Lets Talk Deliverabilit.ie CommunityCode of Conduct
Our pledge
Welcome to the Lets Talk Deliverabilit.ie Community! We’re happy you’re here and we’re excited to see your contributions.
We’re dedicated to providing a positive experience for everyone in Lets Talk Deliverabilit.ie Community (the “Community”), regardless of age, caste, citizenship, disability, education, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, immigration status, level of experience, neurodiversity, physical appearance or body size, nationality, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, race, or religion (or lack thereof).
We pledge to interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive and healthy community.
Scope
This Community Code of Conduct (The “CoC”) was was drafted to provide guidance to the diverse members of our Community when interacting with Community members both online and in person.
The Community Code applies within all Community spaces, including:
- any Community online forum, such as wikis, web sites, code repositories, and Community Slack channels.
- private communication between members, if the communication includes stalking, harassment, discrimination, threats of violence, or other behavior that impacts the physical safety or mental health of the Community’s members.
- all Community events and event venues, including all official and unofficial Community events, Community meetups, trainings, and workshops. All event attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers, including the event organizing team, are required to follow the Community Code, and organizers are expected to enforce the Community Code throughout the event.
Additionally, participants are accountable for their own behavior. If you’ve behaved badly elsewhere admins may take that into account when evaluating your behavior here.
Our standards
We hope all Community members will help ensure a safe and welcoming environment for everyone, both online or in person. Here are some examples of behavior that is encouraged, and behavior that is prohibited. This list doesn’t cover every positive or negative act. We reserve the right to prohibit behavior that violates or goes against the spirit of this Community Code.
Examples of behavior that contributes to creating a positive experience 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
- Asking questions early can help avoid many problems later, so questions are highly encouraged. If asked a question, try to be responsive and helpful.
- Sharing knowledge, information and experiences to help others.
Examples of unacceptable behavior of Community members include:
- Deliberate intimidation, stalking, or following.
- Inappropriate, unwanted or harassing photography or recording at events.
- Sustained or repeated disruption of online discussion, talks, or other events.
- Harassment of people who don’t drink alcohol.
- Sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, ageist, ableist or otherwise exclusionary or offensive language.
- Unwelcome sexual attention or behavior that contributes to a sexualized environment.
- Unwelcome physical contact.
- Violence or threats of violence.
- Posting or sharing illegal, unlawful, obscene or immoral content, or any content which violates or infringes the privacy, human rights and/or intellectual property rights of any third party.
- Influencing, inciting or encouraging violence, emotional, or physical harm, illegal or other inappropriate behavior.
- Publishing private or identifying information without explicit permission.
- Personal attacks, or public or private harassment.
Professional standards
This is an email deliverability space, and many members have a strong business interest for participation. Many of us work for companies who provide professional deliverability and email services. We expect members to be transparent about their affiliations and motivations.
In order to encourage transparency we ask members to do the following:
- Complete their profile page with company affiliation, title and a link to your LinkedIn page.
- Post a short introduction in the [Introduce yourself] post (Introduce yourself) soon after joining.
To protect this community, we have a few rules about what not to do.
- Don’t ask about cold email (spam)
- Don’t post content you didn’t create - this prohibition includes content generated using AI systems (Large Language Models, chatGPT, etc).
- Don’t send unsolicited direct messages for sales, marketing, research, or other business purposes
- Don’t post about a company, product, or service to which you have an undisclosed affiliation or business relationship
- Don’t post undisclosed referral links
- Referrals are fine as long as you make it clear what people are clicking
- Don’t spam our community with links or content
- Share to be helpful, not promotional;
- Factors like not participating aside from posting links or including tracking parameters on URLs may lead to messages or users being removed
- Don’t be repetitive
- Conversation around the work, tools, and companies of members and non-members is fine, but keep it constructive and refrain from piling on; you never know who is reading
- Don’t distribute material without authorisation
- This includes links, text, and images of content like reports, webinars, and white papers that may be paid, exclusive to members of an organisation, or behind an email signup
- Don’t impersonate other people
- Ill-intended or not, changing your name and/or photo to replicate someone else’s likeness can be confusing for others
- Don’t scrape or automate anything to do with our member list or messages for any reason, personal or professional
- Don’t “brigade” to or from our community (send people to comment/vote/etc. for a particular interest)
Reporting and Enforcement
To report violations of the Code of Conduct Need to develop page for reporting guidelines and designate reporting channels
Attribution
This Code of Conduct was adapted and modified from the Elastic Community Code of Conduct, the Email Geeks Code of Conduct, the Mozilla Community Participation Guidelines. It is a work in progress.