ver. 0.1, 30 March, 2006
Copyright © 2005—2006 Enrico Zini
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Abstract
This is the Debian Community Guidelines, a collection of what sane people are already doing everyday, written down so that we don't risk forgetting.
The Guidelines are divided in four parts:
Chapter 1, Main guidelines: main suggestions to always keep in mind.
Chapter 2, Communication-specific guidelines: suggestions specific to communicating with others.
Chapter 3, Debian-specific guidelines: suggestions specific to working with Debian.
These guidelines are mainly about interacting with other people. For technical suggestions, please refer to the Debian Developer's Reference.
In addition to the guidelines, there is a collection of resources for moderators, listmasters, DPLs and other people with some leadership, moderation, mediation or facilitation role (see Chapter 4, Resources for moderators, listmasters, DPLs...).