The Samvera Code of Conduct applies within all community spaces, but Samvera also operates within a set of community guidelines that are different from our code Code of conductConduct. Community Guidelines guidelines embrace the everyday activities of the Samvera community and serve as the principles in which our members act and collaborate.
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Samvera strives to be an open and welcoming place for our community. We prioritize people over products. We seek to maintain space and opportunities for everyone to participate. We welcome the free exchange of ideas by creating space for people to contribute without worrying that they will be dehumanized. When perspectives differ, we welcome them because we know that the community benefits from diversity of people, skills, opinions, and ideas.
We seek to be open and welcoming by:
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Participation & Collaboration
The Samvera community Community centers on participatory collaboration. We seek inclusiveness for contributors at different levels of experience and for different types of contributions that don't only relate to coding. Technical contributions are of course critical to the growth and sustainability of the Samvera codebases, however our community thrives because of the entirety/full spectrum of contributions made by its members. We strive to maintain an environment where people feel welcome to contribute, and supported all along the way.
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We strive to make decisions in the best interest of the community as a whole
We will communicate and seek a collaborative process on decisions - from pull requests to event planning to election of new board members
The governance model put into place in 2018 provides structure for informed and open decision making process
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