These Community Participation Guidelines are also used by the LD4 Conferences.
In order to create a welcoming and inclusive space that encourages engagement, collaboration, and sharing of ideas, the LD4 Community has adopted these community participation guidelines and requires that anyone participating in LD4-affiliated efforts adhere to them. An LD4-affiliated effort is an activity or space that is sponsored, hosted, or initiated by the LD4 project; this includes virtual activities and spaces (e.g., Slack, GitHub, mailing lists, conference calls, web conferencing and email) as well as in-person activities and spaces. For in-person events, participants are required to adhere to codes of conduct of LD4 and the host institution.
We aim to ensure that all participants feel respected, safe, and welcome regardless of ability, age, background, gender and gender identity or expression, native language, citizenship status, race and ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or any other characteristic or dimension of identity.
LD4 does not tolerate discrimination based on these characteristics, nor do we tolerate harassment of any kind, including but not limited to:
Sustained disruption of discussion;
Stalking, following or continued one-on-one communications after being asked to cease;
Deliberate sharing of personal or private information about a person without their consent;
Unwanted sexual attention or sexual innuendo;
Violence, threats of violence, inciting violence or deliberate intimidation and personal attacks.
To report an issue related to the LD4 Community Participation Guidelines, please email ld4-steering@googlegroups.com; the issue will be directed to the LD4 Steering Committee. This report will be treated with confidentiality except where further reporting is required by law or institutional mandate of the individual receiving the report. Reports can be concise; however, providing more information (such as a description of the behavior, where and when it occurred and the individuals involved) will help the LD4 Steering Committee better understand the situation.
Anyone asked to stop unacceptable behavior is expected to comply immediately. Violation of these Community Participation Guidelines may result in the person demonstrating that behavior being asked to immediately disassociate from the LD4-affiliated effort, either temporarily or in perpetuity.
This set of guidelines is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.
These guidelines were adopted in November 2019 and last updated in June 2025. They will be reviewed annually by the Steering Committee.
Consulted Resources
Elasticsearch B.V. "Elastic Community Code of Conduct", accessed 20190925
Finos. "Community Code of Conduct", accessed 20190925
MediaWiki. "Code of Conduct", accessed 20190925
Mozilla Foundation. "Mozilla Community Participation Guidelines Version 3.0 – Updated November 28, 2018", accessed 20190925
Ubuntu Community. "Ubuntu Code of Conduct v2.0", accessed 20190925
Wikiversity. "WikiJournal User Group/Code of conduct/General", accessed 20190925