📯 principles: Initial commit

This is a direct port of the working draft of Principles currently found
in our Discourse discussion thread:

    https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/principles-of-authentic-participation-continuing-the-sustain-conversation/284?u=jwf

Signed-off-by: Justin W. Flory <git@jwf.io>

Author: justwheel

docs/index.rst

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+    :caption: Principles:
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+    principles/*
 
-    :caption: Principles:
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+*******
+Purpose
+*******
+
+**To define a core set of principles of what authentic participation means in multiple contexts (e.g. corporate, individual, humanitarian/NGO, etc.).**
+
+These principles can be used as a starting place for future work, such as a best practices document, a certification body, or other mediums.
+But before we get tactical, we need to be strategic about what principles are essential to authentic contribution.
+
+
+****************
+High-level recap
+****************
+
+This discussion took place across two working sessions at `Sustain 2020 <https://blog.justinwflory.com/2020/02/sustain-oss-2020-quick-rewind/>`_:
+
+- Models for corporate accountability as open source community members (a.k.a. what does it mean to be a corporate member of open source communities?)
+- Principles of Authentic Contribution (`session notes`_)
+
+Across the sessions, we talked about the following:
+
+#. Organizational accountability
+#. How to participate in open source transparency and authentically as an organization
+#. Desire to create an inter-organizational resource to take back to our orgs to help explain what authentic participating in open source actually looks like
+#. Explore ways to build social accountability into our workplaces
+
+Themes from Sustain conversations
+=================================
+
+The `session notes`_ are annotated and color-coded according to the following themes:
+
+- **Maintainer responsibility**: Open-sourcing your own projects or participating in existing communities
+- **Guiding hand**: Navigating contribution intent with a hidden agenda that is not well-communicated
+- **Participation**: Making key decisions while involving a community
+- **Equalizing knowledge**: Understated value in documentation?
+- **Undervaluation of open source**: Communicating less obvious perks for engaging authentically
+- **You and corporation**: Relationship between individual contributors and the organization they represent in their contributions
 
 
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 * :ref:`genindex`
 * :ref:`modindex`
 * :ref:`search`
+
+.. _`session notes`: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15UcaImOlR1XKA9SX9qE_kxW5A6NRI_369eQUO5ZW1xc/edit?usp=sharing

docs/principles/01-starts-early.md

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+Starts Early.
+=============
+
+**This came out of the discussions about organizations showing up with mature, fully baked contributions over which the community had no input.**

docs/principles/02-community-first.md

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+Puts the Community First.
+=========================
+
+**This reflected the general consensus that when an organization and the community want different things, the community needs to come first.**

docs/principles/03-start-listening.md

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+Starts With Listening.
+======================
+
+**This was Duane’s reflection of some comments about folks showing up to projects with no historical context and telling them everything they were doing wrong.**

docs/principles/04-transparent-motivations.md

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+Has Transparent Motivations.
+============================
+
+**Without a shared understanding of the motivations, it’s impossible to resolve differences of opinion effectively.**
+**No hidden motives.**

docs/principles/05-respectful-behavior.md

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+Enforces Respectful Behavior.
+=============================
+
+**Participants agree to adhere to community-established codes of conduct.**
+**Organizations commit to holding their participants accountable for their behavior.**

docs/principles/06-ends-gracefully.md

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+Ends Gracefully.
+================
+
+**No sudden withdrawal of resources without notification and an exit plan.**
+**Clear documentation that would allow the community to pick up projects when a company decides to withdraw support.**