"We found that women flourish when supported by community guidelines, such as the codes of conduct for online spaces, in-person events & professional organizations. We found that codes of conduct often become advocacy tools for women’s equal treatment in open-source software online communities."
I, um, wrote a 📘 about this stuff if anyone's interested. Tho it's not a best-practices text as much as 1st principles. Ch 3 is about codes of conduct:
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691192888/hacking-diversity
@inquiline do you know where I can get a copy of the referenced paper Singh, V., Bongiovanni, B. & Brandon, W. Codes of conduct in Open Source Software—for warm and fuzzy feelings or equality in community?
I'd like to know more about the research they did.
