Launchpad etiquette document/code of conduct

[Caroline Ford]

On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 08:05 +0100, Matthew East wrote:

> 2. When interacting with people on bug reports, I like to know their
> real name :)
> 
But you are making people expose real life details about themselves - I
think launchpad already "requires" this to be taken seriously as a
contributor.

Why should I have to declare I'm a woman (or say a muslim) to contribute
effectively to Ubuntu?

The work done on women in FLOSS suggests that women generally use gender
neutral nicknames, initials etc to not stand out. In my time on malone
I've had large photos of random men sent to me and other unrequested
rubbish. I would never have had that if launchpad had allowed me to be
"secretlondon" (as I can on wikipedia) without also having to declare
that I'm also called Caroline.

I've set up a project on sourceforge and thankfully I don't have to give
my real name. This "use real names" policy was one of the reasons I
wouldn't use launchpad. (the other was lack of file hosting)

Caroline