Introduction
This document forms the official statement of the Gitano community with respect to the behaviour it expects of its participants and contributors. Each project under the Gitano umbrella will carry a copy of the shorter version of this policy document and a link to this page for the full version. Should the policy be ammended in future, an updated policy shall automatically replace the earlier policies in all cases with immediate effect.
Anti-harassment policy text
Shorter version
The Gitano Community is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, age, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.
This code of conduct applies to all The Gitano Community spaces, including
our mailing lists such as gitano-dev@gitano.org.uk, our IRC channels such as
#gitano on Freenode, and at any in-person event at which members of the
community attend, both online and off. Anyone who violates this code of conduct
may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the
Gitano Community Managers.
Some The Gitano Community spaces may have additional rules in place, which will be made clearly available to participants. Participants are responsible for knowing and abiding by these rules.
Longer version
The Gitano Community is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.
This code of conduct applies to all The Gitano Community spaces, including
our mailing lists such as gitano-dev@gitano.org.uk, our IRC channels such as
#gitano on Freenode, and at any in-person event at which members of the
community attend, both online and off. Anyone who violates this code of conduct
may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the
Gitano Community Managers.
Some The Gitano Community spaces may have additional rules in place, which will be made clearly available to participants. Participants are responsible for knowing and abiding by these rules.
Harassment includes:
- Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, age, race, or religion.
- Unwelcome comments regarding a person's lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment.
- Deliberate misgendering or use of 'dead' or rejected names.
- Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behaviour in spaces where they're not appropriate.
- Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, textual descriptions
like "
*hug*" or "*backrub*") without consent or after a request to stop. - Threats of violence.
- Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm.
- Deliberate intimidation.
- Stalking or following.
- Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes.
- Sustained disruption of discussion.
- Unwelcome sexual attention.
- Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others
- Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease.
- Deliberate "outing" of any aspect of a person's identity without their consent except as necessary to protect vulnerable people from intentional abuse.
- Publication of non-harassing private communication.
The Gitano Community prioritises marginalised people's safety over privileged people's comfort. Gitano Community Managers reserve the right not to act on complaints regarding:
- '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."
- Communicating in a 'tone' you don't find congenial
- Criticising racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions
Reporting
If you are being harassed by a member of The Gitano Community, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact the Gitano Community Managers. If the person who is harassing you is on the team, they will recuse themselves from handling your incident. We will respond as promptly as we can.
This code of conduct applies to The Gitano Community spaces, but if you are being harassed by a member of The Gitano Community outside our spaces, we still want to know about it. We will take all good-faith reports of harassment by The Gitano Community members, seriously. This includes harassment outside our spaces and harassment that took place at any point in time. The Gitano Community Managers reserve the right to exclude people from The Gitano Community based on their past behavior, including behavior outside The Gitano Community spaces and behavior towards people who are not in The Gitano Community.
In order to protect volunteers from abuse and burnout, we reserve the right to reject any report we believe to have been made in bad faith. Reports intended to silence legitimate criticism may be deleted without response.
We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting victims of abuse. At our discretion, we may publicly name a person about whom we've received harassment complaints, or privately warn third parties about them, if we believe that doing so will increase the safety of The Gitano Community members or the general public. We will not name harassment victims without their affirmative consent.
Consequences
Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.
If a participant engages in harassing behavior, Gitano Community Managers may take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from all The Gitano Community spaces and identification of the participant as a harasser to other The Gitano Community members or the general public.
Gitano Community Managers
The team responsible for ensuring that The Gitano Community spaces are safe for all participants and observers current comprises:
- Daniel Silverstone
- Richard Maw
While individual members of the management team are prepared to be contacted individually, if you need to contact the team for the purpose of reporting anything under the terms of this covenant / anti-harassment policy then please send email to community@gitano.org.uk.
License and attribution
This policy is licensed under the Creative Commons Zero license. It is public domain, no credit and no open licencing of your version is required.
The policy is based on the work done by the Geek Feminism community, specifically their community anti-harassment policy.
Their policy is based on their conference anti-harassment policy, and is the work of Annalee Flower Horne with assistance from Valerie Aurora, Alex Skud Bayley, Tim Chevalier, and Mary Gardiner.