Openwear guidelines

By joining Openwear, you agree to abide by the policies outlined here and in our Terms of Use.

General rules
Forum and Wiki Guidelines

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General rules

Show that you care
* Be polite and respectful in your interaction with other members, the staff and the tools you are using.
* Constructive criticism is fine. Be free to disagree but you are not free to harass, insult, or attack people. If you cannot conduct yourself in a respectful manner, you will be removed.
* Avoid publicly posting any kind of private information such as personal emails, phone numbers, addresses, full names or other sensible data.
* Be honest and supportive

Show what you make
* Import content that is yours or have the permission to
* Don't import content intended for strictly commercial use (like Multi Level Marketing, promotion or sales, advertisement, links to commercial sites, spam)
* Avoid other people's name and brand to describe your items in the Galleries (ex. Armani-style jacket)
* Be clear, accurate and detailed in categorizing, describing and tagging items in your Galleries.

Filter your content responsibly
* Don't import sexually explicit material or porn.
* Don't import or write content that incite hatred, include hate speech, defamatory, racist or discriminatory speech or extreme violence to people and animals.
* Don't import or write content potentially harmful to minors

Forum and Wiki Guidelines

There are five areas on the Openwear forum and wiki:

* Open cultures

We can define as open cultures the uprising movements related to Free software, free culture and Open Education Resources. Starting from a wide range of different political and philosophical statements, such movements advocate a more open and free approach to knowledge and contents, seen as a common value. Open cultures promote the open source and open intellectual property licenses as a mean for social innovation and sustainability. Some major examples of Open cultures organizations can be considered: Creative Commons (a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share); OER Commons (an organization that aims at support for and build a knowledge base around the use and reuse of open educational resources); Wikipedia (a free, web-based, collaborative encyclopedia); the GNU Project (a free software mass collaboration project.

* Precarity/Work

Precarious work is a term used to describe non-standard employment which is poorly paid, insecure, unprotected, and cannot support a household. In recent decades there has been a dramatic increase in precarious work due to such factors as: globalization, the shift from the manufacturing sector to the service sector, and the spread of information technology. These changes have created a new economy which demands flexibility in the workplace and, as a result, caused the decline of the standard employment relationship and a dramatic increase in precarious work. An important aspect of precarious work is its gendered nature, as women are continuously over-represented in this type of work. Precarious work is frequently associated with the following types of employment: .part-time employment, self-employment, fixed-term work, temporary work, on-call work, homeworkers, and telecommuting.. All of these forms of employment are related in that they depart from the standard employment relationship (full-time, continuous work with one employer). Each form of precarious work may offer its own challenges but they all share the same disadvantages: low wages, few benefits, lack of collective representation, and little to no job security.

* Textile/Fashion industry

Let's monitor and discuss how textile and fashion industry is developing. Topics like standards and labeling, sourcing and marketing strategies, media, greenwashing, wages and workers in garment industry.

* Education/Learning

Let's monitor and discuss how textile and fashion industry is developing. Topics like standards and labeling, sourcing and marketing strategies, media, greenwashing, wages and workers in garment industry.

* Fiscal/Business

Let's monitor and discuss how textile and fashion industry is developing. Topics like standards and labeling, sourcing and marketing strategies, media, greenwashing, wages and workers in garment industry.

* Makers Culture

Let's monitor and discuss how textile and fashion industry is developing. Topics like standards and labeling, sourcing and marketing strategies, media, greenwashing, wages and workers in garment industry.

* Sustainability

Sustainability is not a fact, it's a process to become responsible toward environment, society and economy of life. It's only through a path of sharing information and facilities, that we can easily improve the practice of our activites and become sustainable.

* Openwear technical feedback

Did u find any bug or do you have a technical question about your Openwear.org account? We want to hear from you but this is not a forum where official technical/QA support is available. We'll do our best to get back to you and the most asked questions will be answered collectively in the HELP section.

Forum Guidelines

Please pick only one most appropriate area in which to post your specific topic. Posting the same topic in more than one area is not necessary and leads to confusion and any such duplicate posts will be deleted.

* Be considerate of others when posting in this forum and please keep in mind that cultural differences may exist
* We have users from many different countries that visit here and English is the common language of the forum.
* Other languages are also welcome, especially for local issues, but please try to write your posts in the language indicated in the title of the thread.
* Remember to post in the correct topic and thread
* Style of writing is important. Try to be short but descriptive when submitting your post. Avoid posts written in upper case or using sms-style abbreviations.
* Users may not argue a moderators decision publicly. Any and all complaints directed at a moderator must first address the moderator in question via private message.
* If you feel that a user is not following these forum guidelines please contact a moderator via private message
* If you have a question about where your topic went, write a private message to the moderator before posting a duplicate of the original topic.
* If a thread has run its course and posts have begun repeating themes a thread may be closed.

Openwear reserves the right to remove any type of inappropriate import or content and may result in suspension or account termination.