We as maintainers and contributors pledge to create a safe, inclusive, harassment-free and supportive environment for people from underrepresented backgrounds (which includes women, people with disabilities (PwDs), racial, ethnic, religious, gender minorities and economically weaker section) to get involved in the free software ecosystem and contribute to our projects irrespective of gender, age, sexual orientation, race, disability, ethnicity, physical appearance, religion, technological choices, political alignment or demographics.
We expect cooperation from everyone to ensure that our community remains a safe and welcoming place for everyone.
FOSSIA is committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and harassment-free environment for contributing to our projects. As an inclusive community, we encourage maintainers and participants to:
- Be welcoming and friendly, especially to newcomers
- Be patient and empathetic
- Use respectful and inclusive language
- Provide constructive criticism
We do not tolerate activities, including but not limited to:
- Harassment of anyone associated with the community.
- Sexual language or imagery in public collaboration groups.
- Irrelevant or misleading political discussions, considering we want to keep this space relevant to technology and free software ecosystem.
- Revealing sensitive information about other individuals without consent.
Our community communication and collaboration channels prohibit discrimination and offensive communication, be it verbal or non-verbal based on, but not limited to, the following factors:
Project maintainers are responsible for clarifying the standards of acceptable behavior and are expected to take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any instances of unacceptable behavior.
Project maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, or to ban temporarily or permanently any contributor for other behaviors that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.
This Code of Conduct applies both within project spaces and in public spaces when an individual is representing the project or its community. Examples of representing a project or community include using an official project e-mail address, posting via an official social media account or acting as an appointed representative at an online or offline event. Representation of a project may be further defined and clarified by project maintainers.
The code of conduct is extended from our official code of conduct to ensure an inclusive and safe environment for contributing to our projects.
Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported by contacting the FOSSIA Code of Conduct Team at coc-fossia@riseup.net.
We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting victims of unacceptable behavior. At our discretion, we may publicly name a person about whom we’ve received unacceptable behavior complaints, or privately warn third parties about them, if we believe that doing so will increase the safety of FOSSIA members or the general public. We will not name victims without their affirmative consent.
The following people comprise the FOSSIA Code of Conduct Team and are the only recipients of coc-fossia@riseup.net:
- Keerthana Rajesh Kumar
Portions of this Code of Conduct are based on the FOSS United's code of conduct, CHAOSS code of conduct, example code of conduct from the MLH policies, created by Major League Hacking, under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License.