Our Goal
This community is dedicated to providing a harassment-free environment for everyone. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.
Applicability and Scope
This code of conduct applies to all of this community’s spaces, including public channels, private channels and direct messages, both online and off. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the advocates.
Toward a Welcoming and Safe Environment
We hope to create an environment in which diverse individuals can collaborate and interact in a positive and affirming way in order to achieve paradiGM’s mission of connecting global mobility practitioners in a way that helps them to develop and thrive professionally while giving back to diverse communities and connecting with one another in a genuine, meaningful ways. Examples of behavior that contributes to creating this sort of environment include:
- Using welcoming and inclusive language
- Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences
- Gracefully accepting constructive criticism
- Focusing on what is best for the overall community
- Showing empathy towards other community members
In addition, we ask that members refrain from posting advertisements or sales pitches for their services or reaching out to members to solicit business.
Members are welcome to post updates and news regarding new government policies, procedures and programs, and to respond to requests for assistance.
Anti-Harassment Statement
This community will not tolerate harassment of any kind. Examples of harassment include:
- Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, pregnancy status, veteran status, political affiliation, marital status, body size, age, race, national origin, ethnic origin, nationality, immigration status, language, religion or lack thereof, or other identity marker. This includes anti-Indigenous/Nativeness and anti-Blackness.
- Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, relationships, drugs, and employment.
- Sexual images or behavior.
- Threats or incitement of violence.
- Deliberate intimidation or stalking.
- Sustained disruption of discussion.
- 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 private communication.
If you have questions or concerns about these issues please feel free to message an advocate.
Reporting
If you are being harassed by a member of our community, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact the advocates via email. If the person who is harassing you is on the leadership team, they will not be involved in handling or resolving the incident.
The leadership team will respond to any complaint as promptly as possible we can. If you do not get a timely response (for example, if no advocates are currently online) then please put your personal safety and well-being first, and consider logging out and/or contacting the advocates by email at info@paradigmcommunity.org.
In order to protect our leadership team and 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.
Enforcement Process
Every good faith code of conduct violation report will be treated with seriousness and care. If a member’s immediate safety and security is threatened, an individual advocate may take any action that they deem appropriate, up to and including temporarily banning the offender from the community. In less urgent situations, at least two advocates will discuss the offense and mutually arrive at a suitable response, which will be shared with the offender privately. Whatever the resolution that they decide upon, the decision of the advocates involved in a violation case will be considered final.
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 our 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, the advocates may take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from the community and identification of the participant as a harasser to other members. At the discretion of the advocates, or by request, one or more of the parties involved may request to discuss the violation and how to avoid similar situations in the future.
Acknowledgements
This Code of Conduct is adapted from the Community Covenant (http://community-covenant.net), version 1.0, available at http://community-covenant.net/version/1/0/. The Community Covenant is an open source effort and is built on codes of conduct that came before it, including the Contributor Covenant and the LGBTQ in Tech community code of conduct.
License
Community Covenant by Coraline Ada Ehmke is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://community-covenant.net/.
