# Discuss our Community Participation Guidelines **URL:** \ **Category:** Outreach square 🫂\ **Created:** [September 23, 2022, 6:21am UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/discuss-our-community-participation-guidelines/138 "2022-09-23T06:21:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/aschrijver/32/3_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/u/aschrijver)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2022, 7:31am UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/discuss-our-community-participation-guidelines/138/3 "2022-10-15T07:31:53Z")
I just found this [post](https://sunbeam.city/@mayel/108472355626370222) by @mayel containing reference to a paper [Designing Care and Commoning into a Code of Conduct](https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1537&context=nordes) (PDF) by Cindy Kohtala of the Aalto University, Finland. It may have some nice further insights to improve our participation guidelines. > Despite claims to being counterculture and a better alternative, grassroots activist design groups and free culture movements may replicate the marginalizing behaviours of dominant society, also in their governance and designs of their interaction platforms. We developed a code-of-conduct, or Community Guidelines, for our online commons- oriented group to nurture a sense of a caring and mutually responsible community. The guidelines aim to bring into online interaction the living person-to-person dialogic relationality we exhibit in collaborative work offline. Our social learning process could have implications for designing healthier online community protocols and platforms and be able to better tackle the challenges of intersectionality. (Also [cross-referencing to Architecture of Participation](https://discuss.coding.social/t/workflow-for-social-coding-movement/78/3)) --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.coding.social/t/discuss-our-community-participation-guidelines/138)._