Be excellent to each other; we’re a community after all. If you run into issues with others in our community, please contact a Exodus Community Dev, or Moderator.
The Exodus Community includes members of varying skills, languages, personalities, cultural backgrounds, and experiences from around the globe. Through these differences, we continue to grow and collectively improve upon an open-source animation engine. When working in a community, it is important to remember that you are interacting with humans on the other end of your screen. This code of conduct will guide your interactions and keep Exodus a positive environment for our developers, users, and fundamentally our growing community.
Members of Exodus Community are respectful, open, and considerate. Behaviors that reinforce these values contribute to our positive environment, and include: Being respectful. Respectful of others, their positions, experiences, viewpoints, skills, commitments, time, and efforts. Being open. Open to collaboration, whether it’s on problems, Pull Requests, issues, or otherwise. Being considerate. Considerate of their peers – other Exodus users and developers. Focusing on what is best for the community. We’re respectful of the processes set forth in the community, and we work within them. Showing empathy towards other community members. We’re attentive in our communications, whether in person or online, and we’re tactful when approaching differing views. Gracefully accepting constructive criticism. When we disagree, we are courteous in raising our issues. Using welcoming and inclusive language. We’re accepting of all who wish to take part in our activities, fostering an environment where anyone can participate and everyone can make a difference.
Every member of our community has the right to have their identity respected. Exodus Community is dedicated to providing a positive environment for everyone, regardless of age, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, ethnicity, nationality, race, religion (or lack thereof), education, or socioeconomic status.
- Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:
- Harassment of any participants in any form
- Deliberate intimidation, stalking, or following
- Logging or taking screenshots of online activity for harassment purposes
- Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or electronic address, without explicit permission
- Violent threats or language directed against another person
- Incitement of violence or harassment towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm
- Creating additional online accounts in order to harass another person or circumvent a ban
- Sexual language and imagery in online communities or any conference venue, including talks
- Insults, put-downs, or jokes that are based upon stereotypes, that are exclusionary, or that hold others up for ridicule
- Excessive swearing
- Unwelcome sexual attention or advances
- Unwelcome physical contact, including simulated physical contact (eg, textual descriptions like “hug” or “backrub”) without consent or after a request to stop
- Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others
- Sustained disruption of online community discussions, in-person presentations, or other in-person events
- Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease
- Other conduct that is inappropriate for a professional audience including people of many different backgrounds Community members asked to stop any inappropriate behavior are expected to comply immediately.