In addition to the informal fun-governing Hacks 'R' Us Policy, we also all agree to + follow and respect our Code of Conduct, a derivative of Community + Covenant.
+Community Covenant
+ +Our Goal
+ +This community is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone. We do not tolerate + harassment of participants in any form.
+ +Applicability and Scope
+ +This code of conduct applies to all of this community's spaces, including public channels, private + channels and direct messages, both online and off. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be + sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the administrators.
+ +Where the community's Policy and this Code of Conduct could be seen to be in conflict, this Code of + Conduct takes precedence.
+ +Toward a Welcoming and Safe Environment
+ +We hope to create an environment in which diverse individuals can collaborate and interact in a positive + and affirming way. Examples of behaviour that contributes to creating this sort of environment include: +
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- Using welcoming and inclusive language +
- Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences +
- Gracefully accepting constructive criticism +
- Focusing on what is best for the overall community +
- Showing empathy towards other community members +
Anti-Harassment Statement
+ +This community will not tolerate harassment of any kind. Examples of harassment include:
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- Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, + disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, pregnancy status, veteran + status, political affiliation, marital status, body size, age, race, national origin, ethnic origin, + nationality, immigration status, language, religion or lack thereof, or other identity marker. This + includes anti-Indigenous/Nativeness and anti-Blackness. +
- Unwelcome comments regarding a person's lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to + food, health, parenting, relationships, drugs, and employment. +
- Deliberate misgendering, using inappropriate pronouns, or use of "dead" or rejected names. +
- Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behaviour in spaces where they're not appropriate. +
- Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, textual descriptions like "hug" or "backrub") + without consent or after a request to stop. +
- Threats of violence. +
- Incitement of violence towards any individual or group, including encouraging a person to commit + suicide or to engage in self-harm. +
- Deliberate intimidation. +
- Stalking or following - online or in the physical world. +
- Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes. +
- Sustained disruption of discussion. +
- Unwelcome sexual attention. +
- Patterns of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of + intimacy with others. +
- Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease. +
- Deliberate "outing" of any aspect of a person's identity without their consent except as necessary + to protect vulnerable people from intentional abuse. +
- Publication of non-harassing private communication. +
- Jokes that resemble the above, such as "hipster racism", still count as harassment even if meant + satirically or ironically. +
If you have questions or concerns about these issues please feel free to message a member of the conduct + group, ask in the #policy channel, or ask for an opportunity to explore the issue with a moderator and + volunteers.
+ +Reporting
+ +If you are being harassed by a member of our community, notice that someone else is being harassed, or + have any other concerns, please contact any of the conduct group who are in the @mods Discord + group via Direct Message. If the person who is harassing you is on the conduct group, they will not be + involved in handling or resolving the incident.
+ +The conduct group will respond to any complaint as promptly as possible we can. If you do not get a + timely response (for example, if no members of the @mods group are currently online) then please put + your personal safety and well-being first, and consider logging out. Messages left for offline members + of the team on Discord will be responded to asynchronously as soon as possible. +
+ +This code of conduct applies to our community's spaces, but if you are being harassed by a member of our + community outside our spaces, we still want to know about it. We will take all good-faith reports of + harassment by our members, especially the conduct group, seriously. This includes harassment outside + our spaces and harassment that took place at any point in time. The conduct group reserves the right to + exclude people from the community based on their past behaviour, including behaviour outside of our + spaces + and behaviour towards people who are not in this community.
+ +In order to protect volunteers from abuse and burnout, we reserve the right to reject any report we + believe to have been made in bad faith. Reports intended to silence legitimate criticism may be + disregarded without response.
+ +Enforcement Process
+ +Every code of conduct violation report will be treated with seriousness and care. If a member's immediate + safety and security is threatened, an individual conduct group member may take any action that they deem + appropriate, up to and including temporarily banning the offender from the community. In less urgent + situations, at least two conduct group members will discuss the offense and mutually arrive at a + suitable response, which will be shared with the offender privately. Whatever the resolution that they + decide upon, the decision of the conduct group members involved in a violation case will be considered + final.
+ +We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting victims of abuse. At our + discretion, we may publicly name a person about whom we've received harassment complaints, or privately + warn third parties about them, if we believe that doing so will increase the safety of our members or + the general public. We will not name harassment victims without their affirmative consent.
+ +Consequences
+ +Participants asked to stop any harassing behaviour are expected to comply immediately. If a participant + engages in harassing behaviour, the conduct group may take any action they deem appropriate, up to and + including expulsion from the community and identification of the participant as a harasser to other + members. At the discretion of the conduct group team, or by request, one or more of the parties involved + may request to discuss the violation and how to avoid similar situations in the future.
+ +Acknowledgements
+ +This Code of Conduct is adapted from the Community Covenant + (https://community-covenant.net), version 1.0, available at + https://community-covenant.net/version/1/0/. + The Community Covenant is an open source effort and is built on codes of conduct that came before it, + including the Contributor Covenant and the + LGBTQ in Tech community code of conduct.
+ +License
+ +Community Covenant by Coraline
+ Ada Ehmke is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
+ License.
Based on a work at http://community-covenant.net/.
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