Everyone gets to take part

The short version

Be decent to people. Assume good faith. Argue with ideas, not with the person holding them. If someone tells you to stop, stop.

Expected behaviour

• Use welcoming and inclusive language.
• Respect differing viewpoints, experience levels and the fact that people are joining from thirty-odd countries and as many first languages.
• Accept constructive criticism gracefully, and give it kindly.
• Keep questions and chat on topic and in good faith. The Q&A is for questions, not speeches.
• Credit other people's work. If you are presenting research that is not yours, say so.

Unacceptable behaviour

• Harassment of any kind, including offensive comments related to gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, nationality, age, religion or technology choices.
• Sexualised language or imagery, and unwelcome sexual attention.
• Deliberate intimidation, stalking, doxxing, or publishing others' private information without explicit permission.
• Sustained disruption of sessions, chat, Q&A or expo booths.
• Advocating for or encouraging any of the above, including "just joking".
• Using the event to recruit aggressively, spam attendees, or scrape contact details. Sponsors may contact only attendees who opted in to hear from them.

A note on security content

This is a security conference, so sessions will discuss real attacks, real compromised packages and real incidents. That is expected and welcome. Naming an organisation's failure in a technical post-mortem is fine. Using a session, a question or the chat to humiliate a named individual — a maintainer, a colleague, an incident responder — is not.

Reporting

If you experience or witness a breach of this code, or have any other concern, contact us immediately at conduct@chainday.live. Reports go to the organising team only and are handled confidentially.

Tell us whatever you can — all of these help but none are required:

• What happened, and roughly when (a timestamp in the stream is ideal).
• Which session, stage, chat or booth it happened in.
• Whether anyone else saw it.
• Whether you want us to contact you back, or just to have it on record.

During the event we aim to acknowledge reports within thirty minutes. We will not require you to confront anyone, and we will not share your identity with the person reported without your consent.

Consequences

The organising team may take any action it judges appropriate, including a warning, removal from chat, removal from the event without refund (the event is free, so this costs us nothing and will not be weighed against taking action), cancelling a speaking slot mid-session, terminating a sponsorship without refund, and banning the person from future editions.

Sponsors are held to exactly the same standard as everyone else. A paid tier buys airtime, not latitude.

Scope

This code applies to all event spaces and to behaviour outside them when it affects the safety of participants — for example, harassment of a speaker on social media because of something they presented here.

Attribution and licence

Adapted from the Contributor Covenant v2.1 and the Django Code of Conduct. This document is published under CC BY 4.0 — take it and use it for your own event.