The organizers are committed to making this meeting a productive, respectful, and enjoyable experience for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, nationality, religion, or any other personal characteristic.
We expect all participants to contribute to a professional and inclusive environment. Harassment or inappropriate behaviour of any kind will not be tolerated.
Please follow these guidelines:
- Behave professionally and respectfully. Harassment, as well as sexist, racist, discriminatory, or exclusionary comments or jokes, are not appropriate. Harassment includes sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, unwanted sexual attention or innuendo, deliberate intimidation, stalking, and photographing or recording an individual without their consent. Offensive comments or behaviour related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, nationality, religion, or other personal characteristics are also not appropriate.
- Keep communication appropriate for a professional audience. The meeting brings together people from diverse backgrounds and experiences. Sexual language, imagery, or other content that is inappropriate for a professional setting should not be used or displayed.
- Treat others with kindness and respect. Do not insult, demean, or deliberately put down other participants.
Participants asked to stop inappropriate behaviour are expected to comply immediately. Anyone who violates these guidelines may be asked to leave the event at the discretion of the organizers, without a refund of any registration fee or other charges.
If you experience or witness behaviour that violates this Code of Conduct, or if you have any concerns about your experience at the meeting, please speak confidentially with any member of the organizing committee.
This code of conduct is based on the “London Code of Conduct“, as originally designed for the conference “Accurate Astrophysics. Correct Cosmology”, held in London in July 2015. The London Code of Conduct was adapted with permission by Andrew Pontzen and Hiranya Peiris from a document by Software Carpentry, which itself derives from original Creative Commons documents by PyCon and Geek Feminism. It is released under a CC-Zero licence for reuse.