Code of Conduct

The participants to the workshop are scientists from around the globe with a diverse set of skills, personalities, and experiences. It is through these differences that our community experiences success and continued growth. We expect everyone in the workshop to follow these guidelines when interacting with others. Our goal is to keep this a positive, inclusive, successful, and growing workshop.

As participants to the workshop,

• We pledge to treat all people with respect and provide a harassment- and bullying-free environment, regardless of sex, sexual orientation and/or gender identity, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, nationality, ethnicity, and religion. In particular, sexual language and imagery, sexist, racist, or otherwise exclusionary jokes are not appropriate.

• We pledge to respect the work of others by recognizing acknowledgment/citation requests of original authors. As authors, we pledge to be explicit about how we want our own work to be cited or acknowledged.

• We pledge to welcome those interested in establishing a collaboration, and realize that including people with a variety of opinions and backgrounds will only serve to enrich our community. In particular, discussions relating to pros/cons of various technologies, programming languages, statistical approaches and so on are welcome. These should be done with respect, taking proactive measure to ensure that all participants are heard and feel confident that they can freely express their opinions.

• We pledge to welcome questions and answer them respectfully, paying particular attention to those new to our science community. We pledge to provide respectful criticisms and feedback, especially in discussion sessions.

• We pledge to be conscientious of the perceptions of the participants and to respond to criticism respectfully. We will strive to model behaviors that encourage productive debate and disagreement. We will treat those outside our community with the same respect as people within it.

• We pledge to help all workshop participants follow the code of conduct, and to not remain silent when we see violations of the code of conduct. We will take action when members of our community violate this code such as contacting the organizers (all emails sent to this address will be treated with the strictest confidence) or talking privately with those involved.

This code of conduct applies to all the workshop activities including online and offline ones, e.g. mail exchanges, workshop sessions, social events, and one-to-one interactions. This code of conduct has been adapted from the Astropy Community Code of Conduct.