Proposed Code of Conduct

organizational/conduct.rst

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+The Mission of Hacker Society
+=============================
+
+Hacker Society (HacSoc) at Case Western Reserve University is a time and place
+for people to learn about technology from each other, in order to build a
+community, empower the individual, promote equality, and foster an open society.
+
+**Open Society**: An open society promotes freedom of thought and expression,
+personal responsibility, individualism, cooperation, and equality of all
+citizens.
+
+Code of Conduct
+===============
+
+It is expected that members behave in a way that allows Hacker Society to
+achieve its mission. Participants in Hacker Society events are expected to
+respect each other's perspectives and treat each other with dignity and respect.
+In particular, participants should recognize that people of all skill levels are
+welcome, and should always be willing to help others learn.
+
+To support its mission, Hacker Society must be a place where people can be
+comfortable regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual
+orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, or religion.
+Therefore, we do not tolerate:
+
+- Rude or unwelcome comments about a person's gender, gender identity, gender
+  expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, attire, race,
+  age or religious expression.
+- Sexual images in public spaces
+- Deliberate intimidation, stalking, or following
+- Harassing photography or recording
+- Sustained disruption of talks or other events
+- Inappropriate physical contact
+- Unwelcome sexual attention
+- Advocating for, or encouraging, any of the above behavior
+
+Necessarily, the goals of learning, community, and equality are in tension
+with the goals individual empowerment, freedom of thought, and freedom of
+expression. We encourage polite, civil discourse but we also strive to
+make all welcome, even those with unpopular ideas or thoughts. However, in
+order to foster our community, certain limits on free expression must be
+observed. We expect that debate and constructive criticism are part of this
+open atmosphere. We expect that some members of the community may express
+ideas which are not politically correct. We expect that some ideas expressed
+by a minority may be deeply unpopular and distasteful to the majority.
+However, if these ideas or discussions devolve into attacks against a person
+and/or their intrinsic characteristics, we believe that this is unacceptable.
+
+Enforcement
+-----------
+
+This policy applies at all Hacker Society events and spaces, online and
+offline.  This includes, but is not limited to:
+
+- Weekly talks
+- Open Hacks
+- Link-State
+- HackCWRU
+- Mailing lists (hackers-discuss, cwru-hackers)
+- GitHub organization
+- Slack team
+
+The policy applies to attendees as well as any speakers, sponsors, or other
+participants in these activities and communication streams.  Although we don't
+have any direct authority over behavior in our typical spaces such as the
+Glennan Student Lounge, we expect that HacSoc participants will adhere to these
+guidelines, and we also note that `Case's policies
+<https://students.case.edu/handbook/policy/>`_ are always in force.
+
+We expect participants asked to stop any harassing behavior to comply
+immediately.  If participants do not comply, the Maintainer and HacSoc officers
+retain the right to take any actions to keep HacSoc a welcoming environment for
+all participants.  This includes warning the offender, or removing them from the
+event or communication streams they are abusing.  This also includes further
+measures, such as pursuing University action, should it become necessary.
+
+Reporting
+---------
+
+If someone is making you feel unsafe or unwelcome at HacSoc, please report it as
+soon as possible. At events such as Link-State and HackCWRU, staff can be
+identified by their shirts. At other events, you can talk to the officers or
+Maintainer. And you may always report harassing behavior to officers via email
+(hacsoc-officers@case.edu) or via private message on Slack. If you don't feel
+comfortable reporting a problem to an officer, consider reporting the problem
+directly to any of the faculty or staff of the EECS department.
+
+Other Policies
+--------------
+
+As mentioned above, the policies of the `CWRU Handbook
+<https://students.case.edu/handbook/policy/>`_ are always applicable at HacSoc
+events and in HacSoc gathering spaces. Other policies that apply here are `ACM's
+<http://www.acm.org/about-acm/acm-code-of-ethics-and-professional-conduct>`_ and
+`IEEE's <http://www.ieee.org/about/ieee_code_of_conduct.pdf>`_, since HacSoc
+represents chapters of both organizations.
+
+.. [#hacsoc] In this code of conduct, we're using Hacker Society to refer to
+             "everything" - the ACM and IEEE chapters as well as the talk series
+             and mailing lists that are the backbone of our HacSoc community.

organizational/index.rst

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    hacsoc
    position_roles
+   conduct
    slack
    linkstate
    ordering_food