Code of Conduct

Last modified on 11 March 2024, version 20240311

Purpose

Interaction.Site believes our community should be truly welcoming for everyone. As such, we are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all.

This Code of Conduct is adapted from the Contributor Covenant, version 2.1, available at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct.html.

Community Impact Guidelines were inspired by Mozilla’s code of conduct enforcement ladder.

We made some additions to fit our community, based on other existing Code of Conduct, see at the bottom of the page. The additions to the Contributor Covenant are in italic characters and followed by an asterisk*.

This code of conduct outlines our expectations for participant behaviour as well as the consequences for unacceptable behaviour. It applies to our online community as well as during our ISLE (Interaction Site Live Events), and between members on their platforms.

We invite all members, staff, partners and other participants to help us realise a safe and positive experience for everyone.

Our Pledge

We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation in our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, sexual identity and orientation, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion (or lack thereof*), and other identifying characteristics*.

We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and healthy community.

Our Standards

Examples of behavior that contributes to a positive environment for our community include:

  • Being welcoming,considerate, respectful, and collaborative. Use inclusive language *
  • Demonstrating empathy and kindness toward other people
  • Being respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences
  • Giving and gracefully accepting constructive feedback
  • Accepting responsibility and apologizing to those affected by our mistakes, and learning from the experience
  • Focusing on what is best not just for us as individuals, but for the overall community
  • Being respectful of others’ positions, skills, commitments, and efforts *
  • Be mindful of your fellow participants. Alert administrators if you notice a dangerous situation or someone in distress *
  • Participate in an authentic and active way. In doing so, you help to create a better experience and make it your own *

Examples of unacceptable behavior include:

  • Unsolicited advertising or spam, as well as intimidating, harassing, abusive, discriminatory, derogatory or demeaning conduct by any Interaction.Site participant online or at related events. In public or in private *
  • Language, actions or imagery that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence, emotional, or physical harm against an individual or a group of people. Promotion of hate speech, weapons and war *
  • The use of sexualized language or imagery, and unwelcome* sexual attention or advances of any kind, inappropriate contact*, promotion of porn*
  • Trolling, insulting or derogatory comments, and personal, political or religious* attacks
  • Demeaning, discriminatory or harassing behaviour and speech *
  • Public or private harassment
  • Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or email address, without their explicit permission
  • Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting
  • Personal insults, especially those using racist, ableist, ageist, homophobic, or sexist terms *
  • Defaming an individual or group, or violating any trademarks or copyrighted material *
  • Publishing private or identifying information communication without explicit permission *
  • Dismissing or attacking inclusion-oriented requests *
  • Continual disruption of talks, workshops, or other events *
  • Offensive comments related to race/ethnicity or national origin, sex or gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness or neurotye, physical appearance, body size, caste, age, or religion (or lack thereof) *
  • Threats or acts of violence *
  • Deliberate intimidation *
  • Encouraging any of the above behaviour *

Enforcement Responsibilities

Community leaders are responsible for clarifying and enforcing our standards of acceptable behavior and will take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any behavior that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.

Community leaders have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, and will communicate reasons for moderation decisions when appropriate.

Scope

This Code of Conduct applies within all community spaces, and also applies when an individual is officially representing the community in public spaces. Examples of representing our community include using an official email address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed representative at an online or offline event.

We expect all Interaction.Site members, staff, partners and other participants to abide by this code of conduct at all time. *

If you are subject to unacceptable behaviour, notice that someone else is being subject to unacceptable behaviour, or have any other concerns, please notify an administrator as soon as possible. *

You can email us at hello+moderation@interaction.site. *

Enforcement

Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported to the community leaders responsible for enforcement at hello+moderation@interaction.site. All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly.

All community leaders are obligated to respect the privacy and security of the reporter of any incident.

Enforcement Guidelines

Community leaders will follow these Community Impact Guidelines in determining the consequences for any action they deem in violation of this Code of Conduct:

1. Correction

Community Impact: Use of inappropriate language or other behavior deemed unprofessional or unwelcome in the community.

Consequence: A private, written warning from community leaders, providing clarity around the nature of the violation and an explanation of why the behavior was inappropriate. A public apology may be requested.

2. Warning

Community Impact: A violation through a single incident or series of actions.

Consequence: A warning with consequences for continued behavior. No interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, for a specified period of time. This includes avoiding interactions in community spaces as well as external channels like social media. Violating these terms may lead to a temporary or permanent ban.

3. Temporary Ban

Community Impact: A serious violation of community standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior.

Consequence: A temporary ban from any sort of interaction or public communication with the community for a specified period of time. No public or private interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, is allowed during this period. Violating these terms may lead to a permanent ban.

4. Permanent Ban

Community Impact: Demonstrating a pattern of violation of community standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior, harassment of an individual, or aggression toward or disparagement of classes of individuals.

Consequence: A permanent ban from any sort of public interaction within the community.

License and Attribution

This Code of Conduct is an edited version based on the links below. Most of the original versions are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (2.0, 3.0 or 4.0) license.

see: *

https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct/
https://learn.wordpress.org/online-workshops/code-of-conduct/
https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/wordcamp-organizer/planning-details/code-of-conduct/
https://opensource.com/code-of-conduct
Opensourcebrigde Code of Conduct (Archive)
https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Conference_anti-harassment/Policy
https://github.com/stumpsyn

https://opensource.com/code-of-conduct mentions:
“Some language in this Code of Conduct was incorporated from the following Codes of Conduct:
https://www.python.org/psf/conduct/
https://geekfeminismdotorg.wordpress.com/about/code-of-conduct/
https://dev.to/code-of-conduct/
https://events.drupal.org/code-conduct/
https://www.writespeakcode.com/code-of-conduct/“