Project codes of conduct

Many free software/open source projects have "codes of conduct" or other guidelines for how to act responsibly and respectfully.

One of the most famous is Ubuntu's "Code of Conduct." This page serves as an index of codes of conduct across all FLOSS projects.

Why these are useful

As a new contributor, you might prefer open source communities where contributors pay attention to these sorts of social questions. Having a code of conduct is often an indicator that a project has a sizeable number of contributors and interested in growing.

As a project maintainer, you might want to look these over as inspiration for your project.

This list is about open source projects, not in-person events. A good index for events is the Geek Feminism wiki, including its Event guidelines and their Conference anti-harassment section.

Community Code of Conducts (CoCs)

(feel free to add more, please preserve alphabetical order on project name)

• Debian (mailing list only)
• Dreamwidth (advocacy only)
• GNOME
• KDE
• Mozilla Mozilla - DRAFT, unknown status
• OpenStack OpenStack events policy and Blog Authors Code of Conduct
• Tizen
• Ubuntu
• the Ubuntu CoC has been influential in the development of many others derived CoCs:
  • Joomla
  • Mambo
  • Typo3

Diversity statements

(feel free to add more, please preserve alphabetical order on project name)

• Debian
• Dreamwidth
• Python
• Ubuntu

Conference Codes of Conduct

These are listed separately from Community Codes of Conduct because they often have very different purposes/structures. Feel free to add more, but please preserve alphabetical order on conference/organization name.

• Geek Feminism list of geek conferences with codes of conduct; see also the related, generic model anti-harassment policy.
• LinuxConf.au
• openSUSE Conference
• Open Source Bridge; see also the related, generic Citizen Code of Conduct.

Related documents

Some communities have related documents that aren't quite CoCs.

• Django "Community Ideals" - DRAFT, unknown status