| 1 | # Code of Merit
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| 3 | 1. The project creators, lead developers, core team, constitute
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| 4 | the managing members of the project and have final say in every decision
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| 5 | of the project, technical or otherwise, including overruling previous decisions.
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| 6 | There are no limitations to this decisional power.
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| 8 | 2. Contributions are an expected result of your membership on the project.
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| 9 | Don't expect others to do your work or help you with your work forever.
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| 11 | 3. All members have the same opportunities to seek any challenge they want
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| 12 | within the project.
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| 14 | 4. Authority or position in the project will be proportional
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| 15 | to the accrued contribution. Seniority must be earned.
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| 17 | 5. Software is evolutive: the better implementations must supersede lesser
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| 18 | implementations. Technical advantage is the primary evaluation metric.
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| 20 | 6. This is a space for technical prowess; topics outside of the project
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| 21 | will not be tolerated.
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| 23 | 7. Non technical conflicts will be discussed in a separate space. Disruption
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| 24 | of the project will not be allowed.
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| 26 | 8. Individual characteristics, including but not limited to,
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| 27 | body, sex, sexual preference, race, language, religion, nationality,
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| 28 | or political preferences are irrelevant in the scope of the project and
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| 29 | will not be taken into account concerning your value or that of your contribution
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| 30 | to the project.
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| 32 | 9. Discuss or debate the idea, not the person.
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| 34 | 10. There is no room for ambiguity: Ambiguity will be met with questioning;
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| 35 | further ambiguity will be met with silence. It is the responsibility
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| 36 | of the originator to provide requested context.
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| 38 | 11. If something is illegal outside the scope of the project, it is illegal
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| 39 | in the scope of the project. This Code of Merit does not take precedence over
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| 40 | governing law.
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| 42 | 12. This Code of Merit governs the technical procedures of the project not the
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| 43 | activities outside of it.
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| 45 | 13. Participation on the project equates to agreement of this Code of Merit.
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| 47 | 14. No objectives beyond the stated objectives of this project are relevant
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| 48 | to the project. Any intent to deviate the project from its original purpose
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| 49 | of existence will constitute grounds for remedial action which may include
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| 50 | expulsion from the project.
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| 52 | This document is the Code of Merit (https://codeofmerit.org/), version 1.0.
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