The forum is the primary public space for Casuarina discussion. There is currently no chat as these tend to be biased to certain time zones, and the content is ephemeral, not readily indexed nor searchable. Do not use the Chimera IRC for Casuarina discussion.
The official Fediverse account is:
@casuarina@mastodon.decentralised.social.
An RSS feed of news
is available at: https://casuarina.org/news.xml.
Small questions that can be answered quickly within the length of a toot may be
directed to the Fediverse account. When doing so, consider
including the tag #CasuarinaLinux so that other people can follow the tag and
help out with answers. Anything else should go on the forum.
Creation of new unofficial spaces is discouraged. Sticking to official spaces helps concentrate discussion in a small number of places and allows for consistent expectations of conduct.
Casuarina follows the Chimera conduct guidelines, with an added note about whining about programming languages and their ecosystems:
Casuarina is informally organized. In places where that makes sense, notably the forum, there is no emphasis on keeping things on-topic. A fun and casual environment is better than a boring one, and most topics are okay. After all, a lot of people do not participate in FOSS strictly for the technical efforts, but also to have a comfortable community space where they can interact with like-minded people.
This should not be interpreted as a permission to behave in a toxic manner. It is not just you, and therefore it is extremely important to keep standards high.
If a conflict happens, or if you have any kind of concern, don’t be afraid to raise it - things cannot be fixed if nobody knows anything is wrong, and bottled up conflicts are bad for the community as a whole. If you for some reason cannot do that in public, contacting anybody with moderator rights in private is alright too.
Notably, unwarranted personal attacks or any kind of harassment for any reason are not tolerated. Additionally, participants are fully expected to observe the same level of standards both in and outside of the project spaces, especially if they are contributors or otherwise active. Harmful views that negatively affect any (and particularly those that are marginalized in some way) group of people (this does not include those intentionally causing harm themselves) are not welcome in the project, and keeping good conduct within the project alone is simply not enough.
Overtly malicious behavior is usually clear, but in other cases there may be some doubt. When that happens, it is usually better to assume good intentions by default, especially in a project that has members all over the world and language barrier may create ambiguous situations. Clearing things up before an intervention is necessary is always better than unnecessary conflict.
All violations will be handled based on their severity by anybody in power who is available, and may range from a warning to an expulsion. If you feel you have been wronged, you can appeal to anybody with global access rights, and your case will be re-evaluated.
Examples of unwanted behavior include bigotry of any kind (racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc.), far-right politics, whining about SJWs or codes of conduct, whining about systemd, whining about programming languages and their ecosystems, scam fads (cryptocurrencies, AI, etc.), and so on. This is not exhaustive, but in general should be obvious.