Code of Conduct

The organisers are committed to making this meeting productive and enjoyable for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, nationality, religion or academic position. We will not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.

Please follow these guidelines:

Behave professionally. Harassment and sexist, racist, or exclusionary comments or jokes are not appropriate. Harassment includes sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, sexual attention or innuendo, deliberate intimidation, stalking, and photography or recording of an individual without consent. It also includes offensive comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, race or religion.

All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of many different backgrounds. Sexual or sexist language and imagery is not appropriate.

Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other attendees.

Discretion should be used when posting any meeting pictures to social media sites, in particular to protect the privacy of individuals as part of large crowd scenes. Consent for photography may be assumed when the subject is giving a talk during this meeting. In addition, attendance of the meeting signifies consent for appearing in the background of photos where the individual is not the central focus of the image. Publicising/posting photos of individuals without consent is not permitted.

Any participant who wishes to report a violation of this policy is asked to speak, in confidence, to a member of the committee or to GRADNet.

The above code of conduct is the same as in last years conference (The Big Data Era in Astronomy) and the previous years (From Infinity to Zero), based on the Code "Euclid meeting Code of Conduct", which was originally based upon the “London Code of Conduct”, as originally designed for the conference “Accurate Astrophysics. Correct Cosmology”, held in London in July 2015. The London Code was adapted with permission by Andrew Pontzen and Hiranya Peiris from a document by Software Carpentry, which itself derives from original Creative Commons documents by PyCon and Geek Feminism. It is released under a CC-Zero licence for reuse.