Post #1917933
2026-04-28 18:56 UTC
What was the first free software project with a code of conduct? Gnome's was pretty early, but was it based on prior art?
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@ebassi@mastodon.social 2026-04-28 19:20
@iain@kolektiva.social GNOME was pretty early, but AFAIR we modelled our early code of conduct on the Ubuntu community one
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@janl@narrativ.es 2026-04-28 19:46
@iain@kolektiva.social we were pretty early with Hoodie and CouchDB
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@jamesh@aus.social 2026-04-29 01:04
@iain@kolektiva.social I don't remember any other examples when Ubuntu was drafting it's code back in 2004. In that case the goal was to assert some values for a community that didn't exist yet, so it wouldn't just adopt those of whoever joined first. @mako@social.coop was the main person drafting that document, so perhaps he has some insight? Here's a blog post he wrote that describes some of the process: https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/updating-the-ubuntu-code-of-conduct