The Open Source in Energy Access (OSEA) 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 OSEA a positive, successful, and growing community.
Members of the OSEA community are open, considerate, and respectful. Behaviours 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 enhancement proposals, 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 OSEA community. We're thoughtful 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, as the 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 OSEA 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.
Every member of our community has the right to have their identity respected. The OSEA 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.
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 (eg, 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.
No weapons are allowed at OSEA events. Weapons include but are not limited to explosives (including fireworks), guns, and large knives such as those used for hunting or display, as well as any other item used for the purpose of causing injury or harm to others. Anyone seen in possession of one of these items will be asked to leave immediately, and will only be allowed to return without the weapon.
If a participant engages in behavior that violates this code of conduct, the OSEA community 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.
Thank you for helping make this a welcoming, friendly community for everyone.
This Code of Conduct applies to the following people at events hosted by the OSEA community:
- staff
- speakers
- panelists
- tutorial or workshop leaders
- poster presenters
- people invited to meetings or summits
- exhibitors
- organizers
- volunteers
- all attendees
The Code of Conduct applies in official venue event spaces, including:
- exhibit hall or vendor tabling area
- panel and presentation rooms
- hackathon or sprint rooms
- tutorial or workshop rooms
- poster session rooms
- summit or meeting rooms
- staff areas
- con suite
- meal areas
- party suites
- walkways, hallways, elevators, and stairs that connect any of the above spaces
The Code of Conduct applies to interactions with official event accounts on social media spaces and phone applications, including:
- comments made on official conference phone apps
- 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. Each event is required to provide a Code of Conduct committee that receives, evaluates, and acts on incident reports. Each event is required to provide contact information for the committee to attendees. The event Code of Conduct committee may (but is not required to) ask for advice from the OSEA Code of Conduct work group.
This Code of Conduct applies to the following online spaces:
- OSEA Discord server
- Code repositories, issue trackers, and pull requests made against any OSEA controlled GitHub organization
- Any other online space administered by the OSEA community
This Code of Conduct applies to the following people in official OSEA online spaces:
- OSEA Members, including Fellows
- admins of the online space
- maintainers
- reviewers
- contributors
- all community members
Each online space listed above is required to provide the following information to the OSEA Code of Conduct work group:
- contact information for any administrators/moderators
Each online space listed above is encouraged to provide the following information to community members:
- a welcome message with a link to this Code of Conduct and the contact information for making an incident report.
The OSEA Code of Conduct work group will receive and evaluate incident reports from the online communities listed above. The OSEA Code of Conduct work group 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 OSEA Code of Conduct work group may choose to notify the OSEA board.
If you believe that someone is violating the code of conduct, or have any other concerns, please contact a member of the OSEA Code of Conduct work group immediately. They can be reached by emailing [email protected]
This Code of Conduct is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
This Code of Conduct is based on the Code of Conduct of the Python Software Foundation which was forked from the example policy from the Geek Feminism wiki, created by the Ada Initiative and other volunteers, which is under a Creative Commons Zero license.
Additional new language and modifications were created by Sage Sharp of Otter Tech.
Language was incorporated from the following Codes of Conduct:
- Affect Conf Code of Conduct, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
- Citizen Code of Conduct, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
- Contributor Covenant version 1.4, licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
- Django Project Code of Conduct, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
- LGBTQ in Tech Slack Code of Conduct, licensed under a Creative Commons Zero License.
- PyCon 2018 Code of Conduct, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
- Rust Code of Conduct