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 | 1 | +CWL Code of Conduct  | 
 | 2 | +===================  | 
 | 3 | + | 
 | 4 | +The CWL Project is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for  | 
 | 5 | +everyone. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.  | 
 | 6 | + | 
 | 7 | +This code of conduct applies to all CWL Project spaces both online and off: the  | 
 | 8 | +Google Group, the Gitter chat room, the Google Hangouts chats, and any other  | 
 | 9 | +CWL spaces. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned or  | 
 | 10 | +expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the CWL Leadership Team.  | 
 | 11 | + | 
 | 12 | +Some CWL Project spaces may have additional rules in place, which will be  | 
 | 13 | +made clearly available to participants. Participants are responsible for  | 
 | 14 | +knowing and abiding by these rules.  | 
 | 15 | + | 
 | 16 | +Harassment includes, but is not limited to:  | 
 | 17 | + | 
 | 18 | + - Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual  | 
 | 19 | +orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical  | 
 | 20 | +appearance, body size, age, race, or religion.  | 
 | 21 | + - Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices,  | 
 | 22 | +including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment.  | 
 | 23 | + - Deliberate misgendering or use of [dead](https://www.quora.com/What-is-deadnaming/answer/Nancy-C-Walker)  | 
 | 24 | +or rejected names.  | 
 | 25 | + - Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behaviour  in spaces where they’re not  | 
 | 26 | +appropriate.  | 
 | 27 | + - Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, textual descriptions like  | 
 | 28 | +“\*hug\*” or “\*backrub\*”) without consent or after a request to stop.  | 
 | 29 | + - Threats of violence.  | 
 | 30 | + - Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person  | 
 | 31 | +to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm.  | 
 | 32 | + - Deliberate intimidation.  | 
 | 33 | + - Stalking or following.  | 
 | 34 | + - Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for  | 
 | 35 | +harassment purposes.  | 
 | 36 | + - Sustained disruption of discussion.  | 
 | 37 | + - Unwelcome sexual attention.  | 
 | 38 | + - Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming  | 
 | 39 | +inappropriate levels of intimacy with others  | 
 | 40 | + - Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease.  | 
 | 41 | + - Deliberate “outing” of any aspect of a person’s identity without their consent  | 
 | 42 | +except as necessary to protect vulnerable people from intentional abuse.  | 
 | 43 | + - Publication of non-harassing private communication.  | 
 | 44 | + | 
 | 45 | +The CWL Project prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged  | 
 | 46 | +people’s comfort. The CWL Leadeship Team will not act on complaints regarding:  | 
 | 47 | + | 
 | 48 | + - ‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’  | 
 | 49 | + - Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as “leave me alone,” “go away,” or  | 
 | 50 | +“I’m not discussing this with you.”  | 
 | 51 | + - Communicating in a [tone](http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Tone_argument)  | 
 | 52 | +you don’t find congenial  | 
 | 53 | + | 
 | 54 | +Reporting  | 
 | 55 | +---------  | 
 | 56 | + | 
 | 57 | +If you are being harassed by a member of the CWL Project, notice that someone  | 
 | 58 | +else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact the CWL  | 
 | 59 | +Leadership Team at  [email protected]. If person who is harassing  | 
 | 60 | +you is on the team, they will recuse themselves from handling your incident. We  | 
 | 61 | +will respond as promptly as we can.  | 
 | 62 | + | 
 | 63 | +This code of conduct applies to CWL Project spaces, but if you are being  | 
 | 64 | +harassed by a member of CWL Project outside our spaces, we still want to  | 
 | 65 | +know about it. We will take all good-faith reports of harassment by CWL Project  | 
 | 66 | +members, especially the CWL Leadership Team, seriously. This includes harassment  | 
 | 67 | +outside our spaces and harassment that took place at any point in time. The  | 
 | 68 | +abuse team reserves the right to exclude people from the CWL Project based on  | 
 | 69 | +their past behavior, including behavior outside CWL Project spaces and  | 
 | 70 | +behavior towards people who are not in the CWL Project.  | 
 | 71 | + | 
 | 72 | +In order to protect volunteers from abuse and burnout, we reserve the right to  | 
 | 73 | +reject any report we believe to have been made in bad faith. Reports intended  | 
 | 74 | +to silence legitimate criticism may be deleted without response.  | 
 | 75 | + | 
 | 76 | +We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting victims  | 
 | 77 | +of abuse. At our discretion, we may publicly name a person about whom we’ve  | 
 | 78 | +received harassment complaints, or privately warn third parties about them, if  | 
 | 79 | +we believe that doing so will increase the safety of CWL Project members or  | 
 | 80 | +the general public. We will not name harassment victims without their  | 
 | 81 | +affirmative consent.  | 
 | 82 | + | 
 | 83 | +Consequences  | 
 | 84 | +------------  | 
 | 85 | + | 
 | 86 | +Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply  | 
 | 87 | +immediately.  | 
 | 88 | + | 
 | 89 | +If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the CWL Leadership Team may  | 
 | 90 | +take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from all  | 
 | 91 | +CWL Project spaces and identification of the participant as a harasser to other  | 
 | 92 | +CWL Project members or the general public.  | 
 | 93 | + | 
 | 94 | +This anti-harassment policy is based on the [example policy from the Geek  | 
 | 95 | +Feminism wiki](http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Community_anti-harassment/Policy),  | 
 | 96 | +created by the Geek Feminism community.  | 
 | 97 | + | 
 | 98 | +CWL Leadership Team  | 
 | 99 | +-------------------  | 
 | 100 | + | 
 | 101 | +As a stop gap measure until a more formal governance structure is adopted, the  | 
 | 102 | +following individuals make up the leadership of the CWL Project: Peter Amstutz,  | 
 | 103 | +John Chilton, Michael R. Crusoe, and Nebojša Tijanić.  | 
 | 104 | + | 
 | 105 | +To report an issue with anyone on the team you can escalate to Ward Vandewege  | 
 | 106 | + (Curoverse)  [email protected], Anton Nekrutenko (Galaxy)  | 
 | 107 | +anton AT bx DOT psu DOT edu, C. Titus Brown (UC Davis)  [email protected], or  | 
 | 108 | +Brandi Davis-Dusenbery (Seven Bridges Genomics)  [email protected].  | 
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