PyLadiesCon

Code of Conduct

PyLadiesCon is a community conference intended for networking and collaboration. We aim to provide a safe, inclusive, welcoming, and harassment-free for everyone in our community.

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We want all participants to have an enjoyable and fulfilling experience. Accordingly, all participants are expected to show respect and courtesy to other participants throughout the conference and at all conference-related events and activities.

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To make clear what is expected, all members of the organizing committee, attendees, speakers, organizers, sponsors, and volunteers at any PyLadiesCon event are required to conform to the following Code of Conduct as set forth by the Python Software Foundation. Organizers will enforce this code throughout the event.

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The Python community is made up of members from around the globe with a diverse set of skills, personalities, and experiences. It is through these differences that our community experiences great successes and continued growth. When you’re working with members of the community, this Code of Conduct will help steer your interactions and keep Python a positive, successful, and growing community.

Our Community

Members of the Python community are open, considerate, and respectful. Behaviors that reinforce these values contribute to a positive environment, and include:

  • Being open. Members of the community are open to collaboration, whether it’s on PEPs, patches, problems, or otherwise.
  • Focusing on what is best for the community. We’re respectful of the processes set forth in the community, and we work within them.
  • Acknowledging time and effort. We’re respectful of the volunteer efforts that permeate the Python community. We’re toughtful when addressing the efforts of others, keeping in mind that often times the labor was completed simply for the good of the community.
  • Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences. We’re receptive to constructive comments and criticism, experiences and skill sets of other members contribute to the whole of our efforts.
  • Showing empathy towards other community members. We’re attentive in our communications, whether in person or online, and we’re tactful when approaching differing views.
  • Being considerate. Members of the community are considerate of their peers – other Python users.
  • Being respectful. We’re respectful of others, their positions, their skills, their commitments, and their efforts.
  • Gracefully accepting constructive criticism. When we disagree, we are courteous in raising our issues.
  • Using welcoming and inclusive language. We’re accepting of all who wish to take part in our activities, fostering an environment where anyone can participate and everyone can make a difference.

Our Standards

Every member of our community has the right to have their identity respected. The Python community is dedicated to providing a positive experience for everyone, regardless of age, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, ethnicity, nationality, race, or religion (or lack thereof), education, or socio-economic status.

Inappropriate Behavior

Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:

  • Harassment of any participants in any form
  • Deliberate intimidation, stalking, or following
  • Logging or taking screenshots of online activity for harassment purposes
  • Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or electronic address, without explicit permission
  • Violent threats or language directed against another person
  • Incitement of violence or harassment towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm
  • Creating additional online accounts in order to harass another person or circumvent a ban
  • Sexual language and imagery in online communities or in any conference venue, including talks
  • Insults, put downs, or jokes that are based upon stereotypes, that are exclusionary, or that hold others up for ridicule
  • Excessive swearing
  • Unwelcome sexual attention or advances
  • Unwelcome physical contact, including simulated physical contact (e.g., textual descriptions like “hug” or “backrub”) without consent or after a request to stop
  • Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others
  • Sustained disruption of online community discussions, in-person presentations, or other in-person events
  • Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease
  • Other conduct that is inappropriate for a professional audience including people of many different backgrounds
  • Community members asked to stop any inappropriate behavior are expected to comply immediately.

Consequences

If a participant engages in behavior that violates this Code of Conduct, the PyLadies Code of Conduct team may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the community and community events with no refund of event tickets.

The full list of consequences for inappropriate behavior is listed in the Enforcement Procedures

Thank you for helping make this a welcoming, friendly community for everyone.

Scope

PyLadiesCon events

PyLadiesCon events

This Code of Conduct applies to the following people at PyLadiesCon:

  • speakers
  • panelists
  • tutorial or workshop leaders
  • sponsors
  • organizers
  • volunteers
  • all attendees

The Code of Conduct applies to interactions with official event accounts on social media spaces including:

  • comments made on event video hosting services
  • comments made on the official event hashtag or panel hashtags

Event organizers will enforce this code throughout the event.

PyLadiesCon online spaces

PyLadiesCon online spaces

This Code of Conduct applies to the following online spaces:

  • Code repositories, issue trackers, and pull requests made against any PyLadiesCon repository
  • Any other online space administered by PyLadiesCon

This Code of Conduct applies to the following people in official PyLadiesCon online spaces:

  • admins of the online space
  • maintainers
  • reviewers
  • contributors
  • all community members

The PyLadiesCon Code of Conduct team will receive and evaluate incident reports from the online communities listed above. The PyLadiesCon Code of Conduct team will work with online community administrators/moderators to suggest actions to take in response to a report. In cases where the administrators/moderators disagree on the suggested resolution for a report, the PyLadiesCon Code of Conduct team may choose to notify the Python Software Foundation Code of Conduct team or the Python Software Foundation board.

Our Process

Reporting an Incident

If you believe that someone is violating the code of conduct please contact a member of the Code of Conduct team. They can be reached by emailing conference_conduct@pyladies.com which is monitored by the Code of Conduct team (Mariatta, Micaela, Maria Jose, and Cheuk).

In case of a conflict of interest, you can individually contact: Mariatta Wijaya (mariatta@pyladies.com).

The organizing and Code of Conduct team will be happy to assist any attendee to feel safe for the duration of the conference. We value your attendance.

Procedure for handling incidents

License

This Code of Conduct is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Attribution