This is being discussed on the mailing list, and may change. It should reach a final version on Thursday 22 January.
The venue for each event or infrastructure hosting our technology (for example, the mailing list) may have an additional policies that also apply, especially if they are part of a University. For example, here is the University of Oxford's Harassment Policy. Please check on the World Wide Web, or email o@ogeer.org or laura.fortunato@anthro.ox.ac.uk if you have any questions.
tl;dr
Our aim is to cultivate a healthy and welcoming free, libre and open source software community, and to do this we must provide a harassment-free experience for everyone. This experience must be regardless of characteristics including age, being married or in a civil partnership, being pregnant or on maternity leave, body size, disability, gender identity/expression/reassignment, identity or expression, neurotype, race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief or the absence of it, sex, sexual orientation, physical appearance, and software preference (clarified below). This code applies to everyone, in events, organising them, on the mailing list and other forms of group-related communication. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.
You can disclose any concerns in person to an organiser, or by email to o@ogeer.org or laura.fortunato@anthro.ox.ac.uk.
Details
Please do not include sexualized imagery, off-colour jokes or other materials that attendees may deem offensive in your slides or spoken remarks. If you aren’t sure if something you intend to show or state is potentially offensive, please contact the organiser(s) who contacted you for help in reviewing your presentation materials.
Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other participants. Behave professionally. Remember that sexist, racist, or exclusionary jokes are not appropriate for these events.
Harassment will not be tolerated at these events. Harassment is unwanted and unwarranted conduct with the purpose or effect of creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for another person. This includes discriminatory comments and material based on protected characteristics -- age, gender reassignment, being married or in a civil partnership, being pregnant or on maternity leave, disability, race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation -- for which discrimination can be illegal, as well as physical appearance, body size, neurotype[1], gender identity and expression[1], and software preference (you can reason about the relative merits of programs, but no aggression or ad hominem attacks, please). It also includes sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording without permission, sustained disruption of talks or other parts of the event, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention.
Just as we will ask any audience member to cease their behaviour and to leave if they are not respectful of you, we will also ask that you stop presenting should there be offensive or inappropriate material in your slides or presentation. This code applies to everyone -- including attendees, speakers, volunteers and staff.
Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately. If they do not stop immediately or their behavior constitutes a potential physical danger to other participants, they may be ejected from the event. This will be at the discretion of the organiser(s).
If you believe that someone is violating the code of conduct during these events, or have any other concerns, please contact Oliver Geer (o@ogeer.org) or Laura Fortunato (laura.fortunato@anthro.ox.ac.uk) immediately by emailing their respective address.
The organiser(s) can help you contact emergency services and/or local police.
Credits
Except for the sentence "Harassment is...", which is slightly modified from the University of Oxford's definition, this code of conduct is a modified version of FOSSY's. They borrowed heavily from the SeaGL and North Bay Python Codes of Conduct which are based on this template and include many of the variations used by PyCon, all of which are available under the Creative Commons Zero License. Please feel free to use any of this language for your own Code of Conduct.
Aside: Clarifications
[1] Why the apparent duplicate mentions? The definitions of many of the protected characteristics can be found in the Equality Act 2010. For example, "religion and belief" includes a lack of religion. However:
"Disability" in UK law includes mental impairments with a "substantial and long-term effect" on the day-to-day, but attacking any kind of neurotype is unsuitable for the events.
"Gender reassignment" has a definition in UK law including "changing physiological or other attributes of sex." This potentially but not transparently includes people undergoing social gender transitions without (yet, perhaps) medical sex transitions. I want to prevent these people getting harassed for existing in our events. This explanation is needed because of the ambiguity in law, not any bias for this characteristic on my part.