CW24 - Attendee Procedure For Reporting Harassment

  1. Please contact any member of the Code of Conduct (CoC) Committee:
    • Neil Chue Hong, Software Sustainability Institute Director, N.ChueHong@software.ac.uk
    • Shoaib Sufi, Software Sustainability Institute Community Lead, shoaib.sufi@software.ac.uk 
    • Aleks Nenadic, Software Sustainability Institute Training Lead, a.nenadic@software.ac.uk 
    • Patricia Herterich, CW24 Chair, patricia.herterich@gmail.com
    • Oscar Seip, Software Sustainability Institute Research Software Community Officer, o.seip@software.ac.uk
    • Riva Quiroga, SSI Fellow, riva.quiroga@uc.cl

The CoC Committee is prepared to handle the incident. All of our Committee members are informed of the Code of Conduct policy and guide for handling harassment at the workshop. There will be a mandatory CoC Committee meeting just prior to the workshop when this will be reiterated as well.

  1. Report the harassment incident via private message in Slack or as an email to a member of the CoC Committee. All reports are confidential.
  2. When reporting the event to a CoC Committee member, try to gather as much information as available, but do not interview people about the incident. The Committee member will assist you in writing the report/collecting information.
  3. The important information we need consists of:
    • Identifying information (name) of the participant doing the harassing
    • The behaviour that was in violation
    • The approximate time of the behaviour (if different than the time the report was made)
    • The circumstances surrounding the incident
    • Other people involved in the incident
  4. The CoC Committee will handle the incident following the Staff Procedure For Handling Reported Harassment.
  5. If you do feel your safety is in jeopardy, please do not hesitate to contact the Police by dialling 999. If you do not have a mobile phone, simply ask a staff member. The police non-emergency number is 101.
    • If you are participating remotely and feel that your personal safety is in jeopardy at any time then contact your local Police / law enforcement service.

Acknowledgement

This procedure has been adopted from the Ada Initiative's guide titled "workshop anti-harassment/Responding to Reports”.

Last reviewed in December 2023