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title: "Creator's Code"
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author: Christine Dodrill
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date: 2018-09-17
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# [Creator's Code](https://github.com/Xe/creators-code)
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I feel there is a large problem in the industry I have found myself in. There is,
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unfortunately, a need for these kinds of documents to help arrange and align
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collaboration across so many cultural and ideological barriers, as well as
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technological and understanding-based barriers. There are so many barriers that
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it becomes difficult for people from different backgrounds to get integrated into
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the flow of the project or to maintain people due to the behavior of others.
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I seek to change this by offering what I think to be a [minimalist alternative][code]
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grounded in a core of humility, appreciation, valor, forgiveness, understanding,
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and compassion. Humility for knowing that your own way is not always the correct
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one, and that others may have had a helpful background. Appreciation for those
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that show up, their contributions, and the lives that we all enrich with our work.
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Valor, or the courage to speak up against things that are out of alignment with
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the whole. Forgiveness, because people change and it is not fair to let their
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past experiences sour things too much. Understanding is the key to our groups,
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the knowledge of how complicated systems interact and how to explain it to people
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less familiar with them. Compassion for others hardships, even the ones we cannot
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as easily comprehend.
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I am basing this not on any world religion, but on a core I feel is condicuve to
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human interrelation as adults who just want to create software.
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This mainly started as a reaction to seeing so many other projects adopt codes
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of conduct that enables busybodies to override decision-making processes in open
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source communities. I am not comfortable with more access to patterns of numbers
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being used as a means of leverage by people who otherwise have no stake in the
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project.
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If this adds any factor to my argument, I personally am transgender. I normally
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don't mention it because for the 99% of real-world cases (including my doctor)
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it is not relevant. It is mostly relevant when dealing with my doctor.
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In meditation, it is often useful to lead a session with a statement of
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intention. This statement helps set the tone for the session and can sometimes
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help as a guide to go back to when you feel you have gone astray. I want the
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[Creator's Code][cc] to be such a statement of intention. I want it to focus the
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creations and using them to enrich their creators as well as others who just
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happen to read its code.
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I hope this code of conduct helps to serve as a minimalist alternative to others.
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I do not want anyone to push this onto anyone. Making a decision to use a code
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such as the Creator's Code must be a conscious and intentional decision. Forcing
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this kind of thing on anyone is the worst possible way to introduce it. That
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will make people resist more violently than they would have if you introducted
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it peacefully.
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Be well, creators. Be well and just create.
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[cc]: https://github.com/Xe/creators-code
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[code]: https://github.com/Xe/creators-code/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
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