New on the OES blog: the Contributor Covenant 3 working group members collaborated on a post about the process of rewriting this critical doc. https://ethicalsource.dev/blog/power-of-consensus/

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Thanks to volunteers from the global FOSS community, Contributor Covenant 3, the gold standard code of conduct for digital communities, is now available in Japanese and Spanish!

We welcome additional human-powered native speaker translations to adapt this critical community governance tool for use around the world. (Machine translations are not accepted.)

See all 40 translations here: https://www.contributor-covenant.org/translations/

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Pluralistic: AI is how bosses wage war on "professions" (20 Jan 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/20/i-would-prefer-not-to/

The team behind the new Contributor Covenant website faced a challenge: how to make adoption easy, without making it thoughtless.

Our new builder tool slows adoption to the speed of trust with specific prompts for communities to customize their reporting and enforcement guidelines, and directs adopters to resources and guides from industry experts on codes of conduct.

Learn more at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/

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Congratulations go to IBM as the first official adopter of Contributor Covenant 3.0!

See more featured adopters and explore what's new with the premier code of conduct for digital communities at https://www.contributor-covenant.org

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Well, someone is angry.

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Biodiversity at risk from social media activities

"Liked to death? The social media race for nature photos can trash ecosystems – or trigger rapid extinction...Baiting, drones, poaching and trampling."

Hunting wildlife snaps
"Viral photos of undisturbed natural beauty can lead thousands of people to head there. As more people arrive, they begin destroying what they loved seeing on screen."

Sharing GPS locations
"In 2010, a new species of slipper orchid (Paphiopedilum canhii) was discovered in Vietnam. Photos with location information were posted online. Just six months after discovery, more than 99% of all known individuals had been collected. The orchid is now extinct in the wild."
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https://theconversation.com/liked-to-death-the-social-media-race-for-nature-photos-can-trash-ecosystems-or-trigger-rapid-extinction-235951
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We've recently added translations of Contributor Covenant to Magyar, Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia, and Galego. We are so thankful to the community for these contributions!

See the complete list of translations at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/translations/

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Thanks to a volunteer translator, Contributor Covenant is now available in Basque!

https://www.contributor-covenant.org/eu/version/2/1/code_of_conduct/

With the addition of Basque (Euskara), Contributor Covenant 2.x is now available in 19 languages!

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In addition to thousands of other adoptions, 9 out of the 10 largest open source communities in the world have adopted Contributor Covenant as their code of conduct.

Are you interested in shaping the future of Contributor Covenant? Join us on Monday, February 26 at 1230 US CT for the kickoff meeting for the Contributor Covenant 3.0 Working Group. Contact us by private message here or at https://ethicalsource.dev/contact/ for an invitation!

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