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What to prepare for

This is a short list of incidents that are routinely happening and harm our communities' diversity. So, we may want to consider them in our Code of Conduct and prepare adequate responses. What is "adequate"? The Code of Conduct team, who will enforce the CoC, can get together and agree about the following beforehand:

  • What can we do?
  • Within what timeframe do we want to take action?
  • Who will take care of the issue?

Incidents come in various forms and degrees of severity:

Major incidents: insults, stalking, unwanted physical contact, sexual harassment, physical abuse

Minor incidents: sexual imagery, descriptors that refer to personal attributes such as race, gender, sexual orientation, disability or age for example, that tend to overemphasize and draw undue attention to the distinguishing attribute unless they are valid and important for the context.

So, here are some recurring issues, in no particular order:

  • Sexual/suggestive content/imagery on a speaker's outfit: What can we do? Let the speaker put on a neutral/volunteer/staff T-shirt on top of theirs. When? Immediately after report, latest before the speaker steps up on stage.

  • Sexual/suggestive content/imagery in a speaker's presentation: What can we do? Talk to the speaker, give them a warning and apologise publicly right after the talk to the audience. When? Ideally at the talk submission, latest after the talk.

  • Unwanted sexual attention: What can we do? Talk to the offender and give them a warning. When? Immediately after report.

  • Unwanted publishing of pictures of someone: What can we do? Ask the offender to immediately delete their post and give them a warning. When? Within 2 hours.

  • Racist/sexist/ableist/etc. joke: What can we do? Talk to the offender and give them a warning. When? Within 2 hours.

  • Drugging/getting someone drunk to take advantage of them: What can we do? Expel from the conference/call the police in case of serious abuse. When? Immediately after report.

  • Victim-blaming: What can we do? Talk to the offender and give them a warning. When? Within 2 hours.

  • Denying white cishet male privilege/Denying the existence of systemic inequality: What can we do? Talk to the offender and give them a warning. When? Within 2 hours.

  • Discussing issues concerning a specific person/group of people without adequate representation in the discussion/exclusion: What can we do? Talk to the offender and give them a warning. When? Within 2 hours.

  • Sexual language/imagery about the conference on social media: What can we do? Ask the offender to immediately delete their post and give them a warning. When? Within 2 hours.

  • Comments about someone’s sex-appeal/clothing: What can we do? Talk to the offender and give them a warning. When? Within 2 hours.

  • Making fun of other languages/communities: What can we do? Talk to the offender and give them a warning. When? Within 5 hours.

  • Use of women as props for advertising, including as company representatives/”booth babes”: What can we do? Talk to the company representative/person of contact, ask them to remove their human props/babes, give them a warning and apologise publicly at the conference closing to the attendees. When? Immediately after report.

  • Sharing other people’s contact details without their explicit consent: What can we do? Talk to the offender and give them a warning. When? Within 2 hours.

  • Interrupting/ignoring someone during a discussion: What can we do? Talk to the offender and give them a warning. When? Within 5 hours.

  • Trolling a conversation/panel: What can we do? Talk to the offender and give them a warning. When? Within 2 hours.

  • Hassling a transperson when accessing the bathroom: What can we do? Talk to the offender and give them a warning. When? Immediately after report.

  • Misgendering someone: What can we do? Talk to the offender and explain they need to use people's chosen pronouns as soon as they are known. When? Within 5 hours.

  • Using “guys” and “he” as a default when talking about programmers: What can we do? Talk to the offender and give them a warning. When? Within 5 hours.

  • etc.

What do we do when someone has been warned multiple times already? Also a question the team needs to have an answer for before the event kicks off.

Any recurring issue missing?

Please don't hesitate to send a pull request.