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Libre Food Pantry Set-Up Task#3

CS-448-01
FOSSisms is a very important page to read. It really prepares you for the team mindset you should enter before starting work in a FOSS team environment. If these FOSSism guidelines are followed it is clear great progress for projects will be made. It might be nerve-wracking when it is your turn to commit a change, but the FOSSisms ease the stress. You shouldn’t be nervous to make mistakes in this environment. You will learn from them, and it won’t negatively impact the team as you would think. Everything that the Libre Food Pantry provides is truthfully phenomenal from Communication to Organization. A stress-free moderated zone to contribute tons of code where you will receive feedback.  

From the blog CS@Worcester – Andrew Sychtysz Software Developer by Andrew Sychtysz and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

Blog Post 448-01:  Code of Conduct Pledge

I found the pledge for the code of conduct to be really well written. My wife worked for the Office of federal contract compliance program (OFCCP) as a compliance officer to monitor corporate discrimination. Their “affected classes” were limited to a list including the disabled, sexual discrimination (usually with women being paid less than men), Vietnam war veterans, and a few others. It always bothered me that the list of classes never included gender identity, body size, and personal appearance.

The Pledge by LibreFoodPantry fills in many of the gaps with a much fuller definition of areas of discrimination, and then follows with “Our Standards”, which lays out a clear utopian view of how we should behave in teams and is as essential education for students who are about to enter the business world as any of the technical skills we are learning. The stressing of positive communal behavior is probably the most important thing to learn for entry into business world.

From the blog cs@worcester – (Twinstar Blogland) by Joe Barry and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.