Code of conduct

Area Concerned:

The database itself.
The website, wiki and other ressource available at http://openfoodfacts.org .
The presentations: Both the act and the ressource.
The mialing lists and email communications.
The 3rd party communication tool such as slack, github, trello, twitter.

Example rules from other coc

OSM's case:

I found 2 different code of conduct. Both have discussion suround them.

Github code of conduct and discussion
Wiki code of conduct and discussion

It is not enfored as far as I can tell. The closest document to a CoC I could find is well hidden as a ban policy text.

Wikipedia's case:

I found a failed attempt at doing a CoC There is also a long talk page

Fedora's case

They refer to their CoC a lot in mailing list and other online communication tool. It states to be a "guide to make it easier to be excellent to each other." It is in use, but fail to deliver a way to report breach.

PyCon's case

This CoC is aimed at a phisical event, not online communication. It feature both a attendee and staff procedure.

Contributor Covenant's case

This is a generic CoC that we could reuse as is. It aim to be a standart, the same way licence are standars (as far as I understand the project goal)

Ada Initiative's case

They are probably one of the driver behind conferences having policies They provide ressources and arguments for a code of conduct.

Historical account of behaviour on OFF

There might or might not have been behaviour where a code of conduct and a way to repport breach would be beneficial to resolve the issue at hand.

Since there isn't a way to repport breach of conduct, people possibly affected by a breach could have just keep it to themselves.

As far as historical bad behaviour on OFF, there isn't information available.

what information

An inclusive statement
A list of what we think is not allowed
What happens when you break the code
How to repport something that break the code

where

On github repo
On the website
On the mailing list footer (link to)

consult the contributors

We should ask how people feel about adding a CoC. We can ask them via:

Ask our twitter follower
Ask our facebook follower
Ask as part of the survey

A meaningful and powerful but also simple and short CoC

A draft of the CoC