PyCarinthia is a volunteer-run community. We want everyone who joins a meetup, workshop, or online discussion to have a good time and to feel welcome.
This Code of Conduct is based on the Python Software Foundation Code of Conduct and adapted from the PyCon Austria Code of Conduct. It applies to all organizers, speakers, hosts, sponsors, volunteers, and attendees at PyCarinthia events, and to PyCarinthia online spaces such as the Meetup group.
Expected behavior
Be open, considerate, and respectful. Behavior that supports these values includes:
- Being open to collaboration and to people who are new to Python or AI.
- Acknowledging the time and effort of others, especially volunteer work.
- Showing empathy. Be attentive in your communication, in person and online, and be tactful when views differ.
- Respecting others, their positions, their skills, their commitments, and their efforts.
- Giving constructive feedback and accepting it gracefully. When you disagree, stay courteous.
- Using welcoming and inclusive language, so anyone who wants to take part can.
Our standards
Every participant has the right to have their identity respected. PyCarinthia aims to be a positive experience for everyone, regardless of age, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, ethnicity, nationality, race, religion (or lack thereof), education, cultural and cognitive variations, or socio-economic status.
Unacceptable behavior
Examples of unacceptable behavior include:
- Harassment of any participant in any form.
- Deliberate intimidation, stalking, or following.
- Violent threats or language directed against another person.
- Incitement of violence or harassment towards any individual, including encouraging a person to self-harm.
- Publishing others' private information, such as a physical or electronic address, without explicit permission.
- Logging or taking screenshots of online activity for harassment purposes.
- Creating additional online accounts to harass another person or circumvent a ban.
- Sexual language and imagery in talks, slides, online spaces, or at the venue that sexualizes, insults, demeans, or attacks groups or individuals.
- Insults, put-downs, or jokes based on stereotypes, that are exclusionary, or that hold others up for ridicule.
- Unwelcome sexual attention or advances.
- Unwelcome physical contact, or continuing contact after a request to stop.
- Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease.
- Sustained disruption of talks, discussions, or other events.
- Photographing or recording people who have asked not to be photographed or recorded.
- Other conduct that is inappropriate in a community of people from many different backgrounds.
Anyone asked by an organizer to stop unacceptable behavior is expected to comply immediately.
No spam
Meetups are a good place to share your work, find collaborators, and talk about jobs. Keep talks focused on what the audience can learn. Company marketing, product pitches, and recruiting belong in the time set aside for them, such as sponsor announcements or the social part of the evening, unless agreed with the organizers beforehand.
Consequences
If a participant violates this Code of Conduct, the organizers may take any action they consider appropriate. This ranges from a warning to removal from an event or exclusion from future PyCarinthia events and online spaces.
Reporting
If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concern, please talk to an organizer at the event straight away. You can see who the organizers are on the organizers page.
You can also report an incident, during or after an event, through the contact form. Please include what happened, when and where, who was involved, and whether anyone else witnessed it. If you would like a reply, add an email address or phone number to your message. You do not have to give your real name, but without a way to reach you we cannot follow up.
Reports are handled confidentially. Anyone with a conflict of interest stays out of the decision. If you left a way to reach you, we will confirm that we received your report and tell you what we decided to do. Organizers are happy to help you contact venue security or the police, or to otherwise help you feel safe.
Emergency numbers in Austria
- Police: 133
- Ambulance: 144
- Fire service: 122
- European emergency number: 112
License and attribution
This Code of Conduct is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
It is adapted from the PyCon Austria Code of Conduct, which is inspired by the Python Software Foundation Code of Conduct and based on the EuroPython Code of Conduct. The EuroPython Code of Conduct is based on the PyCon US Code of Conduct, which was forked from the example policy of the Geek Feminism wiki, created by the Ada Initiative and other volunteers.