Not directly related, but I've always found @junanaguy's take on the meaning of "community" very insightful https://cybersocialstructure.org/2015/06/01/getting-a-handle-on-community/ …
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My aim was to shed light on how related/overlapping communities deal w inclusivity, but it's been overshadowed:https://twitter.com/o_guest/status/877491041875755008 …
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What are the lessons to be learned? What went wrong, at which stage?
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Do you mean how the original question/aim of
@o_guest was overshadowed? If so, I contributed to that by reading some but not all Tweets+2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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I meant what went wrong in FOSS communities, leading to non-inclusivity.
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A few details I saw/see - (1) belated focus on CoC; (2) a few notoriously problematic tech leaders; (3) insistence on "meritocracy"...
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OK, let's move one step up: at which stage should measures have been taken, and by who, to do better?
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My point is that nobody controls community rules before a community is recognized as such. So how could one do better?
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good questions that I am thinking about :)
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BTW partly jocular partly serious given how many people rejected my "OS is a community" idea and that I proposed we do more calling out...
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I am technically proposing something BEFORE a community exists. 
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Or least as you say before it is recognised as such. Something to think about for you, even though partly tongue-in-cheek too.
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