Many open source projects have a stated "code of conduct" describing proper behavior for contributors.

For example, a code of conduct can explain whether or not it is OK to reveal another contributor's email address or other personal details.

To get a sense of why this type of thing is important, read this recent article that touches on on-line communities and how people within them interact:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/30/four-years-in-startups

We do not have a written and publicly shared code of conduct for the IGB project. However, we also would like for external developers to contribute! To make this easier, we should provide a "code of conduct" so that developers will come to know good ways to interact with other IGB contributors as well as with developers working on related sister projects.

For this task, please provide links to codes of conduct (5 to 10?) used by open source projects.

Read them and and then make note of any commonalities among them. Also make note of aspects you feel we should consider when developing a code of conduct for the various IGB-related projects.

Places to start:

Look for codes of conduct from awardees of Chan Zukerberg Initiative Essential Open Source Softare grants
Code of Conduct
Guide to Contributions
Jbrowse
Apollo
Bioconductor project
R project
Galaxy
BioPerl
BioPython
BioJava
BioConda - good one to do

• Galaxy project code of conduct
• Codes of conduct for projects that include large numbers of contributors (Linux maybe?)

When you have finished above, review the codes of conduct and pull out ideas and themes you think in your best judgement we should emulate for the IGB project.