- Treat everyone with respect and kindness.
- Be thoughtful in how you communicate.
- Don't be destructive or inflammatory.
- If you encounter an issue, please mail bisontech0@gmail.com.
Biscontech community includes people from many different backgrounds from all parts of Mexico. Bisontech's contributors are committed to providing a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment for all, regardless of age, major, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion, sexuality, or similar personal characteristic.
The first goal of the Code of Conduct is to specify a baseline standard of behavior so that people with different social values and communication styles can communicate effectively, productively, and respectfully.
The second goal is to provide a mechanism for resolving conflicts in the community when they arise.
The third goal of the Code of Conduct is to make our community welcoming to people from different backgrounds. Diversity is critical in order for us to build a thriving community; for Bisontech to be successful, it needs developers from all backgrounds.
With that said, a healthy community must allow for disagreement and debate. The Code of Conduct is not a mechanism for people to silence others with whom they disagree.
If you join in or contribute to Bisontech in any way, you are encouraged to follow the Code of Conduct while doing so.
Explicit enforcement of the Code of Conduct applies everyone of our members in our community wether in online or in-person meetings, workshops and events including:
- Our Discord Server
- All our Events like Friday Tech Talks, Conferences, Workshops & More
- The GitHub projects
- Community Meetings
These are the values to which people in the Bisontech community should aspire.
- 👩🏻🤝🧑🏻 Be friendly and welcoming
- ⏱ Be patient
- Remember that people have varying communication styles and not everyone of us use the same words with the same context.
- 💭 Be thoughtful
- Productive communication requires effort. Think about how your words will be interpreted.
- Remember that sometimes it is best to refrain entirely from commenting.
- 🤍 Be respectful
- In particular, respect differences of opinion.
- 💆♀️💆♂️ Be charitable
- Interpret the arguments of others in good faith, do not seek to disagree.
- When we do disagree, try to understand why.
- 🚫 Avoid destructive behavior:
- Derailing: stay on topic; if you want to talk about something else, start a new conversation.
- Unconstructive criticism: don't merely condemn the current state of affairs; offer—or at least solicit—suggestions as to how things may be improved. Remember that we're not perfect, but we can become the best version of us.
- Snarking (pithy, unproductive, sniping comments)
- Discussing potentially offensive or sensitive issues; this all too often leads to unnecessary conflict.
- Microaggressions: brief and commonplace verbal, behavioral, and environmental indignities that communicate hostile, derogatory or negative slights and insults to a person or group.
People are complicated. You should expect to be misunderstood and to misunderstand others; when this inevitably occurs, resist the urge to be defensive or assign blame. Try not to take offense where no offense was intended. Give people the benefit of the doubt. Even if the intent was to provoke, do not rise to it. It is the responsibility of all parties to de-escalate conflict when it arises.
These actions are explicitly forbidden in Bisontech spaces:
- 😵 Expressing or provoking:
- insulting, demeaning, hateful, or threatening remarks;
- discrimination based on age, nationality, race, (dis)ability, gender (identity or expression), sexuality, religion, or similar personal characteristic;
- bullying or systematic harassment;
- unwelcome sexual advances, including sexually explicit content.
- 📢 Advertisement for events, companies, organizations, etc - unless specifically given permission by Bisontech.
- You can send a DM to one of the members of Bisontech in Discord or you can send a message to our official page in Facebook, we'll check it out and gladly help you with everything we can.
- 🚯 Posting spam-like content that disrupts the environment of the community.
Please understand that speech and actions have consequences, and unacceptable behavior will not be tolerated. When you participate in areas where the code of conduct applies, you should act in the spirit of the Community Values. If you conduct yourself in a way that is explicitly forbidden by the Code of Conduct, you will be warned and asked to stop, and your messages may be removed by community moderators. Repeated offenses may result in a temporary or permanent ban from the community.
- On your first offense, you will receive a written notice from one of our community moderators. Depending on the degree of the reported behavior, you may be asked to apologize, either in public or directly to the party that you have offended.
- On a second offense, you will be temporarily removed from the community. The period of the temporary ban may vary from 3 days to a month, decided based on the seriousness of the reported behavior. Please note that this ban does not indicate that you are no longer welcomed in the community - it represents an official warning for your behavior.
- On a third offense, you may be asked to leave the community. Your account may be suspended for an indefinite amount of time, and you may be publicly identified.
This procedure only serves as a general guideline for moderation & enforcement of our community conduct. Under all circumstances, the Bisontech team members may take any action we deem appropriate, including immediate removal from the community. Being banned from the Bisontech community may also prevent you from participating in our community events, including but not restricted to: local meetings, hackathons, challenges, tournaments and more.
Please understand that we will not restrict your ability to contact the Code of Conduct Bisontech Team Members under any circumstance. If you have any questions or concerns about our decision, please reach out to us directly. If your Discord or Facebook account is under suspension, email us directly at bisontech0@gmail.com.
The Bisontech Team Members is responsible for handling conduct-related issues. Their mission is to de-escalate conflicts and try to resolve issues to the satisfaction of all parties. For all projects related to and/or maintained by Bisontech. The specific team member(s) handling each violation depend on the location and nature of the issue.
If you encounter a conduct-related issue, you should report it to the Bisontech Team Members using the process described below. Do not post about the issue publicly or try to rally sentiment against a particular individual or group.
- Mail bisontech0@gmail.com
- Your message will reach the Bisontech Team.
- Reports are confidential within the Bisontech Team Members.
- Should you choose to remain anonymous then the Bisontech Team Members cannot notify you of the outcome of your report.
- You may contact a member of the group directly if you do not feel comfortable contacting the group as a whole. That member will then raise the issue with the Bisontech Team Members as a whole, preserving the privacy of the reporter (if desired).
- If your report concerns a member of the Bisontech Team they will be recused from the team discussions of the report.
- The Bisontech Team Members will strive to handle reports with discretion and sensitivity, to protect the privacy of the involved parties, and to avoid conflicts of interest.
- You should receive a response within 48 hours (likely sooner). (Should you choose to contact a single Bisontech Team member, it may take longer to receive a response.)
- The team will meet to review the incident and determine what happened.
- With the permission of person reporting the incident, the team may reach out to other community members for more context.
- The team will reach a decision as to how to act. These may include:
- Nothing.
- A request for a private or public apology.
- A private or public warning.
- An imposed vacation (for instance, asking someone to abstain for a week from the Discord or a GitHub project).
- A permanent or temporary ban from some or all Bisontech spaces.
- The team will reach out to the original reporter to let them know the decision.
- Appeals to the decision may be made to the team, or to any of its members directly.
Note that the goal of the Code of Conduct and the Bisontech Team Members is to resolve conflicts in the most harmonious way possible. We hope that in most cases issues may be resolved through polite discussion and mutual agreement. Bannings and other forceful measures are to be employed only as a last resort.
Changes to the Code of Conduct should be proposed by creating an issue or making a pull request to this document.
This was adapted from Go's Code of Conduct ant the GitHub Campus Experts Code of Conduct. It is to be noted that many parts of Go's Code of Conduct are adopted from the Code of Conduct documents of the Django, FreeBSD, and Rust projects 👀.