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  7  # Adafruit Community Code of Conduct
  8  
  9  ## Our Pledge
 10  
 11  In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as
 12  contributors and leaders pledge to making participation in our project and
 13  our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body
 14  size, disability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, level or type of
 15  experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance,
 16  race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
 17  
 18  ## Our Standards
 19  
 20  We are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for
 21  all.
 22  
 23  Examples of behavior that contributes to creating a positive environment
 24  include:
 25  
 26  * Be kind and courteous to others
 27  * Using welcoming and inclusive language
 28  * Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences
 29  * Collaborating with other community members
 30  * Gracefully accepting constructive criticism
 31  * Focusing on what is best for the community
 32  * Showing empathy towards other community members
 33  
 34  Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:
 35  
 36  * The use of sexualized language or imagery and sexual attention or advances
 37  * The use of inappropriate images, including in a community member's avatar
 38  * The use of inappropriate language, including in a community member's nickname
 39  * Any spamming, flaming, baiting or other attention-stealing behavior
 40  * Excessive or unwelcome helping; answering outside the scope of the question
 41    asked
 42  * Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
 43  * Promoting or spreading disinformation, lies, or conspiracy theories against
 44    a person, group, organisation, project, or community
 45  * Public or private harassment
 46  * Publishing others' private information, such as a physical or electronic
 47    address, without explicit permission
 48  * Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate
 49  
 50  The goal of the standards and moderation guidelines outlined here is to build
 51  and maintain a respectful community. We ask that you don’t just aim to be
 52  "technically unimpeachable", but rather try to be your best self. 
 53  
 54  We value many things beyond technical expertise, including collaboration and
 55  supporting others within our community. Providing a positive experience for
 56  other community members can have a much more significant impact than simply
 57  providing the correct answer.
 58  
 59  ## Our Responsibilities
 60  
 61  Project leaders are responsible for clarifying the standards of acceptable
 62  behavior and are expected to take appropriate and fair corrective action in
 63  response to any instances of unacceptable behavior.
 64  
 65  Project leaders have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or
 66  reject messages, comments, commits, code, issues, and other contributions
 67  that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, or to ban temporarily or
 68  permanently any community member for other behaviors that they deem
 69  inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.
 70  
 71  ## Moderation
 72  
 73  Instances of behaviors that violate the Adafruit Community Code of Conduct
 74  may be reported by any member of the community. Community members are
 75  encouraged to report these situations, including situations they witness
 76  involving other community members.
 77  
 78  You may report in the following ways:
 79  
 80  In any situation, you may send an email to <support@adafruit.com>.
 81  
 82  On the Adafruit Discord, you may send an open message from any channel
 83  to all Community Moderators by tagging @community moderators. You may 
 84  also send an open message from any channel, or a direct message to 
 85  @kattni#1507, @tannewt#4653, @Dan Halbert#1614, @cater#2442, 
 86  @sommersoft#0222, @Mr. Certainly#0472 or @Andon#8175.
 87  
 88  Email and direct message reports will be kept confidential.
 89  
 90  In situations on Discord where the issue is particularly egregious, possibly
 91  illegal, requires immediate action, or violates the Discord terms of service,
 92  you should also report the message directly to Discord.
 93  
 94  These are the steps for upholding our community’s standards of conduct.
 95  
 96  1. Any member of the community may report any situation that violates the
 97  Adafruit Community Code of Conduct. All reports will be reviewed and
 98  investigated.
 99  2. If the behavior is an egregious violation, the community member who
100  committed the violation may be banned immediately, without warning.
101  3. Otherwise, moderators will first respond to such behavior with a warning.
102  4. Moderators follow a soft "three strikes" policy - the community member may
103  be given another chance, if they are receptive to the warning and change their
104  behavior.
105  5. If the community member is unreceptive or unreasonable when warned by a
106  moderator, or the warning goes unheeded, they may be banned for a first or
107  second offense. Repeated offenses will result in the community member being
108  banned.
109  
110  ## Scope
111  
112  This Code of Conduct and the enforcement policies listed above apply to all
113  Adafruit Community venues. This includes but is not limited to any community
114  spaces (both public and private), the entire Adafruit Discord server, and
115  Adafruit GitHub repositories. Examples of Adafruit Community spaces include
116  but are not limited to meet-ups, audio chats on the Adafruit Discord, or
117  interaction at a conference.
118  
119  This Code of Conduct applies both within project spaces and in public spaces
120  when an individual is representing the project or its community. As a community
121  member, you are representing our community, and are expected to behave
122  accordingly.
123  
124  ## Attribution
125  
126  This Code of Conduct is adapted from the [Contributor Covenant][homepage],
127  version 1.4, available at
128  <https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/code-of-conduct.html>,
129  and the [Rust Code of Conduct](https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/conduct.html).
130  
131  For other projects adopting the Adafruit Community Code of
132  Conduct, please contact the maintainers of those projects for enforcement.
133  If you wish to use this code of conduct for your own project, consider
134  explicitly mentioning your moderation policy or making a copy with your
135  own moderation policy so as to avoid confusion.