Conference anti-harassment/Adoption

These conferences have adopted a policy similar to our anti-harassment policy.

Here is The anti-harassment policy.

Implement the policy at your conference

See Conference anti-harassment for our complete set of resources.

Sponsors requiring a policy for all sponsored events

• Heroku (background info: "Why Heroku Adopted a Code of Conduct Policy and Sponsored The Ada Initiative" )
• Python Software Foundation
• Django Software Foundation
• X.Org Foundation
• O'Reilly Conferences
• Linux Foundation
• The Apache Software Foundation
• Code for America
• Drupal Code of Conduct for all Drupal Camps
• GDG for all Google Developer Groups
• JSConf for all JSConf events
• The Womens Crypto Association WCA (references GeekFeminism policy)
• Papers We Love Meetup Groups
• Mapzen

Speculative Fiction and Fandom Conventions

• Oregon Science Fiction Conventions
• San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions

Free and Open Source Software Conferences

General free and open source software conferences

• AdaCamp DC 2012 the second conference for women in open technology and culture
• OSDC2010 Code of Conduct
• FSF LibrePlanet 2011
• CodeConf 2011 (scroll down to bottom)
• FSCONS 2011 (wiki) (Live conference site)
• Open Source Bridge 2011-present
• OSCON and all O'Reilly events (not derived from this policy) (see OSCON incidents)
• OSBridge 2012
• Monitorama
• NERDSummit
• Open Tech NYC 2013
• Code Mesh London
• OpenWest (not derived from this policy)
• FOSS Fair 2014
• FOSSETCON 2014 Free and Open Source Software Expo and Technology Conference
• La Conf 2014

Python conferences

• Pycon AU 2011
• PyCodeConf 2011
• PyCon US 2012, 2013, 2014
• EuroPython 2013, 2014
• Montreal Python Workshop
• PyCon Japan 2011
• PyCon Korea
• Pycon Montreal 2015
• PyCon Philippines 2014
• PyCon Sweden 2014 (from PyCon's policy, which is in turn derived from Geek Feminism)
• PyGotham 2014 (from PyCon's policy, which is in turn derived from Geek Feminism)
• PyOhio (from PyCon's policy, which is in turn derived from Geek Feminism)
• PyTennessee along with attendee procedure and staff procedure
• Python Brasil 2014 (from PyCon's policy, which is in turn derived from Geek Feminism)
• Python Ireland (from PyCon's policy, which is in turn derived from Geek Feminism)
• Python Namibia 2015 (from PyCon's policy, which is in turn derived from Geek Feminism)
• SciPy 2014 (from PyCon's policy, which is in turn derived from Geek Feminism)
• Vancouver Python Day (derived from Pycon and DjangoCon policies)

Linux conferences

• linux.conf.au 2010 anti-harassment policy (scroll down to "Discrimination") (not derived from this policy)
• Ohio LinuxFest anti-harassment statement and Conduct Policy 2014 (not derived from this policy)
• linux.conf.au 2011
• All Linux Foundation events (LinuxCon, Linux Plumbers, Kernel Summit, etc.)
• OpenSUSE conference
• All Ubuntu Developer Summits (UDS)
• linux.conf.au 2012
• linux.conf.au 2013
• Debian Conference 2013 (not derived from this policy)
• Linux Plumbers Conference 2014 (derived from the Linux Foundation policy)
• Linux Symposium 2013 (not derived from this policy)
• SeaGL 2014 Seattle GNU/Linux Conference
• Texas LinuxFest 2014
• Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) (beginning 2015)

Drupal conferences

• Chicago DrupalCamp 2010 and 2011 (not derived from this policy)
• Sydney DrupalCamp 2010 (not derived from this policy)
• Drupal Downunder 2012
• DrupalCamp Colorado 2014
• DrupalCamp PA 2014
• DrupalCon Austin 2014 (not derived from this policy)
• DrupalCon Munich 2012 (not derived from this policy)
• DrupalCon Denver 2012
• DrupalCon Sydney 2013 (based on the DrupalCon Code of Conduct)
• DrupalCon Portland 2013 (based on the DrupalCon Code of Conduct)
• DrupalCon Prague 2013 (based on the DrupalCon Code of Conduct)
• DrupalCorn Camp 2014
• Drupaldelphia (based on the DrupalCon Code of Conduct)
• Florida DrupalCamp 2014
• GLADCamp 2014 Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp (based on the DrupalCon Code of Conduct)
• MidCamp 2014 Midwest Area Drupal Camp (based on the DrupalCon Code of Conduct)

WordPress conferences

• All WordCamps (includes a link to responding to reports)

Ruby conferences

• RailsConf 2014
• Madison+ Ruby 2014
• Steel City Ruby 2014
• NickelCityRuby 2014
• WindyCityRails 2014 See this story on how this code of conduct was created [1]
• Ruby DCamp
• Eurucamp
• Frozen Rails 2014
• GoGaRuCo - Golden Gate Ruby Conference
• GoRuCo
• LoneStarRuby 2013 (not derived from this policy)
• MountainWestRuby
• Scottish Ruby Conference
• RubyConf Taiwan 2014 (not derived from this policy)
• RubyConf Philippines 2014 (not derived from this policy)
• RubyFuza 2014 Africa's premier Ruby conference (not derived from this policy)
• Big Ruby
• Rocky Mountain Ruby
• Rails Rumble 2013
• RubyHiroba 2014 (not derived from this policy)
• RubyKaigi 2014 (not derived from this policy)
• Keep Ruby Weird

Perl conferences

• French Perl Workshop 2013
• Frozen Perl 2011
• Mojoconf 2014
• YAPC 2011
• YAPC 2012
• YAPC 2013
• YAPC 2014

Other language or project-specific free and open source software conferences

• PGCon 2011 (Postgres)
• Desktop Summit 2011
• Postgres Open 2012
• GUADEC 2012 the GNOME conference
• GUADEC 2014 the GNOME conference
• Akademy 2012
• OpenNMS User Conference Europe 2013
• X.Org Developer's Conference 2013 & later
• PNWScala
• NodeConf (scroll down to bottom)
• CakeFest: The CakePHP Conference
• PuppetConf, Puppet Camps and other Puppet Labs events
• State of the Map US (OpenStreetMap)
• d3.unconf Data Visualization Unconference
• Scala.io
• DockerCon and all other Docker Inc events
• Clojure Conj
• Lambda Jam (not derived from this policy)
• Erlang Factory events (acknowledged as derived from the Ada Initiative)
• Erlang User Conference 2014
• Lone Star PHP 2014 (derived from JSConf, which is turn derived from Geek Feminism)
• PloneConf (from PyCon's policy which is in turn derived from Geek Feminism)
• EuroClojure 2014 (not derived from this policy)
• Django Weekend Cardiff
• JSist JavaScript developers conference
• BABBQ Big Android BBQ (includes Geek Feminism as a reference)
• RuPy 2013 Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Clojure and related technologies.
• Roost JavaScript Conference
• GOPHERCON India Golang Conference
• FOSS4G Seoul 2015 (similar to the short public version of the Geek Feminism policy)

Wikimedia and Wiki Conferences

• All Wikimedia Foundation technical events
• Wikimania 2012
• Wikimania 2013
• Wikimania 2014
• Wikimedia District of Columbia the Wiki Society of Washington, DC Inc (not derived from this policy)

Software Development Conferences

• Camp Sass 2014 (derived from JSconf and the Ada Initiative/Geek Feminism)
• Code on the Beach (not derived from this policy)
• Code PaLOUsa
• codefront.io
• CodeMash
• CodeMesh 2013
• http://devmob.co.nz/code-of-conduct/ devmob 2014] multiplatform barcamp conference (not derived from this policy)
• Devsigner (derived from OpenSourceBridge policy)
• Distill 2014 (not derived from this policy)
• DroidCon 2014 Android conference (not derived from this policy)
• EmberFest The biggest ember.js event in Europe (from Conference Code of Conduct)
• FlowCon 2013 (not derived from this policy)
• Full Stack Toronto focusing on all layers of web development (from Conference Code of Conduct)
• Game Developers Conference (derived from OpenSourceBridge policy)
• Google IO (acknowledges Geek Feminism, as well as other groups)
• JSFoo 2014 (derived from PyCon's policy which is in turn derived from Geek Feminism)
• kod.io (acknowledged as derived from the Ada Initiative)
• Meta Refresh 2014 (derived from PyCon's policy which is in turn derived from Geek Feminism)
• RootConf 2014 (from PyCon's policy which is in turn derived from Geek Feminism)
• Software Carpentry
• All USENIX conferences (see section 8) (not derived from this policy but strong and specific)
• The Web Conference at Penn State (derived from DrupalCon Austin's Code of Conduct )
• SkiPHP Conference (PHP) (not derived from this policy)
• Brisbane 2014 (devops) (from PyCon's policy, which is in turn derived from Geek Feminism)
• HTML5 Developers Conference (not derived from this policy)
• Flossie 2013 (open source and women) (not derived from this policy)
• d3.unconf (software) (not derived from this policy)
• We Code Unconference (not derived from this policy)
• Berlin Buzzwords 2014 (open source) (acknowledged as derived from the Ada Initiative)
• NDC 2014 New Developers Conference
• Blend Conference 2014 Generalist conference on design, user experience and web development
• beCamp (not derived from this policy)
• Asbury Agile web development conference
• SLASHcon 2011 (not derived from this policy)
• PIPELINE Continuous Delivery Unconference
• React 2014 Building reactive systems (acknowledged as derived from the Ada Initiative)
• SRCCON a conference for developers, interactive designers, and other people who love to code in and near newsrooms. Both the Ada Inititive and Geek Feminism website influenced the policy
• HOPE Hackers On Planet Earth, one of the most creative and diverse hacker events in the world (not derived from this policy)
• SIGNAL Developer conference for Communications hosted by Twilio

Technical Conferences

• Strange Loop
• All ACM SIGPLAN conferences (see also this explanation)
• New Game 2011 Conference
• Open Video Conference 2011
• QCon San Francisco
• M3AAWG (not derived from this policy)
• GPU Technology Conference
• CascadiaIT 2013
• TechCrunch (starting October 2013)
• IndieWebCamp
• All IETF meetings and mailing lists
• NJ Programming Languages and Systems Seminar
• ALIFE 14
• cf.Objective() (starting May 2013) (not derived from this policy)
• self.conference, Detroit, MI
• Grace Hopper Celebration (starting 2014) (derived from OpenSourceBridge policy)
• EclipseCon NA (derived from RedMonk and Ada Initiative)
• !!Con (pronounced "bang bang con") (from PyCon's policy, which is in turn derived from Geek Feminism)
• MacIT code of conduct (part of Macworld | iWorld Expo) (not derived from this policy)
• RIPE Meetings
• Span conference (London software scaling conference) (acknowledged as derived from the Ada Initiative)
• NERD Summit (not derived from this policy)
• Interop NY independent technology conference and expo NYC
• The Fifth Elephant Data Analytics Conference (from PyCon's policy, which is in turn derived from Geek Feminism)
• Triangle Open Data Day (acknowledges Geek Feminism as contributors)
• That Conference Everything Mobile, Web, and Cloud
• edUi Conference Richmond, VA
• Bitcoin Job Fair Job Fair in Southern California (not derived from this policy)
• Web Summit "Where the Tech World Meets"
• TechMeetup 2014 (acknowledged as derived from the Ada Initiative)
• World IA Day a one-day annual conference held in dozens of cities across the world (not derived from this policy)
• IA Summit A community gathering of information architects, content publishers, and all who design information spaces (not derived from this policy)
• dConstruct artists, writers, hackers and coders about surveillance, connected devices, big data, and just about everything the network touches (not derived from this policy)
• Theorizing the Web is an inter- and non-disciplinary annual conference that brings together scholars, journalists, artists, activists, and commentators to ask conceptual questions about the interrelationships between the web and society (not derived from this policy)
• Interaction talks, workshops and activities exploring the past, present and future of interaction design
• UKNOF - UK Network Operators Forum

Computer Security and Hacker Conferences

• Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) X
• BruCON Policy removed as of February 2013
• DeepSec
• Chaos Communications Congress (CCC) (not derived from this policy; see incidents from 28 & 29)
• Alt-S Open IT Security Conference (in Dutch)
• CryptoParty SF (Page no longer reachable)
• OHM (Observe Hack Make)
• Black Hat
• NullCon (not derived from this policy)
• TrustyCon
• BSidesTo 2014 (not derived from this policy)

Speculative Fiction and Fandom Conventions

See: Conference anti-harassment/Adoption/SFF for the list of Speculative Fiction and Fandom (SFF) cons; including Anime, Steampunk, and Comic Cons, that have adopted policies.

Libtech, Library, and Archive Conferences

• Access Conference
• All ALA (American Library Association) conferences
• code4lib
• Digital Library Federation Forum
• Electronic Resources & Libraries (not derived from this policy)
• Evergreen events
• HydraConnect
• Information Today conferences (Computers in Libraries, Internet Librarian, etc.)
• Koha
• LDCX 2015
• LIBER 2015
• Library Instruction West
• Library Publishing Forum (not derived from this policy)
• NASIG
• Ontario Library Association
• Open Repositories
• Radical Librarians Collective (not derived from this policy)
• SLA (Special Libraries Association) (not derived from this policy)
• Society of American Archivists (SAA) (based on US OpenGLAM Friendly Space Policy, which in turn is based on the Geek Feminism Wiki sample policy)
• Startup Weekend: Library Edition

Humanities Conferences

• GLAMcamp US
• OpenGLAM US Launch (includes exemption for on-topic material such as works of art and history)
• Ada Lovelace: An Interdisciplinary Conference Celebrating her Achievements and Legacy
• Annual Digital Humanities conferences
• Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (not derived from this policy)
• AlterConf Boston Diversity in tech and gaming
• AlterConf New York City Diversity in tech and gaming

Scientific and Academic Conferences

• International Particle Accelerator Conference 2014
• Entomology 2013
• Science Online (but see harassment by a Science Online founder)
• North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (starting 2014)
• Australian Institute of Physics Congress 2014
• Sloan Sports Analytic Conference (not derived from this policy)
• Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
• Ecological Society of America (not derived from this policy)
• Artificial Life 2014
• European Conference on Artificial Life
• SIG-GRAPH (derived from ACM policy)
• International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experience (derived from ACM policy, but references geek feminism wiki as well)
• SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (derived from ACM policy)

Skeptic and Science-Related Conferences

• List of Skeptic and science related conferences with anti-harassment policies

Found on that site:

• Atheist Alliance International
• American Atheists 2014 National Convention
• Humanists of Florida
• Skepticon 7
• Women in Secularism 3 (2014)

Not found on other site:

• Humanists of Minnesota
• Florida Secular Rally 2014
• LogiCon 2014
• Minnesota Atheists
• The Winnipeg Skeptics

Hackathons

• Baltimore/Washington Space Apps Challenge (not derived from this policy)
• BattleHack London 2014 (not derived from this policy)
• Bay BitHack 2014 It's only the first American collegiate Bitcoin hackathon ever
• Bike Share Toronto (acknowledged as derived from Geek Feminism)
• Disrupt Europe 2013 uses the TechCrunch policy (acknowledged as derived from Geek Feminism)
• DubHacks 2014 collegiate hackathon in the Pacific Northwest
• GDC DevFest Karachi Hackathon 2014 (not derived from this policy)
• GNU 30th anniversary celebration and hackathon
• hackathon.io (derived from JSConf, which is in turn derived from Geek Feminism)
• Hack for Western Mass 2014
• HackBCA (not derived from this policy)
• HackTheHearst
• Major League Hacking Launch Hack MLH Launch Hack is the inaugural hackathon to kick off the first ever student hackathon season in the UK
• Monitorama 2014
• NuPic Fall 2014 Hackathon (not derived from this policy)
• One Web for All Kick-Off Hackathon sponsored by Double Union
• PennApps X (not derived from this policy)
• San Francisco UX Sprint (acknowledged as derived from Geek Feminism)
• Trans*H4ck the very first hackathon dedicated to helping the trans* community

Other Geek-related Conferences

• VentureDays Global IT event designed to bring together IT startups, venture capitalists, angel investors and mentors
• BostonFIG Boston Festival of Indie-Games (not derived from this policy)
• eyeo festival
• Secular Students Alliance Conference (not derived from this policy but very cool!)
• Quantified Self Conference
• National Association of Rocketry Annual Meet 56
• FemCamp (conference web site)
• SecondConf 2013, 2014 (from PyCon's policy, which is in turn derived from Geek Feminism)
• Pikes Peak Writers Conference
• CoinSummit for virtual currencies (not derived from this policy)
• GX3: everybody Games or GaymerX, fun and safe space for gamers and gaymers of all identities (not derived from this policy)
• Penguicon a community-run con on science fiction, open source, music, gaming, DIY, and more. (not derived from this policy)
• Summoners Con 2014 Annual League of Legends fan convention (not derived from this policy)
• Intercon O An all-LARP convention run by New England Interactive Literature in Chelmsford, MA
• NELCO The New England Larp Conference, run by New England Interactive Literature in Chelmsford, MA
• XOXO An experimental festival celebrating independently-produced art and technology
• Release Notes A conference about building businesses

Makerspaces/Hackerspaces/Community Workshops

• Seattle Attic hackerspace Seattle Attic in downtown Seattle
• BTUlab "Blow things Up!!" at Colorado.edu (not derived from this policy)
• Dames Making Games a community and workspace for game developers in Toronto
• DIYode (not derived from this policy)
• Double Union a hacker/maker space for women Double Union in San Francisco, CA
• Edinburgh Hacklab (references GeekFeminism policy)
• Flux makerspace Flux in Portland, OR
• Freeside Atlanta (references Geek Feminism policy)
• Gothenburg Hackerspace (GHS) hackerspace in Gothenburg, Germany (not derived from this policy)
• HacDC The Capital's hackerspace (references Geek Feminism policy)
• Hobart Hackerspace hackerspace in New Town, Tasmania (not derived from this policy)
• HSBNE space in Eagle Farm, QLD, Australia (not derived from this policy but refers to it)
• I3 Detroit hackerspace in Detroit, MI (not derived from this policy)
• Interlock Rochester hackerspace in Rochester, NY (not derived from this policy)
• LVL1 Louisville Hackerspace (not derived from this policy)
• MakeHackVoid (not derived from this policy)
• MakeHartford makerspace in Hartford, CT (not derived from this policy)
• Makerspace Urbana makerspace in Urbana-Champaign, (not derived from this policy)
• MetaLab makerspace in Vienna, Austria (references an article by the Ada Initiative's ValerieAurora)
• Milwaukee Makerspace in Milwaukee, WI (not derived from this policy)
• Noisebridge in San Francisco, CA
• Pumping Station:One in Chicago IL
• Radiona Makerspace makerspace in Zagreb, Croatia (not derived from this policy)
• Red Mountain Makers (from Freeside Atlanta's policy, which references Geek Feminism policy)
• SLO Makerspace makerspace in San Luis Obispo, CA (not derived from this policy)
• Stumptown Syndicate works to create resilient, radically inclusive tech and maker communities that empower positive change.
• Tinkermill: The Longmont Makerspace makerspace in Colorado (not derived from this policy)
• Triple Cities Makerspace makerspace in Johnson City, NY
• Windsor Hackforge hackerspace in Windsor, Ontario, Canada (not derived from this policy)

Also see the Feminist_and_women's_hackerspaces list.

Live-Action Roleplaying Games

• Witchwood Roleplaying
• Covenant LARP

Meetups and User Groups

• Auckland iOS Meetup Group (not derived from this policy)
• B'More on Rails Rails meetup in Baltimore, MD (not derived from this policy)
• BetaNYC Code for America's NYC Brigade: civic technology and open government
• BostonJS Boston Java Script meetup
• Chicago-sf.org speculative fiction and fantasy Meetup and Facebook group in Chicagoland area (not derived from this policy)
• Chicago Nerds Social Club (not derived from this policy)
• Chicago Ruby Meetup Group See this story on how this code of conduct was created [2]
• Chicago Women Developers
• Civic Data Alliance Louisville’s Code for America Brigade (Geek Feminism's example is the primary source for Code For America’s policy)
• Code Boss Meetup Group (acknowledges Geek Feminism as contributors)
• Code for Charlotte Charlotte Brigade for Code for America (Geek Feminism's example is primary source)
• CodeCraft Software craftsmanship meetup, with craft beer (Geek Feminism's example is primary source)
• Computer Anonymous (not derived from this policy)
• CryptoParty introduces practical cryptography to the general public
• DC Dragon Boat Club
• Exchange.js Edmonton’s JavaScript Community based on the Ada Initiative Code of Conduct
• GDG Manchester, NH Google Developer Group (acknowledges Geek Feminism as contributors)
• GDG Morgantown Google Developers Group (acknowledges Geek Feminism as contributors)
• GDG New Hampshire Google Developers Group (acknowledges Geek Feminism as contributors)
• GDG Sudbury Developers Group (acknowledges Geek Feminism as contributors)
• Glasgow PHP (not derived from this policy)
• the Houston Harry Potter Meetup Group (not derived from this policy)
• JerseyScript meetup (acknowledges Ada Initiative as source)
• JS.LA The Los Angeles Javascript meetup (not derived from this policy)
• LevelUp - IGDA Victoria game creator community in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
• London Node.js User Group (LNUD) (not derived from this policy)
• NebraskaJS meetup group on JavaScript in Nebraska
• NYTECHMEETUP Meetup in New York, New York
• Open Data Ireland/Open Knowledge Ireland
• Open Twin Cities Twin Cities Code for America
• Papers we Love, Boston Reviews academic papers in computing also in NYC, London, Boulder CO, Washington DC, San Francisco, Bangalore.
• PHPSW PHP meetups in the south west, UK (based on The Ada Initiative policy)
• PolyglotCancouver meetup group
• Portland Python User Group (from PyCon's policy, which is in turn derived from Geek Feminism)
• PubStandards Dublin
• PySprings (from PyCon's policy, which is in turn derived from Geek Feminism)
• RailsBridge Cape Town (not derived from this policy)
• RailsBridge NYC (not derived from this policy)
• Raspberry Jam Berlin (based on http://confcodeofconduct.com)
• Refactor::Chicago Meetup Group
• Ruby Hacknight Meetup (acknowledges Geek Feminism as contributors)
• SeattleJS
• SFBitCoinDevs (not derived from this policy)
• Tampa Ruby Brigade
• Taipei Language Café (not derived from this policy)
• TechMeetup Edinburgh
• Toronto Debating Society (not derived from this policy)
• Triangle Linux Users Group (not derived from this policy)
• Type Brigade meetup for type lovers at Vancouver BC, Canada derived from PyCon's policy, which is in turn derived from Geek Feminism
• up.front up.front software development
• whysecurity
• Yammer Hack Night (acknowledges Geek Feminism as contributors)

Coworking Spaces

• Bento Miso Collaborative Workspace coworking space in Toronto
• CoworkBuffalo
• Freeside Technology Spaces (workspace)
• Hacker Dojo workspace in Mountain View, CA (not derived from this policy)
• MIYB Spaces workspace in Santa Maria,CA (not derived from this policy)
• sektor5 workspace in Wien, Austria

Other Events

• TEDxCanberra
• MozCon
• GTEC (Government Technology Exhibition and Conference) in Ottawa