Adopt this as it is, or change it to suit your group. Fill in the contacts, say it at the start of each meeting in a sentence or two, and put it where people can find it: on the announcement, on the welcome slides, on the wall.
[Group name]: code of conduct
We meet to talk about Common Lisp and to help each other with it. Everyone is welcome, whatever they know of Lisp or of programming, and whoever they are.
At our meetings, in person and online:
- Be kind and be patient. Every expert once asked the question you think is obvious.
- Disagree about code, not about people. Criticise the idea, never the person who had it.
- No harassment of any kind: no unwelcome comments on anyone's body, identity or background, no unwanted touching or following, no photographs or recordings of someone who has asked not to be in them.
- Jokes are welcome when nobody is the punchline.
- Let others talk. Questions after a talk are questions, not talks of their own.
- Online: keep your microphone off when you are not speaking; the chat is part of the meeting, and these rules apply there too.
If something is wrong. If someone makes you or anyone else uncomfortable, or you see something that breaks these rules, tell one of the people below, in person or privately, during the meeting or after it. We will listen, keep it as confidential as we can, and act. That may be a quiet word, or asking someone to leave the meeting, or to stop coming.
- [Name], [how to reach them]
- [Name], [how to reach them]
If the problem is with one of the organizers, tell the other one, or the admins of common-lisp.net (https://common-lisp.net/registration/#request) for a meeting held on its meeting server.
Adapted from the Common Lisp meeting kit of common-lisp.net, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.