= 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.
