The Democratic Republic of Congo is a country with a rich history and culture, but it is also a country with a lot of challenges. One of the biggest challenges facing the country is its lack of technological development. In order to address this challenge, it is important to bring together all of the tech communities leaders in the country. This community will provide a forum for these leaders to share ideas, collaborate on projects, and advocate for the development of the tech sector in DR Congo.

This organization houses many of the Open Source projects we work on and provide to the community.

This code of conduct outlines our expectations for all those who participate in our open source projects and communities (community programs), as well as the consequences for unacceptable behaviour. We invite all those who participate to help us create safe and positive experiences for everyone. Communities mirror the societies in which they exist and positive action is essential to counteract the many forms of inequality and abuses of power that exist in society.

The following behaviours are expected and requested of all community members:

• Participate in an authentic and active way. In doing so, you contribute to the health and longevity of this community.
• Exercise consideration, respect and empathy in your speech and actions. Remember, we have all been through different stages of learning when adopting technologies.
• Refrain from demeaning, discriminatory, or harassing behaviour and speech.
• Disagreements on things are fine, argumentative behaviour or trolling are not.

• Do not perform threats of violence or use violent language directed against another person.
• Do not make jokes of sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist or otherwise discriminatory nature, or use language of this nature.
• Do not post or display sexually explicit or violent material.
• Do not post or threaten to post other people’s personally identifying information ("doxing").
• Do not make personal insults, particularly those related to gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, or disability.
• Do not engage in sexual attention. This includes, sexualised comments or jokes and sexual advances.
• Do not advocate for, or encourage, any of the above behaviour.

Please take into account that online communities bring together people from many different cultures and backgrounds. It's important to understand that sometimes the combination of cultural differences and online interaction can lead to misunderstandings. That is why having empathy is very important.

If someone is acting inappropriately or violating this Code of Conduct in any shape or form, and they are not receptive to your feedback or you prefer not to confront them, please reach out !

Unacceptable behaviour from any community member will not be tolerated. Anyone asked to stop unacceptable behaviour is expected to comply immediately. If a community member engages in unacceptable behaviour, community organisers may take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including a temporary ban or permanent expulsion from the community without warning.

The license is based off of The Citizen Code of Conduct is distributed by Stumptown Syndicate under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.