> we subsequently learned that "Code of Conduct" has a very specific and almost sacred meaning to some readers, a meaning to which this document does not confor

> we subsequently learned that "Code of Conduct" has a very specific and almost sacred meaning to some readers, a meaning to which this document does not conform My favorite in-person programmer group was disbanded over a purely theoretical debate about the Code of Conduct. About 30% of the group decided we were being exclusionary by not incorporating very specific, and in my opinion exclusionary, language. However the same 30% had no problem attending a reconstituted group containing exactly the same people which formed a few weeks after the first group disbanded. The new group has no code of conduct. It simply meets in places that have a preexisting set of rules, and we go by whatever they are. Problem solved.