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GNU Kind Communication Guidelines

posted by CoolHand on Monday October 29 2018, @02:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the be-excellent-to-each-other dept.

DannyB writes:

GNU Kind Communication Guidelines

Lest you think this is yet another CoC, the guidelines assure you that they are not a CoC.

Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines

The GNU Kind Communication Guidelines, initial version, have been published in https://gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.html. On behalf of the GNU Project, I ask all GNU contributors to make their best efforts to follow these guidelines in GNU Project discuaaions[sic].

[ . . . ] The difference between kind communication guidelines and a code of conduct is a matter of the basic overall approach.

A code of conduct states rules, with punishments for anyone that violates them.

[...] The idea of the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines is to start guiding people towards kinder communication at a point well before one would even think of saying, "You are breaking the rules." The way we do this, rather than ordering people to be kind or else, is try to help people learn to make their communication more kind.

[ . . . . ] I disagree with making "diversity" a goal. If the developers in a specific free software project do not include demographic D, I don't think that the lack of them as a problem that requires action

The best way to avoid conflict and encourage diversity is to force everyone to voluntarily think alike.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by choose another one on Monday October 29 2018, @06:37PM (2 children)

    by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 29 2018, @06:37PM (#755253)

    At the same time, and prior to, the European ghettos, the Jews didn't feel especially compelled to recreate Israel. Only when the pogroms became unbearable, only after the Nazis attempted to exterminate them, did the Jews find the will, along with the backing, to take back Israel.

    Balfour declaration - 1917
    Formation of Nazi party - 1920

    Clearly _some_ Jews (and powerful supporters thereof) felt compelled to recreate Israel way before the Nazis attempted extermination.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday October 29 2018, @06:47PM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 29 2018, @06:47PM (#755264) Journal

    Yes, Balfour 1917. And, in fact, there were rabble rousers in Israel prior to WW2 stirring the pot. My statement stands - there was little push, and little support for Israel, until WW2. WW2 opened the floodgates.

    • (Score: 2) by Bot on Monday October 29 2018, @11:52PM

      by Bot (3902) on Monday October 29 2018, @11:52PM (#755431) Journal

      First zionist congress, 1897...

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