following items:
1.) An onboarding process for Giveth community members, that includes review and acceptance of the Code of Conduct
2.) Terms of Service for users of the DApp
3.) Graduated sanctions for noncompliance / violations
Because I tend to view things from a meta-perspective, I see these as interconnected aspects of a unified agreement field that guides work on, within, and beside the Giveth Community which is built around the Dapp at it's core. These agreements encompass the ethics and principles that establish what is 'Blockchain for Good' .. and what is not. They create a structured space that helps individuals make decisions on how we work in our roles to build the tools that will be used by ourselves and others - and how anyone coming into this space is given access to the tools, or may have that access limited or even revoked.
Loie, Kay and Gus have raised a hand to join a working group (or task force ;) ) to put these documents and their supporting processes into a coherent draft format to be presented for review, submission and future adoption. Timeline to be established by this group!
Kay Thu 4 Jul 2019 11:38AM
I created an epic issue for this in gov-lab:
https://github.com/Giveth/gov-lab/issues/22
(@gustavosegovia please send me your handle so I can add you to the Giveth GitHub team)
Gustavo Segovia Thu 4 Jul 2019 12:51PM
it's sepu85 :)
Dani · Sat 22 Jun 2019 3:51PM
!!! I edited my response above based on Kay/Kris' responses. Interesting that nobody on the Community Call was able to reference that we have this CoC on the Wiki.
Let's talk about it again at next weeks call, with more participation, and focus on Awareness of our CoC, Agreement/Acceptance as Terms of Service, and Sanction policy/procedures as they extend to the community beyond 'project maintainers' named in the Enforcement section.
This stuck out for me to follow up on because of several sessions at the Retreat, beside the Ethics panel, including 'Is the Giveth DAC a Commons?' presentation AND the 'What are we NOT doing well' circle.