DC learn.js Code of Conduct

learn.js 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 learn.js spaces, including our mailing lists, meetup pages, any communication channels such as Slack or IRC, our GitHub, and any conferences we exhibit or host, both online and off. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the the event organizers or online moderators.

Some learn.js 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:

  1. Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion
  2. Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment.
  3. Deliberate misgendering or use of ‘dead’ or rejected names
  4. Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behaviour in spaces where they’re not appropriate
  5. Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, textual descriptions like “hug” or “backrub”) without consent or after a request to stop.
  6. Threats of violence
  7. Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm
  8. Deliberate intimidation
  9. Stalking or following
  10. Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes
  11. Sustained disruption of discussion
  12. Unwelcome sexual attention
  13. Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others
  14. Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease
  15. Deliberate “outing” of any aspect of a person’s identity without their consent except as necessary to protect vulnerable people from intentional abuse
  16. Publication of non-harassing private communication

learn.js prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. learn.js organizers will not 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
  • Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions

Reporting
If you are being harassed by a member of learn.js, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact the learn.js organizers at dclearnjs@gmail.com. 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 learn.js spaces, but if you are being harassed by a member of learn.js outside our spaces, we still want to know about it. We will take all good-faith reports of harassment by learn.js members, especially learn.js organizers, seriously. This includes harassment outside our spaces and harassment that took place at any point in time. The organizers reserve the right to exclude people from learn.js based on their past behavior, including behavior outside learn.js spaces and behavior towards people who are not in learn.js.

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 learn.js 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, learn.js organizers may take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from all learn.js spaces and identification of the participant as a harasser to other learn.js members or the general public.