Why You Want a Code of Conduct & How We Made One - Incisive.nu
incisive.nu/2014/codes-of-conduct
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Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
A code of conduct is a formal documentation of your event/community/projects standards of behavior, and a statement of your process for handling breaches of those standards. In the communities Im involved in, codes of conduct tend to focus on anti-harassment policies, and thosealong with policies focused on intimidation, discrimination, and straight-up assaultare the areas Ill focus on here, but a code of conduct could deal with a much broader set of positive or negative behaviors. - See more at: http://incisive.nu/2014/codes-of-conduct/#sthash.587fDlCj.dpuf