[Issue 419] Add Code of Conduct and Community Guidelines (#432)

* Add CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md and COMMUNITY_GUIDELINES.md

CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

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+# Code of Conduct
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+As contributors and maintainers of this project, we pledge to respect all people who contribute through reporting issues, posting feature requests, updating documentation, submitting pull requests or patches, and other activities.
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+We are committed to making participation in this project a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of the level of experience, gender, gender identity, expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, or religion.
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+Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include the use of sexual language or imagery, derogatory comments or personal attacks, trolling, public or private harassment, insults, or other unprofessional conduct.
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+Project maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned with this Code of Conduct.
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+Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported by opening an issue or contacting one or more of the project maintainers.
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+This Code of Conduct is adapted from the Contributor Covenant version 1.0.0, available at http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/0/0 .

COMMUNITY_GUIDELINES.md

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+# Community Organization and Governance
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+The grants.gov team is taking a community-first and open source approach to the product development of this tool. We believe government software should be made in the open and be built and licensed such that anyone can download the code, run it themselves without paying money to third parties or using proprietary software, and use it as they will.
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+We know that we can learn from a wide variety of communities, including those who will use or will be impacted by the tool, who are experts in technology, or who have experience with similar technologies deployed in other spaces. We are dedicated to creating forums for continuous conversation and feedback to help shape the design and development of the tool.
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+We also recognize capacity building as a key part of involving a diverse open source community. We are doing our best to use accessible language, provide technical and process documents in multiple languages, and offer support to community members with a wide variety of backgrounds and skillsets. If you have ideas for how we can improve or add to our capacity building efforts and methods for welcoming people into our community, please let us know by filing an issue on our GitHub repository.
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+## Principles 
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+Principles and guidelines for participating in our open source community are linked belowhere. Please read them before joining or starting a conversation in this repo or one of the channels listed below. All community members and participants are expected to adhere to the community guidelines and code of conduct when participating in community spaces including: code repositories, communication channels and venues, and events. 
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+These principles guide our data, product, and process decisions, architecture, and approach. These guidelines are inspired by the [Justice40 Community Guidelines](https://github.com/usds/justice40-tool/blob/main/COMMUNITY_GUIDELINES.md).
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+* Open means transparent and participatory.
+* We take a modular and modern approach to software development.
+* We build open-source software and open-source processes.
+* We value ease of implementation.
+* Fostering community includes building capacity and making our software and processes accessible to participants with diverse backgrounds and skillsets.
+* Data (and data science) is as important as software and process. We build open data sets where possible.
+* We strive for transparency for algorithms and places we might be introducing bias.
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+All community members are expected to adhere to our [Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).
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+## Community Guidelines
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+* When participating in the Grants Equity open source community conversations and spaces, we ask individuals to follow the following guidelines:
+* When joining a conversation for the first time, please introduce yourself by providing a brief intro that includes:
+  * your related organization (if applicable)
+  * your pronouns, if you would like to share those
+  * disclosure of any current or potential financial interest in this work
+  * your superpower, and how you hope to use it for this project
+* Embrace a culture of learning, and educate each other. We are all entering this conversation from different starting points and with different backgrounds. There are no dumb questions.
+* Take space and give space. We strive to create an equitable environment in which all are welcome and able to participate. We hope individuals feel comfortable voicing their opinions and providing contributions and will do our best to recognize and make space for individuals who may be struggling to find space here. Likewise, we expect individuals to recognize when they are taking up significant space and take a step back to allow room for others.
+* Be present when joining synchronous conversations such as our community chat. Why be here if you're not going to be here?
+* Be respectful.