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Conduct & Safety

Code4Lib Community Code of Conduct

Code4Lib seeks to provide a welcoming, fun, and safe community and conference experience and ongoing community for everyone. We do not tolerate harassment in any form. Discriminatory language and imagery (including sexual) is not appropriate for any event venue, including talks, or any community channel such as the chatroom or mailing list.

Harassment is understood as any behavior that threatens another person or group, or produces an unsafe environment. It includes offensive verbal comments or non-verbal expressions related to gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religious beliefs, sexual or discriminatory images in public spaces (including online), deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention.
—CodeOfConduct4Lib

➳ Read and contribute to our full Code of Conduct document on GitHub

Emergency Resources

See also the contact information for duty officers on this page.

Washington, D.C. Police Department

Emergency: 9-1-1
Non-emergency: 202-737-4404
Anonymous reporting line 202-727-9099

Hospitals & Urgent Care

George Washington University Hospital
900 23rd Street, NW Washington, DC 20037
202-715-4000

MedStar PromptCare - Adams Morgan
1805 Columbia Road, Washington, DC 20009
855-546-1973

DC Rape Crisis Center

Immediate support hotline available at 202-333-RAPE. They also maintain a referral guide for finding service providers quickly.

Duty Officers

During all days of the conference, including pre-conference and sponsored evening activities, there will be Duty Officers available to help provide support for anyone who has been harassed, threatened, abused, or feels the CodeOfConduct4Lib has been violated during the conference.

Contacting a Duty Officer

Code4Lib 2018 is now over, but you can contact the duty officers through at least 5 March 2018 if you wish to report an incident that occurred during the conference. Please also feel free to ask questions about how the code of conduct was applied during the conference or to give us feedback. To do so, you can:

Send an email to c4l18-duty-officers@googlegroups.com. Only Duty Officers are subscribed to this mailing list, and no archive is kept.
Use the anonymous reporting form.
Use the /dutyofficers command on the Code4lib Slack team. Not a member of the Slack team? Sign up here.

On-Site Duty Officers

Galen Charlton

Shaun Ellis

Bobbi Fox

Mark Matienzo

Chad Nelson

Bethany Nowviskie

Christie Peterson

Becky Yoose

Online Duty Officers

Duty Officers are also present on various online code4lib platforms, primarily Slack. IRC and the #c4l18 conference hashtag feed have some coverage as well, but if you should observe or experience a code of conduct violation on IRC or the hashtag, please contact the duty officers via Slack, email, or the anonymous reporting form.

Karen Coyle

Slack: kcoyle

Josh Hutchinson

Slack: josh_h_uci

Katherine Kim

Slack: katkim

Jill Locascio

Slack: jkl

Becca Quon

Slack: bquon

Duty Officer Schedule