Code of Conduct

This Code of Conduct covers behavior in projects managed by Open Tech Strategies, LLC (OTS).

Our Pledge

In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as contributors and maintainers pledge to making participation in our projects and our community a harassment-free experience for everyone.

Our Standards

Examples of behavior that contributes to creating a positive environment include:

• Using welcoming and inclusive language

• Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences

• Gracefully accepting constructive criticism

• Focusing on what is best for the community

• Showing empathy towards other community members

Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:

• The use of sexualized language or imagery and unwelcome sexual attention or advances

• Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks

• Public or private harassment

• Publishing others' private information, such as a physical or electronic address, without explicit permission

Our Responsibilities

For the purposes of this Code of Conduct, "project maintainers" means persons delegated by OTS partners as managing designated projects.

Project maintainers are responsible for clarifying the standards of acceptable behavior within the projects they maintain and are expected to take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any instances of unacceptable behavior.

Project maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, or to ban temporarily or permanently any contributor for other behaviors that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.

Scope

This Code of Conduct applies both within project spaces and in public spaces when an individual is representing the project or its community. Examples of representing a project or community include using an official project e-mail address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed representative at an online or offline event. Representation of a project may be further defined and clarified by project maintainers or by OTS partners.

Reporting and Enforcement

Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported by contacting either the appropriate project maintainer(s) or by contacting one or more partners at Open Tech Strategies, LLC. Contacted parties will review, investigate, and handle complaints in the manner that they deem appropriate to the circumstances. The contacted parties will maintain confidentiality with regard to the reporter of an incident, except that a project maintainer may involve an OTS partner in this process if the maintainer deems it necessary. However, if a complaint involves an OTS partner, those handling it will maintain confidentiality with regard to that partner.

If a complaint were to involve all OTS partners, there would no way to handle it at all. Therefore this Code of Conduct does not promise confidentiality from OTS partners in that circumstance.

Attribution

This Code of Conduct is adapted from the Contributor Covenant, version 1.4.