<h1id="astropy-community-code-of-conduct">Astropy Community Code of Conduct<aclass="paralink" href="#astropy-community-code-of-conduct" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>The community of participants in open source Astronomy projects is made
up of members from around the globe with a diverse set of skills,
personalities, and experiences. It is through these differences that our
community experiences success and continued growth. We expect everyone in
our community to follow these guidelines when interacting with others both
inside and outside of our community. Our goal is to keep ours a positive,
inclusive, successful, and growing community.</p>
<p>As members of the community,</p>
<ul>
<li>We pledge to treat all people with respect and provide a harassment- and
bullying-free environment, regardless of sex, sexual orientation and/or
gender identity, disability, physical appearance, body size, race,
nationality, ethnicity, and religion. In particular, sexual language and
imagery, sexist, racist, or otherwise exclusionary jokes are not
appropriate.</li>
<li>We pledge to respect the work of others by recognizing
acknowledgment/citation requests of original authors. As authors, we pledge
to be explicit about how we want our own work to be cited or
acknowledged.</li>
<li>We pledge to welcome those interested in joining the community, and
realize that including people with a variety of opinions and backgrounds
will only serve to enrich our community. In particular, discussions relating
to pros/cons of various technologies, programming languages, and so on are
welcome, but these should be done with respect, taking proactive measure to
ensure that all participants are heard and feel confident that they can
freely express their opinions.</li>
<li>We pledge to welcome questions and answer them respectfully, paying
particular attention to those new to the community. We pledge to provide
respectful criticisms and feedback in forums, especially in discussion
threads resulting from code contributions.</li>
<li>We pledge to be conscientious of the perceptions of the wider community
and to respond to criticism respectfully. We will strive to model behaviors
that encourage productive debate and disagreement, both within our community
and where we are criticized. We will treat those outside our community with
the same respect as people within our community.</li>
<li>We pledge to help the entire community follow the code of conduct, and
to not remain silent when we see violations of the code of conduct. We will
take action when members of our community violate this code such as
contacting confidential@astropy.org (all emails sent to this address will be
treated with the strictest confidence) or talking privately with the
person.</li>
</ul>
<p>This code of conduct applies to all community situations online and
offline, including mailing lists, forums, social media, conferences,
meetings, associated social events, and one-to-one interactions.</p>
<p>Any related activity or project organized by members of the Astropy
community, including affiliated packages, are welcome to have their own
codes of conduct, but agree to also abide by the present code of
conduct.</p>
<p>Parts of this code of conduct have been adapted from the PSF code of
conduct.</p>
<pclass="centered"><arel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><imgalt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br/>The Astropy Community Code of Conduct is licensed under a <arel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>. We encourage other communities related to ours to use or adapt this code as they see fit.</p>