Code of Conduct

We follow the CNCF Code of Conduct .

As part of our pledge to respect all people, in both live in-person and online interactions, we are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, native language, operating system choice, current software stack or prior experience.

In keeping with this commitment, we offer the following guidelines:

  • Welcome newcomers at any stage of expertise.
    • Everyone has something to contribute.
    • Everyone deserves access to materials and community that will help them learn.
    • As long as an individual can be respectful and not disruptive to other participants, they deserve to participate.
  • Provide open and free material.
  • Be kind and courteous.
    • Interpret the arguments of others in good faith, offering private constructive feedback when communication style bears improvement.
    • Leave space for quieter voices.
  • Consider who is not in the room.
    • Invite participation from experts or user community representatives outside of the working group.
    • Participate in online forums to be inclusive of those who cannot attend meetings.
  • Work performed within this group, either finalized or in draft, is to be used in accordance with the group Mission and Charter , the open source license, and to be used for the equal benefit of all members of the community. Further information on use of work may be found in Security Reviews: Outcome

Incident handling and escalation

Content for the purposes of the code of conduct as well as incident is defined not only as published or draft content but also online discourse, such as slack messages or emails, and interactions at in-person events. If an incident involving community conduct occurs, please follow the guidelines below on how to handle and report the issue:

  • If you see content that clearly does not meet the official Code of Conduct, please send an e-mail to the Co-Chair/TL mailing list ( cncf-tag-security-leads@lists.cncf.io ) and the creator of the content. (For more details refer to the CNCF Code of Conduct ). If it is regarding a co-chair, reach out to the two other chairs directly if you are uncomfortable using the mailing list.
  • If you are uncomfortable with a piece of content (but it may not necessarily violate the code of conduct), we suggest sending a private message to the content owner expressing your concerns. If this is not resolved, you may wish to request the help of a Co-Chair/TL via cncf-tag-security-leads@lists.cncf.io to help mediate the situation.
  • Discussions about these potential code of conduct violations and concerns are important, and there are great avenues to discuss them. This includes bringing up concerns to the CNCF TOC (which can be done through discussion with Security TAG leadership) or talking to Security TAG leadership about moderating a post. To help ensure that we can give focus to these issues and not tangle them up with technical discussions, we should keep these discussions separate from channels which are focused around technical exchange.

For content creators:

  • Content must strive to remain on-topic, particularly where video and images are provided. Use of emojis and gifs as responses are content in and of themselves need to be relevant to the particular post. For examples please refer to the reference section below.
  • If you receive a notice about a piece of content you’ve created, please seek to understand that in some cases you may not agree with a decision or request. Being able to practice tolerance and mindfulness is just as important to keep the community working towards a common goal. The mediation and resolution system that we have in place aims to handle this with the hope that both content creators and consumers are heard and represented. These situations are not zero sum, and often we aim to reach an agreeable compromise where a discussion of a topic can happen without making members of the community feel uncomfortable.
  • In the event where there is disagreement, we have some guidelines that can help prevent escalation
    • Do not bring the discussion out of context.
    • Do not rationalize the actions you take. We do not expect anyone to understand what everyone else feels towards certain things (e.g. the same gestures in certain cultures are good and bad in others). Understand that something may not be wrong, but it may affect others.

In summary, be nice, inclusive and welcoming. Misunderstandings, mistakes and oversights happen, and when they do, there are some good ways to go about having a conversation with colleagues to make our community inclusive and welcoming to everyone!

Reference

Example of reasonable gif: Group is close to wrapping up deliverable, as part of an update, the lead posts a “nearly done” gif.

Example of reasonable emoji: Post in the group uses emojis to break up content and is relevant to the item discussed or used in response to post to signify voting, opinion, acceptance, emotion, etc.

Example of reasonable image and video: Posting a picture of a community meetup* or posting a recording to a presentation on cloud native security.

*Note: Many events within the community may include content which is only acceptable depending on the context it is used in. An example of this is alcohol consumption. It is important that when posting photos and videos members consider if the post glorifies alcohol or alcohol is the primary subject of the content (unacceptable) or if the alcohol is happenstance occurrence in the image (acceptable).

Inspiration

The above guidelines are inspired by and borrowed from other communities: