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This Code of Conduct applies to all the projects that Open Knowledge Foundation hosts/organises and describes the standards of behaviour that we expect all our partners to observe when taking part in our projects. We expect all voices to be welcomed at our events and strive to empower everyone to feel able to participate fully.
The following behaviours are expected from all project participants, including Open Knowledge Foundation staff, project partners, and all other participants.
We do not tolerate harassment of participants at our events in any form. Harassment includes offensive verbal comments, deliberate intimidation, harassing photography or recording, inappropriate physical contact and unwanted sexual attention. Anything that makes someone feel uncomfortable could be deemed harassment. For more information and examples about what constitutes harassment, please refer to OpenCon’s Code of Conduct in Brief and the Gathering for Open Source Hardware’s examples of behaviour.
This non-exhaustive list shows examples of behaviours that are unacceptable from all participants:
Unacceptable behaviour from any participant in any public or private forum around projects we are involved in, including those with decision-making authority, will not be tolerated.
Anyone asked to stop unacceptable behaviour is expected to comply immediately.
If a participant engages in unacceptable behaviour, any action deemed appropriate will be taken, up to and including a temporary ban, permanent expulsion from participatory forums, or reporting to local law enforcement for criminal offences.
If you are subject to, or witness, unacceptable behaviour, or have any other concerns, please email conduct@okfn.org. We will handle all reports with discretion, and you can report anonymously if you wish using this form.
In your report, please do your best to include:
We will fully investigate any reports, follow up with the reportee (unless it is an anonymous report), and we will work with the reportee (unless anonymous) to decide what action to take. If the complaint is about someone on the response team, that person will recuse themselves from handling the response.
All reports will be kept confidential. When we discuss incidents with people who are reported, we will anonymize details as much as we can to protect reporter privacy. In some cases we may determine that a public statement will need to be made. If that’s the case, the identities of all victims and reporters will remain confidential unless those individuals instruct us otherwise.
This Code of Conduct is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. It draws heavily on this Mozilla Code of Conduct, the School of Data Code of Conduct, and the csv,conf Code of Conduct.