Chaotic-CX Code of Conduct

Thank you for being a part of the Chaotic-CX community. We value your participation and want everyone to have an enjoyable and fulfilling experience. Accordingly, all participants are expected to follow this Code of Conduct, and to show respect, understanding, and consideration to one another. Thank you for helping make this a welcoming, friendly community for everyone.

Scope

This Code of Conduct applies to all Chaotic-CX community spaces, including, but not limited to:

• Code repositories - github.com/chaotic-cx and github.com/chaotic-aur
• Chaotic-CX's Telegram channels and groups (including bridges to Matrix)
• Mailing *@chaotic.cx
• Community spaces hosted on chaotic.cx infrastructure

Communication channels and private conversations that are normally out of scope may be considered in scope if a Chaotic-CX participant is being stalked or harassed. Social media conversations may be considered in-scope if the incident occurred under a Chaotic-CX related hashtag, or when an official Chaotic-CX account on social media is tagged, or within any other discussion about Chaotic-CX. The Chaotic-CX's staff reserves the right to take actions against behaviors that happen in any context, if they are deemed to be relevant to the Chaotic-CX project and its participants.

All participants in Chaotic-CX community spaces are subject to the Code of Conduct. This includes founding members, staff members, corporate sponsors, and paid employees. This also includes volunteers, maintainers, leaders, contributors, contribution reviewers, issue reporters, Chaotic-CX users, and anyone participating in discussion in Chaotic-CX community spaces.

Reporting an Incident

If you believe that someone is violating the Code of Conduct, or have any other concerns, please contact coc@chaotic.cx.

Our Standards

The Chaotic-CX community is dedicated to providing a positive experience for everyone, regardless of:

• age
• body size
• caste
• citizenship
• disability
• education
• ethnicity
• familial status
• gender expression
• gender identity
• genetic information
• immigration status
• level of experience
• nationality
• personal appearance
• pregnancy
• race
• religion
• sex characteristics
• sexual orientation
• sexual identity
• socio-economic status
• tribe
• veteran status

Community Guidelines

Behaviors that contribute to creating a positive environment include:

• Be friendly. Use welcoming and inclusive language.
• Be empathetic. Be respectful of others' viewpoints and experiences.
• Be respectful. Express disagreements in a polite and constructive manner.
• Be considerate. Focus on what is best for the community. Keep discussions around technology choices constructive and respectful. Remember that decisions are often a difficult choice between competing priorities.
• Be patient and generous. If someone asks for help, it is because they need it. When documentation is available that answers the question, politely point them to it. If the question is off-topic, suggest a more appropriate online space to seek help.
• Try to be concise. Read the discussion before commenting in order to not repeat a point that has been made.

Inappropriate Behavior

We want all participants in the Chaotic-CX community have the best possible experience they can. Community members asked to stop any inappropriate behavior are expected to comply immediately.

Inappropriate behaviors include, but are not limited to:

• Deliberate intimidation, stalking, or following.
• Sustained disruption of online discussion, talks, or other events. Sustained disruption of events, online discussions, or meetings, including talks and presentations, will not be tolerated. This includes 'Talking over' or 'heckling' event speakers or influencing crowd actions that cause hostility in event sessions. Sustained disruption also includes drinking alcohol to excess or using recreational drugs to excess, or pushing others to do so.
• Harassment of people who don't drink alcohol or other legal substances. We do not tolerate derogatory comments about those who abstain from alcohol or other legal substances. We do not tolerate pushing people to drink, talking about their abstinence or preferences to others, or pressuring them to drink - physically or through jeering.
• Sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist language or otherwise exclusionary language. This includes deliberately referring to someone by a gender that they do not identify with, and/or questioning the legitimacy of an individual's gender identity. If you're unsure if a word is derogatory, don't use it. This also includes repeated subtle and/or indirect discrimination.
• Unwelcome sexual attention or behavior that contributes to a sexualized environment. This includes sexualized comments, jokes or imagery in interactions, communications or presentation materials, as well as inappropriate touching, groping, or sexual advances. Sponsors should not use sexualized images, activities, or other material. Meetup organizing staff and other volunteer organizers should not use sexualized clothing/uniforms/costumes, or otherwise create a sexualized environment.
• Unwelcome physical contact. This includes touching a person without permission, including sensitive areas such as their hair, pregnant stomach, mobility device (wheelchair, scooter, etc) or tattoos. This also includes physically blocking or intimidating another person. Physical contact or simulated physical contact (such as emojis like "kiss") without affirmative consent is not acceptable. This includes sharing or distribution of sexualized images or text.
• Violence or threats of violence. Violence and threats of violence are not acceptable - online or offline. This includes incitement of violence toward any individual, including encouraging a person to commit self-harm. This also includes posting or threatening to post other people's personally identifying information ("doxxing") online.
• Influencing or encouraging inappropriate behavior. If you influence or encourage another person to violate the Code of Conduct, you may face the same consequences as if you had violated the Code of Conduct.

Safety versus Comfort

The Chaotic-CX community prioritizes marginalized people's safety over privileged people's comfort. The following are not against the Code of Conduct.

• "Reverse"-isms, including "reverse racism," "reverse sexism," and "cisphobia"
• Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as "leave me alone," "go away," or "I'm not discussing this with you."
• Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions
• Communicating boundaries or criticizing oppressive behavior in a "tone" you don't find congenial

If you have questions about the above statements, please read GNOME Foundation's document on Supporting Diversity.

Outreach and diversity efforts directed at under-represented groups are permitted under the code of conduct. For example, a social event for women would not be classified as being outside the Code of Conduct under this provision.

Basic expectations for conduct are not covered by the "reverse-ism clause" and would be enforced irrespective of the demographics of those involved. For example, racial discrimination will not be tolerated, irrespective of the race of those involved. Nor would unwanted sexual attention be tolerated, whatever someone's gender or sexual orientation. Members of our community have the right to expect that participants in the project will uphold these standards.

If a participant engages in behavior that violates this code of conduct, the Chaotic-CX's staff may take any action they deem appropriate. In cases involving the staff or founding members the immediate action is expelishment.

Procedure for Handling Incidents

You can make a report by emailing coc@chaotic.cx.

If you make a report via email, we hope you can provide us with some information that will help us identify the reported person. If you don’t remember all the details, we still encourage you to make a report.

We encourage you to include the following information in your report:

• Your contact info (so we can get in touch with you if we need to follow up)
• Date and time of the incident
• Whether the incident is ongoing
• Which online community and which part of the online community space it occurred in
• Description of the incident
• Identifying information of the reported person such as name, online username, handle, email address, or IP address
• A link to the conversation
• Any logs or screenshots of the conversation
• Additional circumstances surrounding the incident
• Other people involved in or witnesses to the incident and their contact information or description

License

The Chaotic-CX Code of Conduct is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 Unported License.

Attribution

The Chaotic-CX Code of Conduct was forked from GNOME Foundation's Code of Conduct (last modified 2020-10-01), which is under a Creative Commons license. See the original page for the original attributions.