talk.kiezburn.org
Tue 29 Jun 2021 3:22PM

FINALISED: Kiez Burn Code of Conduct & Radical Accountability Department

H Hanna-Maija (Animal) Public Seen by 127

This advice process was about creating and implementing a Code of Conduct and founding a Conflict Awareness team for the Kiez Burn community

The Code of Conduct can be found here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nGCRtXA6y8ggkwQ8FuQqRc1_XjJnwPXjGtBYDRlp8pc/edit?usp=sharing

Proposer:

@Hanna-Maija (Animal) she/her

Proposer’s role:

I have been part of the Kiez Burn community from the first year on and have been involved in several lead positions throughout the years. I have been taking part in some conflict resolving processes within the community and I am a semi professional consent educator. I strongly believe that Kiez Burn would benefit from a Code of Conduct that would set some basic standards on what is expected from people participating in the community and its events.

The advice process

Information gathered before posting

I hosted a Code of Conduct workshop at the Workshop event we had last August and gathered some notes and ideas from people. I went through several Code of Conduct documents form different communities (burner and other) and used them as a base of this document, most importantly to mention the Code of Conduct of Nowhere: https://www.goingnowhere.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Nowhere_Volunteers_and_Participants_Code_of_Conduct_2018.pdf

People/roles most affected by this proposal

  • Rangers: @Jessie and @Cris

  • Welfare: @River Aleks

  • Site Leads: @CJ YetmanYetman @Daisy

  • The e.V. Board @Bee @Alejandro Pereda @Veroca R. Sala @Mareike @Jan-Christian Kaspareit @Alex @Cris

  • The whole community

People/roles with the most knowledge and experience relevant to this proposal:

  • Contributors: @Sunniva @sadie + all the people in the workshop last August

  • All stars: @Franzi @Remy Schneider @waldo

THE PROPOSAL

Background

At the moment Kiez Burn has no Code of Conduct. The community of our size would benefit from having some guidelines on what is expected from us. Code of Conduct would also make the work of the people involved in conflict solving easier, stating a clear guidelines on what is ok and what is not. What is the current situation? What are the problems with this? Are there any assumptions in your proposal?

The proposal

I propose that we collect feedback on this Code of Conduct draft, finish it, found a Conflict Awareness Team and then implement it all in our community.

How would the proposal be implemented

First we need to finish this document. Then we need a Conflict Awareness Team which will create the reporting tools for misconducts and processes for handling them. Once the Code of Conduct is taken into use it needs to be communicated to the community and especially the people working at ranger, welfare or site lead positions need to be trained on how the processes work. In the end the Code of Conduct, the Conflict Answering team and its processes and the reporting tool should be made available on the Kiez Burn website.

Who would implement this proposal

I am happy to drive this proposal forward and start forming the Conflict Awareness Team. If you are interested joining please contact me. I am also hoping support from the rangers and welfare team and the current e.V. board.

When would this proposal be implemented

I would like to have the Code of Conduct written, the processes defined and a Conflict Awareness team at place in time for the next Kiez Burn General Assembly (in the fall 2021). I would like to present this at the GA and have it implemented after an approval.

What would be the cost (time, money, effort, etc.) of this proposal

At the moment there is no financial costs. We need some efforts to finalise the document and some volunteers for the Conflict Awareness Team.

What are the advantages of this proposal (relative to the current situation and/or counter-proposals)

Since at the moment we have no Code of Conduct this would be a great step forward. The Code of Conduct addresses many of our principles including Consent, Inclusion and LNT.

What are the disadvantages of this proposal (relative to the current situation and/or counter-proposals)

It requires work and collaboration between different teams in the time when we are already short of time.

//EDIT 8.1.2022
This advice process is closed. As a result Kiez Burn now has A Code of Conduct and Radical Accountability Department (RAD)


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Hanna-Maija (Animal) Tue 13 Jul 2021 1:37PM

https://www.goingnowhere.org/consent/

This is how Nowhere has organised this. It's worth reading for anyone who is interested in the topic. I could see us working in a similar way.

In my opinion it's important that the CAT is separated from the board. It is important that also (and especially?) a board member can be reported to an unbiased party. Otherwise the members of the committee could be volunteers just like in any other volunteer role. See my answer to Franzi below!

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Mi Go Thu 29 Jul 2021 3:56PM

@Hanna-Maija (Animal) I saw @Sunniva successfully moved the Dog Proposal so maybe she can help

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walto Fri 30 Jul 2021 3:56PM

the three dots contain "move to group" and then you choose "advice processes"

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Hanna-Maija (Animal) Wed 4 Aug 2021 12:38PM

Thanks! I can't find the "advice process"... I have decided to let go of this for now as I didn't have enough time and I don't have a team to do this with. I will think about bringing this to the next GA instead. I hope we can nevertheless use the draft to monitor our own behaviours before and during the event.

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walto Sun 8 Aug 2021 7:29PM

@Hanna-Maija (Animal) the link to the advice process group is here: https://talk.kiezburn.org/advice-processes/ you need to join the group in order to move any thread there.

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Franzi Thu 8 Jul 2021 4:31PM

Plus one on what @waldo said :) Also, great proposal @Hanna-Maija (Animal) <3

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Hanna-Maija (Animal) Thu 19 Aug 2021 4:24PM

I have changed the deadline for this to later. Next goal: to have it ready by the time of the next GA

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Cris Tue 29 Jun 2021 4:22PM

Ah, right! I actually have a lot of interest in this Awareness Team, but wouldn't commit before knowing more precisely what it'll demand, to avoid overloading.

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Hanna-Maija (Animal) Tue 29 Jun 2021 4:27PM

Thank you Cris - great feedback! I added a deadline 30.7. to the proposal.

I also think that having a pretty shorter version to hang on the wall makes sense. I suggest we work on this after we have finished the full version.

And happy to have you check out the team - I could invite you to the first meeting once I have a few interested people and we talk about the demands and availabilities together? :) x

CY

CJ Yetman Tue 6 Jul 2021 7:54AM

I think the safety protocols have always been public, and presumably the 2021 version will be too when it’s finished, no? Though arguably it has not been widely promoted I guess. I think as @Franzi mentioned elsewhere, there may be a tiny bit of hesitancy because frankly some of the things are not up for debate, at least not to a level of I’m-a-rando-FB-user-that’s-not-even-going-to-the-event-and-I-think-this-part-is-stupid type threads.