Code of Conduct

[owocki]

I would like to propose that the Greenpill Network adopt a code of conduct to guide relationships between the members (and prospective members) of the network…

A sane starting point from my perspective is the contributor covenant, which I’ve pasted below.

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Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct

Our Pledge

We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation in our
community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body
size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender
identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status,
nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual
identity and orientation.

We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming,
diverse, inclusive, and healthy community.

Our Standards

Examples of behavior that contributes to a positive environment for our
community include:

• Demonstrating empathy and kindness toward other people
• Being respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences
• Giving and gracefully accepting constructive feedback
• Accepting responsibility and apologizing to those affected by our mistakes,
  and learning from the experience
• Focusing on what is best not just for us as individuals, but for the overall
  community

Examples of unacceptable behavior include:

• The use of sexualized language or imagery, and sexual attention or advances of
  any kind
• Trolling, insulting or derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
• Public or private harassment
• Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or email address,
  without their explicit permission
• Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a
  professional setting

Enforcement Responsibilities

Community leaders are responsible for clarifying and enforcing our standards of
acceptable behavior and will take appropriate and fair corrective action in
response to any behavior that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive,
or harmful.

Community leaders have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject
comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are
not aligned to this Code of Conduct, and will communicate reasons for moderation
decisions when appropriate.

Scope

This Code of Conduct applies within all community spaces, and also applies when
an individual is officially representing the community in public spaces.
Examples of representing our community include using an official email address,
posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed
representative at an online or offline event.

Enforcement

Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be
reported to the community leaders responsible for enforcement at codeofconduct@greenpill.network.
All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly.

All community leaders are obligated to respect the privacy and security of the
reporter of any incident.

Enforcement Guidelines

Community leaders will follow these Community Impact Guidelines in determining
the consequences for any action they deem in violation of this Code of Conduct:

1. Correction

Community Impact: Use of inappropriate language or other behavior deemed
unprofessional or unwelcome in the community.

Consequence: A private, written warning from community leaders, providing
clarity around the nature of the violation and an explanation of why the
behavior was inappropriate. A public apology may be requested.

2. Warning

Community Impact: A violation through a single incident or series of
actions.

Consequence: A warning with consequences for continued behavior. No
interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with
those enforcing the Code of Conduct, for a specified period of time. This
includes avoiding interactions in community spaces as well as external channels
like social media. Violating these terms may lead to a temporary or permanent
ban.

3. Temporary Ban

Community Impact: A serious violation of community standards, including
sustained inappropriate behavior.

Consequence: A temporary ban from any sort of interaction or public
communication with the community for a specified period of time. No public or
private interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction
with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, is allowed during this period.
Violating these terms may lead to a permanent ban.

4. Permanent Ban

Community Impact: Demonstrating a pattern of violation of community
standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior, harassment of an
individual, or aggression toward or disparagement of classes of individuals.

Consequence: A permanent ban from any sort of public interaction within the
community.

Attribution

This Code of Conduct is adapted from the Contributor Covenant,
version 2.1, available at
https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct.html.

Community Impact Guidelines were inspired by
Mozilla’s code of conduct enforcement ladder.

For answers to common questions about this code of conduct, see the FAQ at
https://www.contributor-covenant.org/faq. Translations are available at
https://www.contributor-covenant.org/translations.

[lanzdingz]

Thank you @owocki for proposing this.

I support the adoption of a code of conduct. As the Network grows and we have an increased number of guilds, working groups, chapters, contributors and members, having a policy in place that supports the healthy growth of the network is a net positive.

Conflict and disagreements are a part of working together, but mutual respect is needed.

Having a clear outline of the steps to take in the unfortunate event that there is an incident, is necessary.

[Decentralizedceo]

This was highly needed IMO. I believe it is good for our community to have a COC that fosters healthy interactions with one. What I would also add to this is that this COC extends to those externally representing Greenpill at gatherings, meetups, etc. Thank you @owocki for putting this up!

[Rohit]

This is a great list and will use it as a step 0 for any community building efforts.

One other topic I have often found myself at the crossroads wearing multiple hats across web3 communities is conflict of interest. If deemed relevant for this code of conduct, sharing a draft text for inclusion:

Managing conflict of interest

As an individual with decision rights or influence over community decisions, you are obligated to disclose any material* conflicts of interest that arise from holding multiple roles across different projects or communities. Recognizing that the closely interconnected nature of collaboration in web3 can sometimes make recusal challenging, you must nonetheless strive for objectivity and transparency in all decisions.

*A conflict of interest is material if you have access to exclusive information that would influence your decision and/or have non-trivial impact on your financial situation.

[lanzdingz]

This is a great addition @Rohit, thank you for adding it.

[Decentralizedceo]

Makes a lot of sense. Objectivity comes from the ability to give others free will by disclosing material information. I totally agree as long as we know that the information can be deemed material. @Rohit nice one.

[owocki]

Thanks for the comments yall.

As I consder these comments… I’m wondering what to do with them. In that spirit, one question I have is “how do we ratify changes to the greenpill.network” community? We’ve not laid the proper foundations from a formal governance perspective to allow people to create proposals which become legitimized through some sort of vote or process.

Were also a small community and I don’t have the cycles to build a bunch of expensive and complicated process around governance.

I wonder if there is some lightweight way that we could adopt a code of conduct.

Maybe it’s on me as the original creator of the meme (via the book/podcast) to set down some foundations here. Or maybe we should liaise fair it a bit longer. Or maybe some other path is the most viable.

[lanzdingz]

For certain things, we could put up a joke race vote or something for a more large-scale community vote, without needing to go deep in the process around governance. We can use it as community temperature checks.

For something like this, I support it being you who sets down some foundations as the original creator of the meme (GP). We already have a chapter charter that Sejal originally created and then Izzy and updated a few months back. GreenPill Networks Chapter Charter - Google Docs
it is just more of a guide than a code of conduct, but it does set some boundaries/expectations around being a chapter etc.

Maybe we can add a code of conduct to this?

[Rohit]

@owocki @lanzdingz for a framework on progressing iteratively through governance, I love the concepts offered in the Community Rules booklet (via Media Lab, University of Colorado Boulder).

For example, it feels right to start with the “benevolent dictator” approach to incorporate the CoC immediately and then combine a few decisions for a consolidated ratification via “Consensus” with chapter leads.

[Decentralizedceo]

Yea, as @lanzdingz mentioned, it seems that Joke race would be the most feasible option at the moment until we can possibly create a governance token in the future. This token needs not be of financial value but value to the community. For example there could be an ERC-20 token that is distributed to contributors after each community task. The more they contribute, the more voting power they can have. We can use this to do a snapshot before voting, either with joke race or snapshot.

[mekail]

Love the concepts, am interested in feasible and objective ways to measure contribution and implementing structure that remains transparent and promotes inclusion. Within the gov guild I am interested in discussing these ideas of different governance mechanisms and think it would be interesting to incentivize local chapters and guilds to take on these structures individually first to continue the exploration of what works best.