The “community” in this document refers to any of the Cyber Security Non-Profit community spaces, including meetups, Slack channels, Teams spaces, or any other gathering of two or more members of the Cyber Security Non-Profit organization. Please reach out to info@csnp.org with any questions or concerns. 

 

Our Goal

Our community is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form. Our organization is dedicated to providing a safe and inclusive community for everyone. Applicability and Scope This code of conduct applies to all spaces, including public channels, private channels, rooms, venues, direct messages, either online or offline. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of their chapter leadership, or a vote of the National board. Some spaces may have additional rules in place, which will be made clearly available to participants. Participants are responsible for knowing and abiding by these rules. Toward a Welcoming and Safe Environment We hope to create an environment in which diverse individuals can collaborate and interact in a positive and affirming way. Examples of behavior that contributes to creating this sort of 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 overall community

• Showing empathy towards other community members

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Anti-Harassment Statement

This community will not tolerate harassment of any kind. Examples of harassment include:

• Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, pregnancy status, veteran status, political affiliation, marital status, body size, age, race, national origin, ethnic origin, nationality, immigration status, language, religion or lack thereof, or other identity marker. This includes anti-Indigenous/Native and anti-black speech or rhetoric.

• Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, relationships, drugs, and employment.

• Deliberate misgendering, using inappropriate pronouns, or use of “dead” or rejected names.

• Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behavior in spaces where they’re not appropriate.

• Physical contact and simulated physical contact (e.g., textual descriptions like “hug” or “backrub”) without consent or after a request to stop.

• Threats of violence.

• Incitement of violence towards any individual or group, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm.

• Deliberate intimidation.

• Stalking or following - online or in the physical world.

• Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes.

• Sustained disruption of discussion.

• Unwelcome sexual attention.

• Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others.

• Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease.

• Deliberate “outing” of any aspect of a person’s identity without their consent except as necessary to protect vulnerable people from intentional abuse.

• Publication of non-harassing private communication.

• Jokes that resemble the above behavior, even if meant satirically or ironically.

• This slack community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. The administrators will not act on complaints regarding:

  • “Reverse”-isms, including “reverse racism,” “reverse sexism,” and “cisphobia”

  • Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as “leave me alone,” “go away,” or “I’m not discussing this with you.”

  • Communicating in a “tone” you don’t find congenial

  • Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions If you have questions or concerns about these issues, please reach out to info@csnp.org or visit the #couldhavegonebetter channel for an opportunity to explore the issue with a moderator and volunteers.

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Reporting Harassment Online

If you are being harassed by a member of our community, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact your chapter leadership, or an administrator of the collaboration tool. If the person who is harassing you is on the admin team, they will not be involved in handling or resolving the incident. The admin team will respond to any complaint as promptly as possible. If you do not get a timely response (for example, if no admins are currently online) then please put your personal safety and well-being first, and consider logging out of the tool and/or contacting leadership directly through either email or meetup.com.

 

This code of conduct applies to all our community’s spaces, but if you are being harassed by a member of our community outside our spaces, we still want to know about it. We will take all good-faith reports of harassment by our members, especially those in authority, seriously. This includes harassment outside our spaces and harassment that took place at any point in time. The abuse team reserves the right to exclude people from the community based on their past behavior, including behavior outside of our spaces and behavior towards people who are not in this slack. In order to protect volunteers from abuse and burnout, we reserve the right to reject any report we believe to have been made in bad faith. Reports intended to silence legitimate criticism may be deleted without response.

 

Enforcement Process

Every code of conduct violation report will be treated with seriousness and care. If a member’s immediate safety and security is threatened, chapter leaders have the authority to act appropriately under the law. Within the scope of our collaboration tools, this means a leader may ban a user immediately, or in less urgent situations, at least two admins will discuss the offense and mutually arrive at a suitable response, which will be shared with the offender privately. Whatever the resolution that they decide upon, the decision of the admins involved in a violation case will be considered final. We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting victims of abuse. At our discretion, we may publicly name a person about whom we’ve received harassment complaints, or privately warn third parties about them, if we believe that doing so will increase the safety of our members or the general public. We will not name harassment victims without their affirmative consent.