BlockShop was created to foster innovation and a welcoming environment. Over the years, we've grown it into a diverse community that helps personal projects and startups take off and mature. Maintaining this diverse environment has its costs. Companies like GitHub, Amazon, Google, Adobe, Inca Digital, The Giving Block, and others have contributed their resources to keep the lights on. More importantly, engineers from all over the world have volunteered their time to help our projects succeed. The very minimal pledge we ask of you is to be nice to other contributors. Here, they are not your bosses or employees, they are our community members. We don't discriminate based on race, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, physical abilities, political views, or age. Keep your debates civil, open source as much as you can, and don't forget about attribution.
Here's some legal language below to convince you that we are serious about enforcing that short paragraph above.
Examples of behavior that contributes to creating a positive environment include:
- Asking over demanding language
- Demonstrating empathy and kindness toward other people
- Being respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences
- Giving and gracefully accepting constructive feedback
- Accepting responsibility and apologizing to those affected by our mistakes, and learning from the experience
- Focusing on what is best not just for us as individuals, but for the overall community
Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:
- Physical, legal, or career threats
- Public or private harassment
- Bossing people around
- The use of sexualized language or imagery, and sexual attention or advances of any kind
- Trolling, insulting or derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
- Publishing others' private information, such as a physical or email address, without their explicit permission
- Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting
Community leaders are responsible for clarifying and enforcing our standards of acceptable behavior and will take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any behavior that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.
Community leaders 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, and will communicate reasons for moderation decisions when appropriate.
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, using video conferencing tools like Zoom and Google Meet under an official project e-mail address 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.
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 communicating via BlockShop's Google Workspace apps and Water Cooler chat channels.
Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported to the community leaders responsible for enforcement at [email protected]. All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly. All community leaders are obligated to respect the privacy and security of the reporter of any incident.
Community leaders will follow these Community Impact Guidelines in determining the consequences for any action they deem in violation of this Code of Conduct:
Community Impact: Use of inappropriate language or other behavior deemed unprofessional or unwelcome in the community.
Consequence: A private, written warning from community leaders, providing clarity around the nature of the violation and an explanation of why the behavior was inappropriate. A public apology may be requested.
Community Impact: A violation through a single incident or series of actions.
Consequence: A warning with consequences for continued behavior. No interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, for a specified period of time. This includes avoiding interactions in community spaces as well as external channels like social media. Violating these terms may lead to a temporary or permanent ban.
Community Impact: A serious violation of community standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior.
Consequence: A temporary ban from any sort of interaction or public communication with the community for a specified period of time. No public or private interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, is allowed during this period. Violating these terms may lead to a permanent ban.
Community Impact: Demonstrating a pattern of violation of community standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior, harassment of an individual, or aggression toward or disparagement of classes of individuals.
Consequence: A permanent ban from any sort of interaction within the community.
We didn't come up with this page because we were bored one day. A working Code of Conduct is an integral part of any open and welcoming community. This Code of Conduct is adapted from the Contributor Covenant. Community Impact Guidelines were inspired by Mozilla’s code of conduct enforcement ladder.