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The Spyderisk Open Project is a friendly community and welcomes contributions. This document outlines both expected and prohibited behaviour.
The rest of this document is detail which supports the following three points:
- Spyderisk participants are to be respectful and direct with each other
- We will not tolerate bullying, racism, sexism or constant domineering behaviour
- No personal attacks, and generally stay focussed on what we are trying to achieve
That's it, just those three main things. This Code of Conduct been proved to be necessary, but we don't think a long document is required.
Everyone, regardless of diversity dimensions including:
- Gender, identity or expression
- Age
- Socioeconomic status
- Sex or sexual orientation
- Family status
- Race and/or caste and/or ethnicity
- National origin
- Religion
- Native or other languages
- Working with other Spyderisk community participants virtually or co-located
- Representing Spyderisk at public events
- Representing Spyderisk in social media
The following behaviours are expected of all Spyderisk community participants:
Value each other’s ideas, styles and viewpoints. Disagreement is no excuse for bad manners. Be open to different possibilities and to being wrong. Take responsibility, so if someone says they have been harmed through your words or actions, listen carefully, apologise sincerely, and correct the behaviour.
We must be able to speak directly when we disagree and when we think we need to improve. We cannot withhold hard truths. Doing so respectfully is hard, doing so when others don’t seem to be listening is harder, and hearing such comments when can be harder still.
Seek diverse perspectives. Diversity of views and of people gives better results. Encourage all voices. Help new perspectives be heard and listen actively. If you find yourself dominating a discussion, step back and give other people a chance. Observe how much time is taken up by dominant members of the group.
Be respectful of people with different cultural practices, attitudes and beliefs. Work to eliminate your own biases, prejudices and discriminatory practices. Think of others’ needs from their point of view. Use preferred titles (including pronouns). Respect people’s right to privacy and confidentiality. Be open to learning from and educating others as well as educating yourself.
The following behaviours are unacceptable, as should be obvious to any reasonable person:
Offline or online, including incitement of violence or encouraging a person to commit self-harm. This also includes posting or threatening to post other people’s personal data (“doxxing”) online.
Hurtful or harmful language related to any dimension of diversity is not acceptable.
This includes deliberately referring to someone by a gender that they do not identify with, or questioning an individual's gender identity. If you are unsure if a word is derogatory, don't use that word. When asked to stop, stop the behaviour.
Unwelcome sexual attention online or offline, or unwelcome physical contact is not acceptable. This includes sexualised comments, jokes or imagery as well as inappropriate touching, groping, or sexual advances. This also includes physically blocking or intimidating another person. Physical contact or simulated physical contact (potentially including emojis) without affirmative consent is not acceptable.
Bad behaviour from any Spyderisk community participant can't be tolerated. Intentional efforts to exclude people (except as part of a consequence of these guidelines) from Spyderisk activities are not acceptable.
Reports of harassment/discrimination will be promptly and thoroughly investigated by the people responsible for the safety of the space, event or activity, with a view to taking action.
Anyone asked to stop unacceptable behaviour is expected to stop immediately. Violation of these guidelines can result in you being ask to leave an event or online space, either temporarily or for the duration of the event, or being banned from participation in spaces, or future events and activities.
Participants who abuse the reporting process will be considered to be in violation. False reporting, especially to retaliate or exclude, will not be accepted or tolerated.
If you believe you're experiencing unacceptable behaviour as outlined above please contact one of the current authors in the CONTRIBUTORS file, or send a message to team@spyderisk.org.
You should certainly get a reply. After determining a precise description of your situation, they will review and determine next steps.
Please also report to us if you observe someone else in distress or violations of these guidelines.
If you feel you have been unfairly accused of violating these guidelines, please follow the same reporting process.
This document is (c) 2024 The Spyderisk Licensors, under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
Lightly adapted from the LumoSQL project, which in turn heavily adapted and compressed version 3.1 of the Mozilla Participation Guidelines, released under the same license.