[robocup-worldwide] RoboCup Federation Code of Conduct

[April Foster]

Dear RoboCup Community,


Below please find the RoboCup Federation Code of Conduct, approved by the
RoboCup Board of Trustees.


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RoboCup Federation Code of Conduct

Approved April 2019

The RoboCup Federation (RCF) coordinates a variety of competitions,
conferences, workshops, educational outreach activities, and online
discussions pertaining to advancing the state of the art in AI and robotics
research.

RoboCup has a rich past record of fostering inclusion and respect for all
participants and remains dedicated to providing a respectful and inclusive
experience for everyone. Respectful behavior is always, and has always
been, assumed and expected of community members in all interactions.

Competition participants and attendees are expected to interact with others
in a respectful and courteous manner, and to abide by standard academic
practices of giving appropriate credit for other peoples' ideas.

Abusive, racist, sexist, homophobic, intimidating, harassing, or
threatening behavior towards any other event participant or directed at any
organizer, student volunteer, sponsor, event staff, or spectators, will not
be tolerated.  RoboCup disapproves of offensive actions, aggressive acts,
or comments that intimidate or disparage others.  RoboCup will not tolerate
any kind of harassment, including but not limited to:


Verbal attacks, accusations, bullying, or offensive comments

Aggressive or intimidating behavior

Sustained disruption during presentations and other events

Unwelcome sexual attention

Inappropriate physical contact

Deliberate intimidation or stalking either in person or online

Sexual and racist images or materials in public space

Ignoring, encouraging, or advocating any of the above behaviors

RoboCup also disapproves of, and will not tolerate acts of plagiarism.

All persons, organizations and entities that attend RoboCup events are
subject to the standards of conduct set forth above. RoboCup expects all
community members to formally endorse this code of conduct, and to actively
prevent and discourage any undesired behaviors. Everyone should feel
empowered to politely engage when themselves or others are disrespected,
and to raise awareness and understanding of this code of conduct. RoboCup
event participants asked to stop their unacceptable behavior are expected
to comply immediately. Sponsors are also subject to this code of conduct in
their participation in RoboCup events.

All RoboCup agents and/or representatives are empowered to take all
necessary action to prevent and/or stop any conduct that violates this code
including but not limited to demanding that the violator be removed either
temporarily or permanently from the current event and/or future events
(without refund) or calling in local law enforcement officials to assist in
the matter.

To report any behavior that violates this code of conduct, please
immediately report the conduct complained of to a RoboCup representative at
the conference or event, or contact (by email or in person) the RoboCup
president or any RoboCup trustee. The following email address may also be
used: conduct at robocup.org.  Complaints will be reviewed by a subcommittee
of the board of trustees, and may be referred to law enforcement when
warranted.



References

https://aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-19/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/AAAI-19-Code-of-Conduct.1.28.19.Final_.pdf

http://swsa.semanticweb.org/content/code-conduct-iswc

http://aaai.org/Organization/ethics.php

http://confcodeofconduct.com/

https://www.w3.org/Consortium/cepc/

https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy

https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2015-general-info/ismbeccb2015-coc

https://chi2017.acm.org/diversity-inclusion-statement.html

http://swsa.semanticweb.org/content/code-conduct-iswc

https://sites.google.com/view/aiide2017/home/code-of-conduct?authuser=0

http://www.humancomputation.com/2017/codeofconduct.html

http://www.ifaamas.org/harassment.html

https://github.com/Polymer/polymer/wiki/Code-of-Conduct

http://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2015.18790

http://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-04212-2

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

https://www.projectcallisto.org/
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