What would you write in a consitution (law book) for a programmers' country?
- by Developer Art
After we have got our great place to talk about professional matters and sozialize online - on SO, I believe the next logical step would be to found our own country!
I invite you all to participate and bring together your available resources. We will buy an island, better even a group of island so that we could establish states like .NET territories, Java land, Linux republic etc. We will build a society of programmers (girls - we need you too).
To the organizational side, we're going to need some constitution or a law book. I suggest we write it together. I make it a wiki as it should be a cooperative effort.
I'll open the work.
Section 1. Programmers' rights.
Every citizen has a right to an Internet connection 24/7.
Every citizen can freely choose the field of interest
Section 2. Programmers' obligations.
Every citizen must embrace the changing nature of the profession and constanly educate himself
Section 3. Law enforcement.
Code duplication when can be avoided is punished by limiting the bandwith speed to 64Kbit for a period of one week.
Using ugly hacks instead of refactoring code is punished by cutting the Internet connection for a period of one month.
Usage of technologies older than 5/10 years is punished by restricting the web access to the sites last updated 5/10 years ago for a period of one month.
Please feel free to modify and extend the list. We'll need to have it ready before we proceed formally with the country foundation.
A purchase fund will be established shortly. Everyone is invited to participate.
