code-of-conduct-examples

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This code of conduct examples page is for documenting examples of liberally licensed conference "Code of Conduct" pages that we can keep in mind as we craft and iterate the IndieWebCamp code-of-conduct.

Examples

Most liberally licensed first.

CC0

CC0 codes of conduct provide the maximum flexibility for re-use.

Positively framed and community empowering:

• IndieWebCamp Code of Conduct - IndieWebCamp's code of conduct is naturally licensed CC0 like the rest of the wiki.
• Yes and Yes Yes: Code of Conduct - based on IndieWebCamp's code of conduct!
• W3C Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct thru 2020-07-15 (The version published the next day switched to a proprietary W3C license)

Others:

• Google Events Anti-Harassment Policy
• Geek Feminism Wiki: Conference anti-harassment/Policy
  • Conference anti-harassment resources
  • Conference anti-harassment/Responding to reports
• Geek Feminism Wiki: Community anti-harassment/Policy, an alternative to the conference anti-harassment policy for groups that do not have in-person events
• CodeOfConduct4Lib
• GitHub Event Code of Conduct (markdown source).
• GitHub Community Forum Code of Conduct (markdown source).
  • Seems to share copy with the GitHub Community Guidelines (markdown source).
• Bang Bang Con's (!!Con) code of conduct
  • including Recurse Center's social rules

CC BY

CC-BY-4.0:

• https://whatwg.org/code-of-conduct
• https://2018.xoxofest.com/conduct

CC-BY-3.0:

• Django Code of Conduct
• dConstruct 2014 Code of conduct
• DrupalCon Portland 2013 Code of Conduct
• PyCon 2012: Code of Conduct
• PyCon 2013: Code of Conduct
  • Attendee Procedure for Handling Harassment
  • Staff Procedure for Handling Harassment

MIT

MIT:

• Contributor Covenant

CC BY SA

CC-BY-SA 3.0:

Positively framed and community empowering:

• DrupalCon Code of Conduct
• Open Source Bridge Code of Conduct
  • WordCamp Belgrade based on OSBridge Code of Conduct
• Stumptown Syndicate Policies (GitHub repo)
  • Citizen Code of Conduct (GitHub)
    • Official version at http://citizencodeofconduct.org/ offline. Last archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200330154000/http://citizencodeofconduct.org/
  • Syndicate Code of Conduct (derived from above Citizen Code of Conduct)
  • Reporting Guidelines
• BRUCON anti-harassment policy - good write-up of why to write "a policy from scratch"
• Mozilla Community Participation Guidelines (CPG)
• Haskell Now!’s Code of Conduct
  • Haskell Now!’s Outreach Resources

Others:

• Wikimania 2012 Friendly space policy
• Wikimedia Friendly space policy for Wikimedia Foundation technical events

GFDL

GFDL:

• openSUSE:Conference code of conduct

W3C Permissive Document License

• [Positive Work Environment at W3C: Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct https://www.w3.org/Consortium/cepc/] (2020-07-16 to present. See also prior CC0 Version)

All Rights Reserved

All Rights Reserved:

• HTML5 Developer Conference: Anti-Harassment Policy
  • http://html5devconf.com/antiharassmentpolicy.pdf (Full Anti-Harassment Policy)

Unknown License

Unknown license (presumed all rights reserved):

• http://oreilly.com/conferences/code-of-conduct.html
  • see also: http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/07/sexual-harassment-at-technical.html
• http://www.open-sf.org/conduct.html
• http://plone.org/foundation/materials/foundation-resolutions/code-of-conduct
  • http://plone.org/news/conferencecode
• JSConf Code of Conduct
• Conference Code of Conduct (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License)
  • from: http://2012.jsconf.us/#/about and The Ada Initiative
• Steel City Ruby Anti-harassment policy
• Scrutable forum rules
  • The “All Lives Matter” rule is particularly well framed and phrased here - very targetted whataboutery removal
• Mastodon.social Server Rules
• Mastodon GitHub project Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct
• Drupal Code of Conduct
• On Respect: subset of Hacker News (a particular thread) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40418956

  All: if you're going to comment in this thread, please review the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Make sure that your comment is following them, and that you are posting in the intended spirit: intellectually curious, respectful conversation.

  "Respectful" here means respectful to the people who are wrong (in your view) and most respectful to the people who are most wrong (in your view). If you can't do that, that's ok, but please don't post until you can. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

  Hellish flamewars in deep subthreads are not ok. I'm going to lower the bar for banning accounts that do this, so please don't do this. If you're hotly indignant, step away from the keyboard until that changes. Nobody 'wins' on the internet anyway, and it's not worth destroying this community for. Not to mention your heart.

2013

2013 incidents:

• http://tantek.com/2013/035/t4/sazzy-you-are-awesome-speaking-writing
• http://tantek.com/2013/037/t1/more-speakingup
• http://tantek.com/2013/037/t3/speakingup-thank-you-we-must-speak-up-act-fix-this

Related

Related discussion of incidents, needs for codes of conduct at conferences, etc.

• http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents
• 2012-06-14 Greta Christina: Sexual Harassment, and the OpenSF Conference Code of Conduct
• 2011-08-04 Jacob Kaplan-Moss: Why conferences need a code of conduct
• 2013-01-24 Ashe Dryden: "Increasing Diversity at Your Conference"
• 2012-12-03 Python Software Foundation News: PSF Moves to Require Code of Conduct for Conference Grants
• 2011-07-24 Tim O'Reilly: Sexual Harassment at Technical Conferences: A Big No-No
• The Ada Initiative : Conference anti-harassment policy
  • Note: criticism and apparent conflict of Ada Initiative actions vs. policy[1][2][3][4].
• Geek Feminism Wiki: Conference anti-harassment/Adoption
• BGG.CON 2012 Important Information: ("One final note" under "Other Info")
• The Contributor Covenant has an interesting issue discussing wether a CoC is the right place to establish enforcement: CoralineAda/contributor_covenant#17
• photography_policy

See Also

• https://samsungcreate.com/code-of-conduct
• https://www.djangoproject.com/conduct/
• https://viewsourceconf.org/code-of-conduct/
• https://www.ashedryden.com/blog/codes-of-conduct-101-faq
• https://www.ubuntu.com/community/code-of-conduct
• http://tilde.town/wiki/conduct.html
• https://www.python.org/community/diversity/
• Stack Overflow Code of Conduct
  • Inspired by CoCs from The Coral Project and Buffer (on this wiki).
• https://beyondtellerrand.com/code-of-conduct
• https://ethics.acm.org/2018-code-draft-3/
• The Code Manifesto, proposed to be used by PHP-FIG
• The above was specifically chosen over things like Contributor Covenant because “the Manifesto provides guidelines of good behavior rather than an enumeration of bad behavior.”
• CC-BY-SA 3.0 example: WordCamp US 2019: Code of Conduct derived from http://opensourcebridge.org/about/code-of-conduct/
• Praise as a great resource: https://twitter.com/jcolman/status/1220418813780484097
  • "Want to write a code of conduct but don’t know where to start? These great resources can help you write one—or improve the one you already have.
    
    https://confcodeofconduct.com/
    
    https://medium.com/uplifttogether/how-to-write-a-great-code-of-conduct-2d32448c96a
    
    https://subfictional.com/the-complex-reality-of-adopting-a-meaningful-code-of-conduct/
    
    https://indieweb.org/code-of-conduct-examples" @jcolman January 23, 2020
• American Library Association
• CC-BY-SA 3.0 WPCampus
• https://github.com/beginner-corp/policy/blob/main/begin-community-code-of-conduct.md
• https://developer.chrome.com/blog/standards-behavior/
• https://www.lotrfanmb.com/conduct.html
• https://hackers.town/@thraeryn/109388180266512007