London BitDevs aims to be an open forum dedicated in discussing and participating in the research and development of Bitcoin and related protocols, in a fair, neutral and productive fashion. In pursuit of those aims, London BitDevs organizers aim to preserve and enforce some specific principles.
During a London BitDevs event, discrimination of any kind towards other event participants are not tolerated. London BitDevs aims to foster fair participant of all people, including those of underrepresented groups.
An harrasment is a form of discrimination offendning a specific event participant. Offensive conduct may include, but is not limited to, offensive jokes, slurs, epithets, or name calling, physical assaults or threats, intimidation, ridicule or mockery, insults or put-downs, offensive objects or picture, and interference with technical discussions.
The offensive criteria must be evaluated in accordance with the manners of London BitDevs as an open forum of technical discussions. It should not be used in in bad faith, or prevent discussions of controvesial technical subjects, including one related to procedural aspects of Bitcoin FOSS developemnt process.
During a London BitDevs event, ostensible and abusive promotion of commercial material or products should not be conducted by a participant. Mentions of commercial products by a participant, even as a party of interest in the commercial material, is allowed as long as this is relevant to the technical matters discussed. It is generally welcomed to be transparent with other participants when one is a party of interest in a mentioned commercial material.
Special time during the event can be still be reserved to announcements by the financial and organizational event sponsors.
In the occurence of technical topics generating sustained contention during an extended period of time among the Bitcoin community (e.g softforks activation), London BitDevs aims to be a neutral and respectful space for every viewpoint present in wider Bitcoin community’s communication channels.
During a London BitDevs event, organizers can recall the neutrality the principle to moderate a discussion and distribute fairly time of expression between participants.
During a London BitDevs event, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity, or the affiliation of the speaker, nor that of any other participant can be revealed.
Taking of photos or videos is generally not allowed and respect of the privacy of other members is requested.
All London BitDevs meetup members are invited to uphold, promote, and respect the principles of the code, during the events and the informal social gatherings around the events.
In case of observed violations, please reach out to the code committe members:
One of the member will acknowledge reception of an alleguation of violation under 96 hours to the complainant.
Once the code committe members have synced themselves on the subject, they will reached out to the subject of complaint and invite to give its version of facts and line of defense under a delay of 1 week, unless circumstances request more time.
After receiving the subject answer, or in the lack of it after the delay of 1 week, the code committe members will sync themselves on the remediations actions to take, if justified.
If they estimate there is no ground to take a remediation action they will inform the complainant of the result.
If they estimate there is ground to take a remediation action among the following:
All the information nature and content communicatted to the code committer members during the enforcement process will be treated confidentialy, and only disclosed if grounded to appropriate authorities.
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