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+# GeoPandas Project Code of Conduct
+
+Behind the GeoPandas Project is an engaged and respectful community made up of
+people from all over the world and with a wide range of backgrounds. Naturally,
+this implies diversity of ideas and perspectives on often complex problems.
+Disagreement and healthy discussion of conflicting viewpoints is welcome: the
+best solutions to hard problems rarely come from a single angle. But
+disagreement is not an excuse for aggression: humans tend to take disagreement
+personally and easily drift into behavior that ultimately degrades a community.
+This is particularly acute with online communication across language and
+cultural gaps, where many cues of human behavior are unavailable. We are
+outlining here a set of principles and processes to support a healthy community
+in the face of these challenges.
+
+Fundamentally, we are committed to fostering a productive, harassment-free
+environment for everyone. Rather than considering this code an exhaustive list
+of things that you can’t do, take it in the spirit it is intended - a guide to
+make it easier to enrich all of us and the communities in which we participate.
+
+Importantly: as a member of our community, _you are also a steward of these
+values_. Not all problems need to be resolved via formal processes, and often a
+quick, friendly but clear word on an online forum or in person can help resolve
+a misunderstanding and de-escalate things.
+
+However, sometimes these informal processes may be inadequate: they fail to
+work, there is urgency or risk to someone, nobody is intervening publicly and
+you don't feel comfortable speaking in public, etc. For these or other reasons,
+structured follow-up may be necessary and here we provide the means for that: we
+welcome reports by emailing
+[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
+or by filling out
+[this form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8Tbi2zNl1i2N9COX0yavHEqTGFIPQ1_cLcy1A3JgVc1OrAQ/viewform).
+
+This code applies equally to founders, developers, mentors and new community
+members, in all spaces managed by the GeoPandas Project. This includes the
+mailing lists, our GitHub organization, our chat room, in-person events, and any
+other forums created by the project team. In addition, violations of this code
+outside these spaces may affect a person's ability to participate within them.
+
+By embracing the following principles, guidelines and actions to follow or
+avoid, you will help us make the GeoPandas Project a welcoming and productive
+community. Feel free to contact the Code of Conduct Committee at
+[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
+with any questions.
+
+1. **Be friendly and patient**.
+
+2. **Be welcoming**. We strive to be a community that welcomes and supports
+   people of all backgrounds and identities. This includes, but is not limited
+   to, members of any race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, color,
+   immigration status, social and economic class, educational level, sex, sexual
+   orientation, gender identity and expression, age, physical appearance, family
+   status, technological or professional choices, academic
+   discipline, religion, mental ability, and physical ability.
+
+3. **Be considerate**. Your work will be used by other people, and you in turn
+   will depend on the work of others. Any decision you take will affect users
+   and colleagues, and you should take those consequences into account when
+   making decisions. Remember that we're a world-wide community. You may be
+   communicating with someone with a different primary language or cultural
+   background.
+
+4. **Be respectful**. Not all of us will agree all the time, but disagreement is
+   no excuse for poor behavior or poor manners. We might all experience some
+   frustration now and then, but we cannot allow that frustration to turn into a
+   personal attack. A community where people feel uncomfortable or threatened is
+   not a productive one.
+
+5. **Be careful in the words that you choose**. Be kind to others. Do not insult
+   or put down other community members. Harassment and other exclusionary
+   behavior are not acceptable. This includes, but is not limited to:
+
+    - Violent threats or violent language directed against another person
+    - Discriminatory jokes and language
+    - Posting sexually explicit or violent material
+    - Posting (or threatening to post) other people's personally identifying
+      information ("doxing")
+    - Personal insults, especially those using racist, sexist, and xenophobic terms
+    - Unwelcome sexual attention
+    - Advocating for, or encouraging, any of the above behavior
+
+    **In general, if someone asks you to stop, then stop.**
+
+6. **Moderate your expectations**. Please respect that community members choose
+   how they spend their time in the project. A thoughtful question about your
+   expectations is preferable to demands for another person's time.
+
+7. **When we disagree, try to understand why**. Disagreements, both social and
+   technical, happen all the time, and the GeoPandas Project is no exception. Try to
+   understand where others are coming from, as seeing a question from their
+   viewpoint may help find a new path forward. And don’t forget that it is
+   human to err: blaming each other doesn’t get us anywhere, while we can learn
+   from mistakes to find better solutions.
+
+8. **A simple apology can go a long way**. It can often de-escalate a situation,
+   and telling someone that you are sorry is an act of empathy that doesn’t
+   automatically imply an admission of guilt.
+
+## Reporting
+
+If you believe someone is violating the code of conduct, please report this in
+a timely manner. Code of conduct violations reduce the value of the community
+for everyone and we take them seriously.
+
+You can file a report by emailing
+[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
+or by filing out
+[this form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8Tbi2zNl1i2N9COX0yavHEqTGFIPQ1_cLcy1A3JgVc1OrAQ/viewform).
+
+The online form gives you the option to keep your report anonymous or request
+that we follow up with you directly. While we cannot follow up on an anonymous
+report, we will take appropriate action.
+
+Messages sent to the e-mail address or through the form will be sent only to the
+Code of Conduct Committee. Code of Conduct Committee Members are listed
+[here](./membership/CodeOfConductSubcommittee.md).
+
+## Enforcement
+
+Enforcement procedures within the GeoPandas Project follow Project Jupyter's
+[Enforcement Manual](https://github.com/jupyter/governance/blob/master/conduct/enforcement.md).
+For information on enforcement, please view the
+[original manual](https://github.com/jupyter/governance/blob/master/conduct/enforcement.md).
+
+Original text courtesy of the
+[Speak Up!](http://web.archive.org/web/20141109123859/http://speakup.io/coc.html),
+[Django](https://www.djangoproject.com/conduct) and
+[Jupyter](https://github.com/jupyter/governance/blob/master/conduct/code_of_conduct.md)
+projects, modified by the GeoPandas Project. We are grateful to those projects
+for contributing these materials under open licensing terms for us to easily
+reuse.
+
+All content on this page is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) license.