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+title: "Creator's Code"
+author: Christine Dodrill
+date: 2018-09-17
+---
+
+# [Creator's Code](https://github.com/Xe/creators-code)
+
+I feel there is a large problem in the industry I have found myself in. There is,
+unfortunately, a need for these kinds of documents to help arrange and align
+collaboration across so many cultural and ideological barriers, as well as
+technological and understanding-based barriers. There are so many barriers that
+it becomes difficult for people from different backgrounds to get integrated into
+the flow of the project or to maintain people due to the behavior of others.
+
+I seek to change this by offering what I think to be a [minimalist alternative][code]
+grounded in a core of humility, appreciation, valor, forgiveness, understanding,
+and compassion. Humility for knowing that your own way is not always the correct
+one, and that others may have had a helpful background. Appreciation for those 
+that show up, their contributions, and the lives that we all enrich with our work.
+Valor, or the courage to speak up against things that are out of alignment with
+the whole. Forgiveness, because people change and it is not fair to let their
+past experiences sour things too much. Understanding is the key to our groups, 
+the knowledge of how complicated systems interact and how to explain it to people
+less familiar with them. Compassion for others hardships, even the ones we cannot
+as easily comprehend.
+
+I am basing this not on any world religion, but on a core I feel is condicuve to
+human interrelation as adults who just want to create software.
+This mainly started as a reaction to seeing so many other projects adopt codes 
+of conduct that enables busybodies to override decision-making processes in open
+source communities. I am not comfortable with more access to patterns of numbers
+being used as a means of leverage by people who otherwise have no stake in the
+project.
+If this adds any factor to my argument, I personally am transgender. I normally
+don't mention it because for the 99% of real-world cases (including my doctor)
+it is not relevant. It is mostly relevant when dealing with my doctor.
+
+In meditation, it is often useful to lead a session with a statement of 
+intention. This statement helps set the tone for the session and can sometimes
+help as a guide to go back to when you feel you have gone astray. I want the
+[Creator's Code][cc] to be such a statement of intention. I want it to focus the 
+creations and using them to enrich their creators as well as others who just
+happen to read its code.
+
+I hope this code of conduct helps to serve as a minimalist alternative to others.
+I do not want anyone to push this onto anyone. Making a decision to use a code
+such as the Creator's Code must be a conscious and intentional decision. Forcing
+this kind of thing on anyone is the worst possible way to introduce it. That 
+will make people resist more violently than they would have if you introducted 
+it peacefully.
+
+Be well, creators. Be well and just create.
+
+[cc]: https://github.com/Xe/creators-code
+[code]: https://github.com/Xe/creators-code/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md