<div dir="ltr">Given what Karen has said, the master branch will be what is currently the CoC for 2013. Chris has already submitted a pull request and I'll merge it as soon as he removes the .html file. Once that's merged, I'll tag it with 2013. Any discussion for amendments can go in a 2014_proposed branch. The TPF will determine a cut-off date for submission to lawyers for review for the CoC for 2014 and we'll just adhere to that.<div>
<br></div><div style>I hope that the rest of the documents can be pushed into other repositories under the YAPC-NA organization. Once other repositories are created, I would ask for all the chairpersons of prior YAPCs submit their documents for inclusion so that we can create a historical repository. Things like planning documents, various legal contracts, etc. Maybe even talks and the like can go here.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Karen Pauley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:karen@martian.org" target="_blank">karen@martian.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 23 March 2013 09:17, Robert Blackwell <<a href="mailto:robert@robertblackwell.com">robert@robertblackwell.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I think this is a great idea to have the community work on the Code of<br>
> Conduct but do note that TPF has/had a lawyer helping to write a Code<br>
> of Conduct. Can someone from TPF chime to say if we can run a new<br>
> community edited Code of Conduct by the lawyers and what would the<br>
> timeframe be? There already is a CoC for YAPC::NA,<br>
> <a href="http://www.yapcna.org/yn2013/code-of-conduct.html" target="_blank">http://www.yapcna.org/yn2013/code-of-conduct.html</a>.<br>
<br>
</div>When you sign-up for YAPC this year you check a box saying you agree<br>
to that specific code of conduct - the details of which are listed<br>
there.<br>
I don't believe that we are going to be able to change that document<br>
before YAPC::NA as we not only would we have to run it past lawyers we<br>
would have to get every attendee who has agreed to the current one to<br>
agree to the new document. And whilst I am sure someone could come up<br>
with a technology solution for that we will run into problems with<br>
people having agreed to different versions of the code. (Could we<br>
really turn people away who have agreed to the current code of conduct<br>
and have already paid and registered but who didn't happen to like the<br>
language in the new one?)<br>
<br>
Also it's so quick to write a phrase like - run it past lawyers - but<br>
in reality it takes a long time. I started to work on the current<br>
code of conduct last August and I don't think it was ready to go on<br>
the website until around January this year.<br>
<br>
Going forward from this year's YAPC::NA I do believe that this<br>
document needs to evolve to reflect the ethos of the community. I'd<br>
be happy to have interested parties work on improving the code -<br>
though we will have to let our lawyer look at any changes for a code<br>
we were planning on using at YAPC::NA.<br>
<br>
All the best,<br>
<br>
Karen<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Thanks,<br>Rob Kinyon
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