CODE OF CONDUCT
The organisers are committed to making this conference productive and enjoyable for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, nationality or religion. We will not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.
Please follow these guidelines:
- Behave professionally. Harassment and sexist, racist, or exclusionary comments or jokes are not appropriate. Harassment includes sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, sexual attention or innuendo, deliberate intimidation, stalking, and photography or recording of an individual without consent. It also includes offensive comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race or religion.
- All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of many different backgrounds. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate.
- Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other attendees.
- Participants asked to stop any inappropriate behaviour are expected to comply immediately. Attendees violating these rules may be asked to leave the event at the sole discretion of the organizers without a refund of any charge.
- Any participant who wishes to report a violation of this policy is asked to speak, in confidence, to the ethic’s committee member who will be wearing a badge, leave a request to be contacted at the registration desk, leave a comment in the specifically labelled box situated close to the registration desk. Your input will be handled confidentially. If you wish to be anonymous, you can through the box
- While we encourage the use of social media before, during, and after the Conference as a means to share information and network with others who are attending the meeting, we remind you to adhere to ICC social media guidelines, including the following:
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- Blog or tweet about what you are hearing and learning, but refrain from sharing when the speaker explicitly requests you do so. Talks are tweetable and shareable by default, but speakers can ask that specific details or slides are not shared.
- Converse and network with other attendees before, during, and after the conference.
- Provide feedback to ICC staff and the Program Committee – we encourage attendees to post/discuss topics of interest and ideas for future meetings.
- Communicate with respect and consideration for others, and keep criticism constructive.
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- The use of photographic, video, or other type of recording devices is strictly prohibited in all oral sessions (i.e., platform, plenary, invited, etc.) and poster sessions. Therefore, it is also strictly prohibited to post photos/images or video recordings from these sessions on any type of online site, including social media platforms, blogs, personal Web pages, etc.
- Capture, transmit, or re-distribute data presented at ICC – this may preclude subsequent publication of the data in a scientific journal. Please be respectful of journal embargo policies and do not jeopardize the work of your colleagues!
- Engage in rudeness, slander, or personal attacks.
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Acknowledgement This code of Inspired mostly by and adapted from « Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function (2020 Ed.)» (accesses at www.lorneporteins.org/policies-and-statistics), because, in our survey of several conference’s surveys it appeared complete and aligned with our values, namely explicit existence of diversity and inclusion committee, transparency and statistics, gender equality attention, …. The Lorne conference code of conduct, and therefore this one is ultimately inspired by the “London code of conduct”
“London code of conduct” This code of conduct is based on the “London Code of Conduct“, as originally designed for the conference “Accurate Astrophysics. Correct Cosmology”, held in London in July 2015. The London Code of Conduct was adapted with permission by Andrew Pontzen and Hiranya Peiris from a document by Software Carpentry. It is released under a CC-Zero licence for reuse.