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To some degree one could see a project's choice of CoC as an example of surfacing expectations. Those based on the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines could be saying they're more of a hacker project, foundation people welcome in their spare time. Whereas those adopting the Contributor Covenant and other templates might suggest a project led by foundation people and corporate employees, doing Open Source at work
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But even this is pretty ambiguous. Among Māori, the indigenous people of Aotearoa, there's a brilliant cultural technology called "whakawhanaungatanga". It roughly translates as "making family".
Whenever they come together in a formal setting, they spend a lot of time establishing "whakapapa". This is often translated as "genealogy", but that's only one tiny slice of it. A better translation might be "relatedness".
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Because whakapapa isn't just about actual family ties - whether through blood or marriage - but any shared history or cooperation - or conflict - that relates them to people in the other group. Time spent getting all this on the table means that by the time they start discussing the agenda of the meeting, everyone already knows where they stand with each other. Which *always* affects the way group conversations play out, often in confusing ways if it's not explicit
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