{"id":85769,"date":"2021-05-04T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudblogs.microsoft.com\/opensource\/?p=85769"},"modified":"2025-06-23T07:42:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T14:42:04","slug":"prioritizing-inclusion-our-commitment-to-building-healthy-open-source-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/04\/prioritizing-inclusion-our-commitment-to-building-healthy-open-source-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Prioritizing inclusion\u2014our commitment to building healthy open source communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Microsoft products and services run on trust, an extension of which is our commitment to building healthy open source communities. It is critically important that in our mission to empower everyone to achieve more through open source\u2014safety, privacy, and wellbeing of our open source collaborations be at the forefront.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this in mind, we want to announce our most recent update to our Open Source Code of Conduct. This update replaces the previous document, which was based on the now <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/todogroup\/opencodeofconduct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">archived TODO group version<\/a>, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.contributor-covenant.org\/version\/2\/0\/code_of_conduct\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contributor&#8217;s Covenant 2.0<\/a>. 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This includes a requirement that all projects we sponsor through the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft-sponsorships\/microsoft-foss-fund\/blob\/main\/README.md\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FOSS Fund<\/a> also have up-to-date and enforced Codes of Conduct. 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