Welcome
Welcome and thank you for your interest in the R-Ladies Seattle Slack!
Before signing up, we would like to guide you through a few essential pieces of information regarding the access and use of this Slack.
What is R-Ladies
R-Ladies is a global organisation that aims to promote gender diversity in the R community.
We set up this Slack to facilitate communication and enable networking in a safe environment among our local R-Ladies community.
Who is this Slack for?
This Slack is for people that identify as a woman or gender minority, live in the Pacific Northwest (especially the greater Seattle area), and are interested in the R programming language.
If you are a cis-male (assigned male at birth and also identify as male) or do not live in this region, please do not sign up.
If you live in another region, please find your local R-Ladies chapter here.
What should and can you do on this Slack?
In principle, anything that contributes to a friendly and welcoming community such as:
- Ask and answer questions
- Share your achievements
- Look for and share job opportunities
- Advertise events and conferences
- Share #rstats news
- Share resources
- Bring in your ideas for the R-Ladies community
What is this Slack NOT for?
There are a few things this Slack is not meant for such as:
- Promoting commercial products (if you would like to provide a discount to R-Ladies members, please first discuss with the leadership team).
- Sharing inappropriate content. Examples are disturbing images or videos, fashions that promote negative values, health risks or bad habits, false information, offensive or mocking content.
If you are unsure whether a post is suitable, it is best check with seattle@rladies.org.
Code of Conduct
A Code of Conduct is a list of rules that support an inclusive culture and protect the members of a group.
Let’s make R-Ladies Seattle Slack a harassment-free experience for everyone. We do not tolerate harassment including:
- Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, age, race, or religion.
- Unwelcome comments regarding a person's lifestyle choices and practices.
- Deliberate intimidation.
- Unwelcome sexual attention.
- Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease.
You can review the full R-Ladies Code of Conduct in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
Code of Conduct
In addition, we ask you to:
- Not share anything that was shared on Slack outside this Slack. If you want to share any content, please ask the person involved for their consent.
- Avoid overtly sexual or offensive usernames or profile photos which might detract from a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment for all.
Reporting
If you or another member/guest/participant are being harassed by anyone in/at an R-Ladies space (virtual or in-person) or have any other concerns, please contact the Global Leadership Team via reporting@rladies.org.
If a participant engages in harassing behaviour, the Global Leadership Team may take any action they deem appropriate.
Consequences
Participants asked to stop any harassing behaviour are expected to comply immediately. If a participant engages in harassing behaviour, the Global Leadership Team may take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from all R-Ladies spaces (including meetups, Twitter, Slack, mailing lists, both online and offline) and identification of the participant as a harasser to other R-Ladies members or the general public.
Gender neutral language
We would like to encourage gender-neutral language in this Slack. Please avoid addressing people as ladies or guys. You can use expressions such as folks, y'all, everyone, everybody instead.
There are plenty of reasons to prefer being addressed in a gender-neutral way, and we would like to respect all of these.
Contact
If you have a question regarding R-Ladies Seattle, please contact seattle@rladies.org.
If you are interested in starting an R-Ladies chapter in your city (awesome!), please contact info@rladies.org.
If you would like to report harassment or violation of parts of the Code of Conduct, please contact reporting@rladies.org.