RedWax Code of Conduct - version 1.0

Based on the Debian Code of Conduct, Version 1.0 ratified on April 
28th, 2014.

The RedWax Project have adopted a code of conduct for participants to 
its mailinglists, IRC channels and other modes of communication within 
the project.

1. Be respectful

In a project the size of RedWax, inevitably there will be people with 
whom you may disagree, or find it difficult to cooperate. Accept that, 
but even so, remain respectful. Disagreement is no excuse for poor 
behaviour or personal attacks, and a community in which people feel 
threatened is not a healthy community.

2. Assume good faith

RedWax Contributors have many ways of reaching our common goal of tools
that further federated, secure, trusted (and trust no-one) communication 
and identity management that follows your governance needs.  Assume that
other people are working towards this goal.

Note that many of our Contributors are not native English speakers or 
may have different cultural backgrounds.

3. Be collaborative

RedWax is a large and complex project; there is always more to learn 
within RedWax. It's good to ask for help when you need it. Similarly, 
offers for help should be seen in the context of our shared goal of 
improving RedWax.

When you make something for the benefit of the project, be willing to 
explain to others how it works, so that they can build on your work to 
make it even better.

4. Try to be concise

Keep in mind that what you write once will be read by hundreds of 
persons. Writing a short email means people can understand the 
conversation as efficiently as possible. When a long explanation is 
necessary, consider adding a summary.

Try to bring new arguments to a conversation so that each mail adds 
something unique to the thread, keeping in mind that the rest of the 
thread still contains the other messages with arguments that have 
already been made.

Try to stay on topic, especially in discussions that are already fairly 
large.

5. Be open

Most ways of communication used within RedWax allow for public and 
private communication. As per paragraph three of the social contract, 
you should preferably use public methods of communication for 
RedWax-related messages, unless posting something sensitive.

This applies to messages for help or RedWax-related support, too; not 
only is a public support request much more likely to result in an 
answer to your question, it also makes sure that any inadvertent 
mistakes made by people answering your question will be more easily 
detected and corrected.

In case of problems

While this code of conduct should be adhered to by participants, we 
recognize that sometimes people may have a bad day, or be unaware of 
some of the guidelines in this code of conduct. When that happens, you 
may reply to them and point out this code of conduct. Such messages may 
be in public or in private, whatever is most appropriate. However, 
regardless of whether the message is public or not, it should still 
adhere to the relevant parts of this code of conduct; in particular, it 
should not be abusive or disrespectful. Assume good faith; it is more 
likely that participants are unaware of their bad behaviour than that 
they intentionally try to degrade the quality of the discussion.

Serious or persistent offenders will be temporarily or permanently 
banned from communicating through RedWax's systems. Complaints should 
be made (in private) to the administrators of the RedWax communication 
forum in question. To find contact information for these 
administrators, please see the page on RedWax's organizational and 
governance structure.