The personal-stacks-coc from joberding

Draft Stacks Code of Conduct

Stacks Code of Conduct - Beta (V.2)

Purpose
A primary goal of the Stacks Community is to be inclusive to the largest number of contributors, with the most varied and diverse backgrounds possible. As such, we are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, ability, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and religion (or lack thereof).
This code of conduct outlines our expectations for all those who participate in our community, as well as the consequences for unacceptable behavior.
We invite all those who participate in the Stacks Community to help us create safe and positive experiences for everyone.

Open Citizenship
A supplemental goal of this Code of Conduct is to increase open citizenship by encouraging participants to recognize and strengthen the relationships between our actions and their effects on our community.
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.
If you see someone who is making an extra effort to ensure our community is welcoming, friendly, and encourages all participants to contribute to the fullest extent, we want to know.

A Can’t Be Evil Ethos
A root ethos of the Stacks community is “Can’t Be Evil’. This rallying cry represents a deep core belief in a user-owned internet flanked by the pillars of privacy and self-sovereign identity. We strongly believe in individual rights together with decentralization. This ethos is a centerpiece of our community and development. It is woven into the design of the Stacks protocol.

Our Pledge
We as Stacks community members pledge to make participation in our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and healthy community.

Our Standards
Examples of behavior that contributes to a positive environment for our community include:

Demonstrating empathy and kindness toward other people

Being respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences

Giving and gracefully accepting constructive feedback

Accepting responsibility and apologizing to those affected by our mistakes, and learning from the experience

Focusing on what is best not just for us as individuals, but for the overall community

Examples of unacceptable behavior include:

The use of sexualized language or imagery, and sexual attention or advances of any kind

Trolling, insulting or derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks

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Public or private harassment
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Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or email address, without their explicit permission

Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, age, race, national origin, ethnic origin, nationality, immigration status, language, religion or lack thereof, or other identity marker.

No racist, sexist, cissexist, ableist, or otherwise oppressive behavior is allowed, casual or explicit. This includes any harmful language, behavior, or action toward people of color, trans folks, disabled and other marginalized identities in our community. These are violations of the Code of Conduct.

Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting

Enforcement Responsibilities
Community moderators are responsible for clarifying and enforcing our standards of acceptable behavior and will take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any behavior that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.
Community moderators have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, and will communicate reasons for moderation decisions when appropriate.

Scope
This Code of Conduct applies within all community spaces, and also applies when an individual is officially representing the community in public spaces. Examples of representing our community include using an official e-mail address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed representative at an online or offline event.

Enforcement
Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported to the community leaders responsible for enforcement. All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly.
All community leaders are obligated to respect the privacy and security of the reporter of any incident.

Enforcement Guidelines
Community leaders will follow these Community Impact Guidelines in determining the consequences for any action they deem in violation of this Code of Conduct:

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Correction
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Community Impact: Use of inappropriate language or other behavior deemed unprofessional or unwelcome in the community.
Consequence: A private, written warning from community leaders, providing clarity around the nature of the violation and an explanation of why the behavior was inappropriate. A public apology may be requested.
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Warning
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Community Impact: A violation through a single incident or series of actions.
Consequence: A warning with consequences for continued behavior. No interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, for a specified period of time. This includes avoiding interactions in community spaces as well as external channels like social media. Violating these terms may lead to a temporary or permanent ban.
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Temporary Ban
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Community Impact: A serious violation of community standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior.
Consequence: A temporary ban from any sort of interaction or public communication with the community for a specified period of time. No public or private interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, is allowed during this period. Violating these terms may lead to a permanent ban.
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Permanent Ban
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Community Impact: Demonstrating a pattern of violation of community standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior, harassment of an individual, or aggression toward or disparagement of classes of individuals.
Consequence: A permanent ban from any sort of public interaction within the community.

Attribution
This Code of Conduct is adapted from the Contributor Covenant, version 2.0, available at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/0/code_of_conduct.html.

Community Impact Guidelines were inspired by Mozilla’s code of conduct enforcement ladder.

Language was incorporated from the following Codes of Conduct:
Citizen Code of Conduct licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
LGBTQ in Tech , licensed under a Creative Commons Zero License
Django Project Code of Conduct, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Rust Code of Conduct
References

General
Our Culture
The Guide to Allyship
Creative Commons: When we share, everyone wins

First Amendment
Does Freedom of Speech Exist in Cryptocurrency Communities?
First Amendment and Censorship | Advocacy, Legislation & Issues
Mahanoy Area School District v. BL - SCOTUSblog

Participation
Working Open & Public Participation
Open Leadership Training Series : Working Open
IAP2 Spectrum of Public Participation
Blockchain for Cities - A systematic literature review

Codes of Conduct
http://safetyfirstpdx.org/resources/code_of_conduct.html
Open Leadership Training Series : Write or Choose a Code of Conduct
https://www.python.org/psf/conduct/
Your Code of Conduct
HOWTO design a code of conduct for your community
https://www.djangoproject.com/conduct/
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust
https://zcash.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rtd_pages/code_of_conduct.html
https://electriccoin.co/code-of-conduct/
https://github.com/stumpsyn/policies/blob/master/citizen_code_of_conduct.md
https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/0/code_of_conduct/
https://lgbtq.technology/coc.html