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I encourage us all to make a good-faith read of this text: "Code4Lib seeks to provide a welcoming, professionally engaging, fun, and safe conference (and ongoing community) experience for everyone. We do not tolerate harassment in any form. Discriminatory language and imagery, including sexual or sexualized language and imagery, is not appropriate for any event venue, including talks, or any community channel such as the chatroom or mailing list. Harassment is understood as any behavior that threatens or demeans another person or group, or that produces an unsafe environment. It includes offensive verbal comments or non-verbal expressions related to gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religious or political beliefs; sexual, sexualized, or discriminatory images in public (including online) spaces; deliberate intimidation, stalking, or following; harassing photography or recording; sustained disruption of talks or other events; inappropriate physical contact; and unwelcome sexual attention." ... such that it intends "religious or political beliefs" to make clear that neither politics nor religion excuse harassment in our community, and is not trying to create an ethnicity loophole by referring to race as one of the subjects of harassment. I don't think there is any reason to suspect antisemitism is acceptable to the community, and I am confident that the CSS would treat a report of antisemitic harrassment as seriously as they would any other. However, if you've felt that the text should clarify these points, others may as well! I've opened a change request: https://github.com/code4lib/code-of-conduct/pull/91 following the contribution instructions at https://github.com/code4lib/code-of-conduct. It suggests two amendments to the text: 1. Updating the second sentence of the second paragraph to begin with "It includes, but is not limited to," 2. Adding ethnicity to the enumerated examples of subjects of harassment - Ben On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 2:50 PM Tim Spalding <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Certainly interesting to see a CoC that prohibits offensive comments about > political beliefs but neglects to include ethnicity. Combined with the > oddly limited "religious beliefs" (as opposed to the more standard and > open-ended "religion"), I wonder how one would go about reporting most > antisemitism. > > T > > On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 2:32 PM Tom Johnson < > [log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > i think it would be fantastic if the existing links from the About page > > were made more prominent and/or updated to emphasize that this is an > > authoritative document. > > > > i admit to not understanding the question about "draft" vs "official", or > > the scare quotes. i think we should avoid undermining the status of this > > long standing and painstakingly maintained piece of community > > infrastructure. > > > > - tamsin > > > > > > On Fri, May 14, 2021, 11:14 AM Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > > On May 14, 2021, at 2:02 PM, Mark A. Matienzo <[log in to unmask] > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > >> Do Code4Lib have an official Code of Conduct statement, not a draft. > > And > > > >> if so, then what is its URL? --Eric Morgan > > > > > > > > Yes: > > > > > > https://github.com/code4lib/code-of-conduct/blob/main/code_of_conduct.md > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Mark A. Matienzo > > > > PO Box 80831 > > > > Unceded Duwamish Lands / Seattle, WA 98108 > > > > https://matienzo.org/ > > > > > > > > > Thank you for the prompt reply. I saw/found that. Again thank you. Is > it > > > "official" or a draft? If it is "official", then I suggest it be made > > more > > > apparent somewhere under https://code4lib.org. Otherwise, how is a > > person > > > suppose to know where to find/get canonical Code4Lib information? > --Eric > > > Morgan > > > > > > > > -- > Check out my library at http://www.librarything.com/profile/timspalding >