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MeeGo (global) Community has guidelines, which affect us too. Below is the Code of Conduct for our local community. Our CoC is adapted from Ubuntu community with minor adjustements.
Your efforts will affect other people, and you in turn will depend on the efforts of others. Any decision you make will affect users and colleagues, and we expect you to take those consequences into account when making decisions.
The MNFI community and its members treat one another with respect. Everyone can make a valuable contribution to our community. We may not always agree, but disagreement is no excuse for poor behavior and poor manners. We might all experience some frustration now and then, but we cannot allow that frustration to turn into a personal attack. It’s important to remember that a community where people feel uncomfortable or threatened is not a productive one. We expect members of the MNFI community to be respectful when dealing with other contributors as well as with people outside the community.
MNFI, MeeGo and Free Software are about collaboration and working together. Collaboration reduces redundancy of work done in the Free Software world, and improves the quality of the software produced. You should aim to collaborate with other members, as well as with the global MeeGo community which is interested in the work we do. Your efforts should be done transparently. If you wish to work on some topic related the community (for example start a new team), at least keep the community informed of your ideas and progress. It may not be possible to get consensus from your colleagues about the correct implementation of an idea, so don’t feel obliged to have that agreement before you begin, but publish your work in a way that allows outsiders to test, discuss, and contribute to your efforts.
Disagreements, both political and technical, happen all the time, and the MNFI community is no exception. The important goal is not to avoid disagreements or differing views but to resolve them constructively. You should turn to the community and to the community process to seek advice and to resolve disagreements. We have the Community Meeting, which is the right context for community affecting questions and decisions. There are also several Teams and Team Leaders, who may be able to help you figure out which direction will be most acceptable. If nothing else works, we can seek advice and assistance from the global MeeGo community.
Nobody knows everything, and nobody is expected to be perfect in the Ubuntu community. Asking questions avoids many problems down the road, and so questions are encouraged. Those who are asked should be responsive and helpful. However, when asking a question, care must be taken to do so in an appropriate forum. Off-topic questions, such as requests for help on a development thread in our community Forum, detract from productive discussion.
Members often have responsibilities such as Team Lead and people come and go, MNFI is no different. When you leave or disengage from your position, in whole or in part, we ask that you do so in a way that minimizes disruption to the community. This means you should tell people you are leaving and take the proper steps to ensure that others can pick up where you leave off.