If you have a geek community, you should take steps to make it clear that harassment is unwelcome within it and to respond to reports of harassment.
Adopting our policy[]
There is a sample policy at Community anti-harassment/Policy.
In order to adopt a policy, you need at minimum, the following:
- a policy
- a contact point where harassment reports can be received
- a group of responders who receive reports and have the power to act on them up to and including excluding harassers from your community
Other policies[]
Code of conduct evaluations lists many communities with policies, together with evaluating them on features such as enforcement mechanisms.
Adoption[]
Communities that have adopted an anti-harassment policy are listed at Community anti-harassment/Adoption.
Resources[]
Our community anti-harassment policy is new from June 2014. Please review the Conference anti-harassment pages for information about adopting and enforcing policies, much of the advice applies in both situations.