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+CWL Code of Conduct
+===================
+
+The CWL Project is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for
+everyone. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.
+
+This code of conduct applies to all CWL Project spaces both online and off: the
+Google Group, the Gitter chat room, the Google Hangouts chats, and any other
+CWL spaces. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned or
+expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the CWL Leadership Team.
+
+Some CWL Project spaces may have additional rules in place, which will be
+made clearly available to participants. Participants are responsible for
+knowing and abiding by these rules.
+
+Harassment includes, but is not limited to:
+
+ - Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual
+orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical
+appearance, body size, age, race, or religion.
+ - Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices,
+including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment.
+ - Deliberate misgendering or use of [dead](https://www.quora.com/What-is-deadnaming/answer/Nancy-C-Walker)
+or rejected names.
+ - Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behaviour  in spaces where they’re not
+appropriate.
+ - Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, textual descriptions like
+“\*hug\*” or “\*backrub\*”) without consent or after a request to stop.
+ - Threats of violence.
+ - Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person
+to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm.
+ - Deliberate intimidation.
+ - Stalking or following.
+ - Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for
+harassment purposes.
+ - Sustained disruption of discussion.
+ - Unwelcome sexual attention.
+ - Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming
+inappropriate levels of intimacy with others
+ - Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease.
+ - Deliberate “outing” of any aspect of a person’s identity without their consent
+except as necessary to protect vulnerable people from intentional abuse.
+ - Publication of non-harassing private communication.
+
+The CWL Project prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged
+people’s comfort. The CWL Leadeship Team will not act on complaints regarding:
+
+ - ‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’
+ - Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as “leave me alone,” “go away,” or
+“I’m not discussing this with you.”
+ - Communicating in a [tone](http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Tone_argument)
+you don’t find congenial
+
+Reporting
+---------
+
+If you are being harassed by a member of the CWL Project, notice that someone
+else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact the CWL
+Leadership Team at [email protected]. If person who is harassing
+you is on the team, they will recuse themselves from handling your incident. We
+will respond as promptly as we can.
+
+This code of conduct applies to CWL Project spaces, but if you are being
+harassed by a member of CWL Project outside our spaces, we still want to
+know about it. We will take all good-faith reports of harassment by CWL Project
+members, especially the CWL Leadership Team, seriously. This includes harassment
+outside our spaces and harassment that took place at any point in time. The
+abuse team reserves the right to exclude people from the CWL Project based on
+their past behavior, including behavior outside CWL Project spaces and
+behavior towards people who are not in the CWL Project.
+
+In order to protect volunteers from abuse and burnout, we reserve the right to
+reject any report we believe to have been made in bad faith. Reports intended
+to silence legitimate criticism may be deleted without response.
+
+We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting victims
+of abuse. At our discretion, we may publicly name a person about whom we’ve
+received harassment complaints, or privately warn third parties about them, if
+we believe that doing so will increase the safety of CWL Project members or
+the general public. We will not name harassment victims without their
+affirmative consent.
+
+Consequences
+------------
+
+Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply
+immediately.
+
+If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the CWL Leadership Team may
+take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from all
+CWL Project spaces and identification of the participant as a harasser to other
+CWL Project members or the general public.
+
+This anti-harassment policy is based on the [example policy from the Geek
+Feminism wiki](http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Community_anti-harassment/Policy),
+created by the Geek Feminism community.
+
+CWL Leadership Team
+-------------------
+
+As a stop gap measure until a more formal governance structure is adopted, the
+following individuals make up the leadership of the CWL Project: Peter Amstutz,
+John Chilton, Michael R. Crusoe, and Nebojša Tijanić.
+
+To report an issue with anyone on the team you can escalate to Ward Vandewege
+ (Curoverse) [email protected], Anton Nekrutenko (Galaxy)
+anton AT bx DOT psu DOT edu, C. Titus Brown (UC Davis) [email protected], or
+Brandi Davis-Dusenbery (Seven Bridges Genomics) [email protected].