We pledge to make participation in Catenary’s community a welcoming, inclusive, and enjoyable experience for everyone. We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and healthy community, and hold everyone in our community to the same high standard. Catenary development is built on three key principles that we expect all community members to keep in mind:
- Strong ideas, loosely held. We’re not afraid to call out things that look wrong, and we always stay open to constructive criticism and feedback. We work to solve the most challenging technical problems in transit, and understand that we can only do it together.
- Love for transit and its riders. We love our public transit, and we want to see more of it. We understand that transit is for everyone, and we always design our products for transit riders from all backgrounds.
- Be excellent to each other. Catenary is built around this shared love of public transit, and we need the help of every contributor to keep our community welcoming, diverse, and healthy.
Keep in mind that all development and work for Catenary is voluntary! We care about our contributors and would not like to see anyone stressed about this project. Any suggestions made by Guides are just that -- only guidance and advice on how we think a task can be handled. Contributors (and Guides!) can drop any tasks they take on if it proves to be too much to handle, and they can say no to any requests made by other devs and Guides for tasks to be completed. Please only do what you're comfortable and capable of doing! Also, do not that Catenary does not have the means of compensanting anyone for their work besides a (metaphorical) good pat on the back. We hope that making these boundaries clear will make volunteering for Catenary a more pleasant experience!
Examples of behavior that contributes to a positive environment for our community include:
- Demonstrating empathy and kindness toward other people
- Sharing 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 include:
- Insulting or derogatory comments and personal attacks
- Disparaging transit systems and the people that use them
- Harassment and doxxing
- Impersonation of a Catenary official
Catenary’s communications team leads code of conduct enforcement, and is responsible for clarifying and enforcing our standards of acceptable behavior. You can identify them because their names are lime green in our Discord server. Communications officers will take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any behavior that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful, and have the right and responsibility to remove or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to these guidelines.
Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported to Catenary’s communications team by direct messaging the Catenary account on any social media platform, or by emailing Public Information Officer Samuel Sharp at [email protected], so your complaint can reach a communications officer. All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly, and we will aim to respect the privacy and security of the reporter of any incident.
These Community Impact Guidelines will be used to determine the consequences for any action deemed in violation of this Code of Conduct:
1 - Correction
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.
2 - Warning
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.
3 - Temporary 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.
4. 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 public interaction within the community.
This Code of Conduct is inspired by and draws language from version 2.1 of the Contributor Covenant. This document shall take precedence over the standard Contributor Covenant, and was developed in-house by Catenary’s communications team.
This document is subject to change at any time and without notice.
