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+= Code of Conduct
+
+NOTE: As of Feb 2023, "`RESPONSE TEAM`" and "`LEADERSHIP TEAM`" in the text
+that follows both refer to me, Daniel Barlow, as the project leader.
+
+Liminix is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for
+everyone. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.
+
+This code of conduct applies to all Liminix spaces, including the IRC
+channel, mailing lists, and other forums, both online and off. Anyone
+who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from
+these spaces at the discretion of the RESPONSE TEAM.
+
+Some Liminix spaces may have additional rules in place, which will be
+made clearly available to participants. Participants are responsible for
+knowing and abiding by these rules.
+
+Harassment includes:
+
+* Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression,
+sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality,
+physical appearance, body size, age, race, or religion.
+* Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and
+practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs,
+and employment.
+* Deliberate misgendering or use of '`dead`' or rejected names.
+* Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behaviour in spaces where
+they’re not appropriate.
+* Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, textual
+descriptions like "`__hug__`" or "`__backrub__`") without consent or
+after a request to stop.
+* Threats of violence.
+* Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a
+person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm.
+* Deliberate intimidation.
+* Stalking or following.
+* Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity
+for harassment purposes.
+* Sustained disruption of discussion.
+* Unwelcome sexual attention.
+* Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming
+inappropriate levels of intimacy with others
+* Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease.
+* Deliberate "`outing`" of any aspect of a person’s identity without
+their consent except as necessary to protect vulnerable people from
+intentional abuse.
+* Publication of non-harassing private communication.
+
+Liminix prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged
+people’s comfort. RESPONSE TEAM reserves the right not to act on
+complaints regarding:
+
+* '`Reverse`' -isms, including '`reverse racism,`' '`reverse sexism,`'
+and '`cisphobia`'
+* Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as "`leave me alone,`"
+"`go away,`" or "`I’m not discussing this with you.`"
+* Communicating in a '`tone`' you don’t find congenial
+* Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive
+behavior or assumptions
+
+== Reporting
+
+If you are being harassed by a member of Liminix, notice that someone
+else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact the
+RESPONSE TEAM at [email address or other contact point]. If the person
+who is harassing you is on the team, they will recuse themselves from
+handling your incident. We will respond as promptly as we can.
+
+This code of conduct applies to Liminix spaces, but if you are being
+harassed by a member of Liminix outside our spaces, we still want to
+know about it. We will take all good-faith reports of harassment by
+Liminix members, especially LEADERSHIP TEAM, seriously. This includes
+harassment outside our spaces and harassment that took place at any
+point in time. The abuse team reserves the right to exclude people from
+Liminix based on their past behavior, including behavior outside Liminix
+spaces and behavior towards people who are not in Liminix.
+
+In order to protect volunteers from abuse and burnout, we reserve the
+right to reject any report we believe to have been made in bad faith.
+Reports intended to silence legitimate criticism may be deleted without
+response.
+
+We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting
+victims of abuse. At our discretion, we may publicly name a person about
+whom we’ve received harassment complaints, or privately warn third
+parties about them, if we believe that doing so will increase the safety
+of Liminix members or the general public. We will not name harassment
+victims without their affirmative consent.
+
+== Consequences
+
+Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply
+immediately.
+
+If a participant engages in harassing behavior, RESPONSE TEAM may take
+any action they deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from all
+Liminix spaces and identification of the participant as a harasser to
+other Liminix members or the general public.
+
+== License and attribution
+
+The policy is based on the Geek Feminism
+https://geekfeminism.fandom.com/wiki/Community_anti-harassment/Policy[Community
+anti-harassment/Policy] and is the work of Annalee Flower Horne with
+assistance from Valerie Aurora, Alex Skud Bayley, Tim Chevalier, and
+Mary Gardiner.