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Code of Conduct

A harassment-free experience for all

Our The AWS User Group UK is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone at our events and on our online servers (e.g. Discord, Meetup).

We welcome and support people of all backgrounds and identities. This includes, but is not limited to members of any sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, social and economic class, educational level, colour, immigration status, sex, age, size, family status, political belief, religion, and mental and physical ability.

Discriminatory or harassing language and imagery are not appropriate for any part of the AWS User Group UK, including events, social media channels & online servers and any other channel that we use for community engagement.

People violating these rules may be removed from the community, blocked from attending any future events, and removed from servers and channels associated with the AWS User Group UK.

The current admin is: Paul Spratley, (Organiser)

Harassment Includes

  • Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion
  • Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment.
  • Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behaviour in spaces where they’re not appropriate.
  • Simulated physical contact (e.g. 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.
  • Sustained disruption of the discussion.
  • Unwelcome sexual attention.
  • Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease.
  • Publication of non-harassing private communication.

Reporting

If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact the admins or a member of the organising team (identified on their name badges or on Meetup). They’ll respond as promptly as they can.

We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting victims of abuse. If law enforcement is involved, we will cooperate with them. We will not name harassment victims without their affirmative consent.

Consequences

Participants asked to stop any harassing behaviour are expected to comply immediately.

If a participant engages in harassing behaviour, the admins may take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from the event, server, community, etc., and may publicly identify the participant as someone about whom we’ve received complaints.

Logs and Records

Please be mindful that things you say at events and on our online channels may at some point become public. We cannot prevent people from screencapping or otherwise logging communication. We also can’t guarantee that every member’s login credentials and logged-in devices are secure. Files uploaded here can be downloaded by anyone with a login. Please exercise caution and refrain from sharing sensitive information that could harm you or others if it became public.

Credits and License

This code of conduct is based on Annalee Flower Horne’s Sample Slack Code of Conduct, which is in turn based on Geek Feminism’s Community Anti-Harassment Policy. We have adapted the Sample Slack Code of Conduct for our own use under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.