code-of-conduct-examples

This 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
 * 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
 * http://citizencodeofconduct.org/ CC-BY-SA

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

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.
 * 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