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