On Jun 20, 2015, at 11:06 AM, Moshe Zadka <zadka.moshe@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi everyone,

I am sure everyone understands that the Twisted community would love more diversity. While it is hard to achieve, it should be easy to remove one of the obvious blockers -- making underrepresented groups feel more welcome.

Thanks for taking this on, Moshe.

I think, and hope, that our IRC channel, our issue system and mailing list have been a friendly, pleasant place. This is an attempt to clarify what we mean by a "friendly, pleasant place".

After some discussion on IRC, I volunteered to write up a Code of Conduct for Twisted. It is mostly an adaptation of Django's CoC -- I think Django has a nice track record of commitment to diversity, and, of course, we expect our communities to overlap.

The one thing I'm wondering here is why we have our own CoC. Particularly...

My current draft, including instructions on how to build it, is in https://github.com/moshez/twisted-coc . I have intentionally not made the built documents available, in an attempt to avoid someone picking them up before they're approved by us.

Why isn't this repository either (A) just a simple text file saying "we have adopted the Django CoC" or (B) a very small fork of something else? One of the concerns is licensing; if the text comes via Django, Django credits the "Speak Up!" project, which is CC-BY, apparently from this repository: <https://github.com/jnoller/talk-mentorship>. Another is... is Twisted really distinct enough to need its own CoC? Just s/Django/Twisted might be good enough? (Since this is not a fork, figuring out if anything else has changed is rather tedious, even after having read both ;)).

Thanks again,