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Several free software/open source projects have "codes of conduct" (CoC) or similar guidelines for how to act responsibly and respectfully. This page serves as an index of codes of conducts and similar documents across as many FLOSS projects as possible.

Maintaining an index of CoC makes it easier to compare them, and possibly choose or adapt one for your project (license permitting).

Why these are useful

As a new contributor, you might prefer FLOSS 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.

Feel free to add links to unlisted CoC. Please preserve alphabetical order on project name.

Community Code of Conducts (CoCs)

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

Diversity statements are not quite CoC, but are still related to community formation. Several FLOSS projects have published diversity statements:

Conference Codes of Conduct

This list is about free and 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. Please add your entry there, if missing.

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-Many free software/open source projects have "codes of conduct" or other guidelines for how to act responsibly and respectfully.
+Several free software/open source projects have "codes of conduct" (CoC) or similar guidelines for how to act responsibly and respectfully. This page serves as an index of codes of conducts and similar documents across as many FLOSS projects as possible.
+Maintaining an index of CoC makes it easier to compare them, and possibly choose or adapt one for your project (license permitting).
-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 new contributor, you might prefer FLOSS 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.
+Feel free to add links to unlisted CoC. Please preserve alphabetical order on project name.
-This list is about ''open source projects'', not in-person events. A good index for events is the Geek Feminism wiki, including its [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Event_Guidelines Event guidelines] and their [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassment Conference anti-harassment] section.
-== Community Code of Conducts (CoCs) ==
+== Community Code of Conducts (CoCs) ==
-(feel free to add more, please preserve alphabetical order on project name)
-* [http://community.apache.org/newbiefaq.html#NewbieFAQ-IsthereaCodeofConductforApacheprojects? Apache]
 * [http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct Debian] (mailing list only)
 * [http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/wiki/index.php/Advocacy#Code_of_Conduct Dreamwidth] (advocacy only)
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 ** [http://mambo-developer.org/content/view/152/19/ Mambo]
 ** [http://typo3.org/community/code-of-conduct/ Typo3]
 == Diversity statements ==
+Diversity statements are not quite CoC, but are still related to community formation.
-(feel free to add more, please preserve alphabetical order on project name)
+Several FLOSS projects have published diversity statements:
 * [http://www.debian.org/intro/diversity Debian]
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 * [http://www.python.org/community/diversity/ Python]
 * [http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/diversity Ubuntu]
 == Conference Codes of Conduct ==
+This list is about ''free and open source projects'', not in-person events. A good index for events is the Geek Feminism wiki, including its [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Event_Guidelines Event guidelines] and their [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassment Conference anti-harassment] section.
-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.
+Please add your entry there, if missing.
-* [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassment/Adoption Geek Feminism list of geek conferences with codes of conduct]; see also the related, generic [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassment/Policy model anti-harassment policy].
-* [http://linux.conf.au/cor/code_of_conduct LinuxConf.au]
-* [http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_code_of_conduct openSUSE Conference]
-* [http://opensourcebridge.org/about/code-of-conduct/ Open Source Bridge]; see also the related, generic [http://citizencodeofconduct.org/about/ Citizen Code of Conduct].
-== Related documents ==
-Some communities have related documents that aren't quite CoCs.
-* [https://gist.github.com/abde4c110d9a09acf38f Django "Community Ideals"] - DRAFT, unknown status