From 2d0e9a4c288f468c2c519761ce3a62b843caf2f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christine Dodrill Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 20:15:40 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] blog: new post on the Creator's Code --- blog/creators-code-2018-09-18.markdown | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+) create mode 100644 blog/creators-code-2018-09-18.markdown diff --git a/blog/creators-code-2018-09-18.markdown b/blog/creators-code-2018-09-18.markdown new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1489c27 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/creators-code-2018-09-18.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +--- +title: "Creator's Code" +author: Christine Dodrill +date: 2018-09-17 +--- + +# [Creator's Code](https://github.com/Xe/creators-code) + +I feel there is a large problem in the industry I have found myself in. There is, +unfortunately, a need for these kinds of documents to help arrange and align +collaboration across so many cultural and ideological barriers, as well as +technological and understanding-based barriers. There are so many barriers that +it becomes difficult for people from different backgrounds to get integrated into +the flow of the project or to maintain people due to the behavior of others. + +I seek to change this by offering what I think to be a [minimalist alternative][code] +grounded in a core of humility, appreciation, valor, forgiveness, understanding, +and compassion. Humility for knowing that your own way is not always the correct +one, and that others may have had a helpful background. Appreciation for those +that show up, their contributions, and the lives that we all enrich with our work. +Valor, or the courage to speak up against things that are out of alignment with +the whole. Forgiveness, because people change and it is not fair to let their +past experiences sour things too much. Understanding is the key to our groups, +the knowledge of how complicated systems interact and how to explain it to people +less familiar with them. Compassion for others hardships, even the ones we cannot +as easily comprehend. + +I am basing this not on any world religion, but on a core I feel is condicuve to +human interrelation as adults who just want to create software. +This mainly started as a reaction to seeing so many other projects adopt codes +of conduct that enables busybodies to override decision-making processes in open +source communities. I am not comfortable with more access to patterns of numbers +being used as a means of leverage by people who otherwise have no stake in the +project. +If this adds any factor to my argument, I personally am transgender. I normally +don't mention it because for the 99% of real-world cases (including my doctor) +it is not relevant. It is mostly relevant when dealing with my doctor. + +In meditation, it is often useful to lead a session with a statement of +intention. This statement helps set the tone for the session and can sometimes +help as a guide to go back to when you feel you have gone astray. I want the +[Creator's Code][cc] to be such a statement of intention. I want it to focus the +creations and using them to enrich their creators as well as others who just +happen to read its code. + +I hope this code of conduct helps to serve as a minimalist alternative to others. +I do not want anyone to push this onto anyone. Making a decision to use a code +such as the Creator's Code must be a conscious and intentional decision. Forcing +this kind of thing on anyone is the worst possible way to introduce it. That +will make people resist more violently than they would have if you introducted +it peacefully. + +Be well, creators. Be well and just create. + +[cc]: https://github.com/Xe/creators-code +[code]: https://github.com/Xe/creators-code/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md