AnyoneCanLearn is a resource for software developers to help foster communities focused on positivity and learning.
One of the primary goals of this project is to provide resources to help beginners learn in an effective way. We're not about providing specific solutions to problems, but instead we want to provide you with the skills to discover those solutions yourself.
Another goal is to help contributors – developers who are answering questions – to do so in a constructive way. How we say something is just as important as what we say. This is especially true on the Internet and over media like Twitter, where nuance is difficult to convey.
This project is very early in its development, and it will continue to evolve and change over the coming months and, hopefully, years. If you have an idea for how to make this better, please open an issue. If you see an issue that you'd like to contribute to, leave a comment or open a pull request. Everyone is welcome to have a say.
These are in flux, as this is still a very young project.
- Anyone should be able to participate, learn, and teach.
- Respect others.
- Do no treat others differently because of their age, gender, sex, orientation, ethnicity, ablebodiness, fluency in English, or any other personal characteristics.
We believe that there should never be a circumstance where the barrier to entry into our field is external to the person trying to enter it. No one should be made to feel bad because they don't know something because the fact of the matter is that computers are complicated and no one was born understanding how to use them.
There are several source of inspiration for this project.
Matt Gemmell's inspirational resource for asking well-formed questions is fantastic and fits well within our values. However, people began abusing it, and the Stackoverflow community had to eventually decide on how to deal with comments that only link tot hat resource. Matt's post is great, but we need something to put it in context.
Several communities (like Django and Python) have explicit Codes of Conduct for their communities. That's awesome! And they're tailored to the kinds of issues those communities face. This project is intended to be a sort of meta Code of Conduct that software developers choose to adhere to with the intention of fostering communities based on positivity.
CocoaPods has a set of communication guidelines that are a very good resource for how to communicate online, generally.