From 3e57cc934755c95f75e5832ead2b46567190f84c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: castastrophe Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2025 11:32:40 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] chore: new code of conduct draft chore: proposed language updates to README --- CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md | 81 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ profile/README.md | 58 ++++++++++++++++----------------- 2 files changed, 110 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) create mode 100644 CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md diff --git a/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md b/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..379bf57 --- /dev/null +++ b/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@ +# Code of Conduct + +## Our Pledge + +In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as +contributors and maintainers pledge to make participation in our project and +our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body +size, disability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, level of experience, +nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and +orientation. + +## Our Standards + +Examples of behavior that contributes to creating a positive environment +include: + +- Using welcoming and inclusive language +- Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences +- Gracefully accepting constructive criticism +- Focusing on what is best for the community +- Showing empathy towards other community members + +Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include: + +- The use of sexualized language or imagery, and unwelcome sexual attention or advances +- Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks +- Public or private harassment +- Publishing others' private information, such as a physical or electronic + address, without explicit permission +- Any other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate, discriminatory, or harmful in a professional setting + +## Our Responsibilities + +Project maintainers are responsible for clarifying the standards of acceptable +behavior and must take prompt, appropriate, and fair corrective action in +response to any instances of unacceptable behavior. + +Project maintainers 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, or to ban temporarily or +permanently any contributor for other behaviors that violate this Code of Conduct or are otherwise inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful. + +## Scope + +This Code of Conduct applies both within project spaces and in public spaces +when an individual is representing the project or its community. Examples of +representing a project or community include using an official project e-mail +address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed +representative at an online or offline event. Representation of a project may be +further defined and clarified by project maintainers. + +## Enforcement + +Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be +reported by contacting the maintainers directly. All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and will result in a response that is deemed necessary and appropriate to the circumstances. We are committed to maintaining confidentiality for those who report incidents. Further details of specific enforcement policies may be posted separately. + +Project maintainers who do not follow or enforce the Code of Conduct in good +faith will face temporary or permanent repercussions as determined by other +members of the project's leadership. + +## Consequences + +Project maintainers who determine that a participant has violated this Code of Conduct may take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including: + +- **Correction**: A private, written warning providing clarity around the nature of the violation and an explanation of why the behavior was inappropriate. A warning may include a request for a public or private apology. + +- **Warning**: 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. + +- **Temporary Ban**: 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. + +- **Permanent Ban**: A permanent ban from any sort of public interaction within the community. + +These consequences may be applied immediately and without prior warning for severe violations, such as threats of violence, sexual harassment, or discriminatory behavior. The specific consequences will be determined based on the severity and frequency of the violation, and will be communicated to the individual in question. + +## Attribution + +This Code of Conduct is adapted from the [Contributor Covenant][homepage], version 1.4, +available at [http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4][version] + +[homepage]: http://contributor-covenant.org +[version]: http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/ diff --git a/profile/README.md b/profile/README.md index e8722ca..dcb7a25 100644 --- a/profile/README.md +++ b/profile/README.md @@ -1,9 +1,11 @@ # Web Platform Collective > [!IMPORTANT] -> **This effort is a work in progress and is still very early stage**. -This readme is a placeholder. -But while you’re here, here’s a draft of what we’re thinking about. +> **This effort is a work in progress**. + +This is a placeholder with more exciting details to come. + +...But while you're here, we'd love your thoughts on this draft. ## TPAC 2025 breakout @@ -12,13 +14,13 @@ But while you’re here, here’s a draft of what we’re thinking about. ## Mission -Web Platform Collective aims to empower web stakeholders of all sizes to have their web platform pain points addressed and to make independent standards work financially sustainable. +Web Platform Collective aims to empower web stakeholders of all sizes to address their web platform pain points and to make independent standards work financially sustainable. + +Our guiding principles: -Our manifesto: - We believe that all web stakeholders, small and large, should be able to fund web platform improvements that address their pain points without investing thousands of hours in understanding the (admittedly opaque and intimidating) web standards landscape or hiring full-time staff for this purpose. - We believe that even smaller web stakeholders can benefit from solving their pain points directly in the web platform, rather than having to spend thousands or millions working around them ad infinitum. -- We believe that web platform design is critical, highly impactful work, and doing it well is an extremely rare, interdisciplinary skill drawing on skills and knowledge from many different disciplines such as product management, software engineering, HCI, and more. -Therefore, we believe that independent web platform designers should be able to earn a sustainable living doing what they do best — advancing the web — without being forced to choose between unpaid side work and employment at a browser vendor (which suits some, but not all). +- We believe that web platform design is critical, highly impactful work. Doing it well is an extremely rare, interdisciplinary skill requiring expertise in product management, software engineering, HCI, and more. Therefore, we believe that independent web platform designers should be able to earn a sustainable living doing what they do best — advancing the web — without being forced to choose between unpaid side work and employment at a browser vendor (which suits some, but not all).