Code for America asks that all those who participate in our activities, events, and digital forums follow these community guidelines:

1. Create a safe, collaborative, and respectful environment for all participants.
2. Make this a place where people are free to fully express their identities.
3. Assume goodwill, and presume the value of others. Everyone’s ideas, skills, and contributions have value.
4. Stay curious and ask questions while also encouraging questions, don’t assume everyone has the same context.
5. Find a way for people to be productive with their skills (technical and not) and energy. Use language such as “yes/and,” rather than “no/but.”
6. Listen as much as we speak.
7. Strive to build tools that are open and free technology for public use. Prioritize activities that aim to foster public use, not private gain.
8. Prioritize access for and input from those who are traditionally excluded from the civic process.
9. Work to ensure that the community is well-represented in the planning, design, and implementation of civic tech. This includes encouraging participation from women, minorities, and traditionally marginalized groups.
10. Actively involve community groups and those with subject matter expertise in the decision-making process.
11. Ensure that the relationships and conversations between community members, local government staff, and community partners remain respectful, participatory, and productive.
12. Provide an environment where people are free from discrimination or harassment.
13. Maintain Summit as an inclusive and professional space by ensuring children, should you need to bring them, are supervised at all times, allowing all attendees to fully engage in the event.

Code for America reserves the right to ask anyone in violation of these policies not to participate in Code for America events and digital forums.