WSSSPE4 report: purpose of the Code of Conduct section

[bangerth]

WSSSPE4 report: purpose of the Code of Conduct section

[kyleniemeyer]

@bangerth From my understanding, the specific CoC applied just to the workshop—although generalizing it to all WSSSPE community spaces would be a great idea!

One purpose of the workshop report is to describe how the workshop was organized and run, and so we wanted to include mention of the CoC (which was new to WSSSPE4) with things like the call for participation. This is done in part to document all aspects of the workshop, for members of the community, the funders who supported the workshop, and other interested parties. So, in that sense, while it is an organizational detail, I don't think it isn't relevant after the workshop.

[kyleniemeyer]

As far as the incident mentioned, I think it is ok to describe without mentioning any names: in brief, the initial mechanism for holding speakers to their allotted time was to hug them if they went over, which made some attendees uncomfortable. This was removed after the first day after someone pointed this out to the CoC committee.

[kyleniemeyer]

At this point, I'll wait for @danielskatz and/or others to chime in, but I certainly agree that the CoC adopted for WSSSPE4 should be extended to the community as a whole, and if so the section of the report could be extended slightly to reflect that.

[bangerth]

OK, thanks for the explanation @kyleniemeyer . I'll wait for @danielskatz and will be happy to rephrase the section to match that the CoC is supposed to cover the community.

[danielskatz]

@bangerth please go ahead and do this - sorry for the delay...

[danielskatz]

@bangerth Can you do this in the next couple of days?

[danielskatz]

@bangerth ping...