Code of Conduct

• Treat people as colleagues. Assume good intent, and be direct without being unkind.
• Make room for people who are newer, quieter, or less experienced than you. Someone’s first sprint should not be their last.
• Respect the space, the venue, the equipment, and the people working there.
• Do your own work. Build during the event, credit what you did not build yourself, and be honest about what your project does.
• Follow the instructions of organizers and venue staff, especially on anything to do with safety.

• Harassment in any form. That includes sexual attention or advances that are not wanted, comments about someone’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, appearance, body, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or age, and following, filming, or photographing someone who has asked you to stop.
• Intimidation, stalking, threats, or violence, whether in person or online.
• Deliberately disrupting talks, judging, or other people’s work.
• Sharing someone’s private information without their permission.
• Cheating: submitting work you did not build, misrepresenting your project, manipulating voting or judging, or breaking the event rules to gain an advantage.
• Entering areas you have not been given access to, or ignoring venue safety rules.

A reminder that should not be needed but sometimes is: overnight events are still professional environments. The fact that people are sleeping on site does not change any of the above.

At an event: find any organizer or volunteer. They are there for this. If you would rather not speak to someone on site, use the contact below and we will handle it.

On the platform, or after an event: write to alexandros@sprintd.org. Reports go to Alexandros Riggenbach at sprintd.

Tell us what happened, when, and who was involved, as far as you are able. You do not need to have proof, and you do not need to be the person it happened to.

We will take you seriously, keep your report confidential as far as we can while still acting on it, and tell you what we did. We will not retaliate against anyone for reporting in good faith, and we will not tolerate anyone else doing so. If you are in immediate danger, contact the emergency services first (112 in Switzerland), then tell us.

We respond in proportion to what happened. Depending on the case, that can mean a conversation, a warning, removing content, removing someone from a team or an event, closing an account, or a ban from future sprintd events. Where there is a risk to someone’s safety we act immediately, and we can do so without warning.

Where the law has been broken, we will involve the authorities and cooperate with them.

For events sprintd does not organize, the organizer is responsible for applying this Code at their event, as a minimum standard. We will still act on our own platform, including closing accounts, and we will take an organizer’s handling of an incident into account in deciding whether they keep hosting on sprintd.

This Code is part of the Terms of Service. It applies on the platform, at events, in event chats and Q&A, and in event-related communication elsewhere, including social media where it concerns another participant.