• Research

2020

Community Health and Harm in Open Source Communities

Funding

  • Ford Foundation
  • Sloan Foundation’s Inaugural Critical Digital Infrastructure Grant

Type

  • Publication

Themes

  • Design
  • Public Interest
  • Open Source

Codes of Conduct define acceptable behavior across conferences and online platforms. How can their creation involve and expand participation in the community, and what lessons can we learn from them? Specifically, how might successful models from the open source movement be models for mitigating harassment, which creates barriers to participation and diversity?

Check out our report findings mentioned in this article on sex tech and codes of conduct, this article on Wikpedia’s new code of conduct, this podcast and this podcast.

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