# Code of Conduct

## Our pledge

Welcome to our Digital Skills GitBook community! Here we foster a welcoming and inclusive environment for everyone regardless of background or identity. Please respect this community by not using behaviour that is disrespectful to our members or that harasses, belittles, excludes or intimidates others for any reason whatsoever. In order to contribute to the book we ask that you respect this code and behave in an appropriate manner.

## Contributing to the book

### Do's

😊 Use welcoming and inclusive language\
😊 Be respectful to different viewpoints and experiences\
😊 Gracefully accept constructive criticism\
😊 Focus on what is best for the community\
😊 Show courtesy and respect towards other members\
😊 Keep all interactions respectful and professional

### Don'ts

☹️ Insult, put-down or exclude people on any basis, including membership to specific groups\
☹️ Cause someone to fear for their safety, such as through stalking, following or intimidation\
☹️ Use violent threats or language directed against another person\
☹️ Upload, send or share sexual or violent images\
☹️ Make sexist, racist, homophobic, ableist or exclusionary jokes or comments\
☹️ Incite violence, suicide or self-harm\
☹️ Continue to initiate interaction (including photography or recording) with someone after being asked to stop\
☹️ Publish private communication without consent\
☹️ Behave in any other way which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting

## Scope

This Code of Conduct applies within all community spaces, and also applies when an individual is officially representing the community in public spaces. Examples of representing our community include using an official e-mail address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed representative at an online or offline event.

## What to do if you experience unacceptable behaviour

Please let us know if you believe someone is violating the Code of Conduct via [digidexlibrarians+gitbook@gmail.com](mailto:digidexlibrarians+gitbook@gmail.com), with _Digital Skills GitBook_ in the subject line.

The Digital Skills GitBook project team have the right and responsibility to remove, edit or reject comments, commits, code, issues and other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, and will communicate reasons for moderation decisions when appropriate.

All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly.

## Attribution

This Code of Conduct is inspired by and adapted from [The Carpentries Code of Conduct](https://docs.carpentries.org/topic_folders/policies/code-of-conduct.html), [The Turing Way Code of Conduct](https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/community-handbook/coc.html) and the [Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct](https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/0/code_of_conduct.html).

Similarly, this Code of Conduct is also licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0 CA)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) licence.
