Last updated: 2026-05-12

Code of Conduct

The standards every contributor and community member is expected to uphold across our repositories, channels, and events.

Our pledge

The EmbeddedOS community welcomes contributors of every background, identity, and experience level. We pledge to make participation in our project and our community a harassment-free experience for everyone.

Our standards

Examples of behaviour that contributes to a positive environment include:

  • Demonstrating empathy and kindness toward other people.
  • Being respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences.
  • Giving and gracefully accepting constructive feedback.
  • Accepting responsibility and apologising to those affected by our mistakes.
  • Focusing on what is best not just for us as individuals, but for the overall community.

Examples of unacceptable behaviour include:

  • The use of sexualised language or imagery, and sexual attention or advances of any kind.
  • Trolling, insulting or derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks.
  • Public or private harassment.
  • Publishing others' private information without their explicit permission.
  • Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting.

Scope

This Code of Conduct applies within all community spaces — repositories, issue trackers, chat channels, mailing lists, conferences, meetups, social media — and also when an individual is officially representing the community in public spaces.

Enforcement

Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behaviour may be reported to the EmbeddedOS Code of Conduct committee at conduct@embeddedos.org. All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly. The committee is obligated to respect the privacy and security of the reporter.

Enforcement guidelines

The committee will follow these escalating guidelines in determining the consequences of any action they deem in violation:

  1. Correction — private warning, with clarity around the nature of the violation and an explanation of why the behaviour was inappropriate.
  2. Warning — a public warning with consequences for continued behaviour, and a defined no-contact period with the people involved.
  3. Temporary ban — a temporary ban from any sort of interaction or public communication with the community for a specified period.
  4. Permanent ban — a permanent ban from any sort of public interaction within the community.

Attribution

This Code of Conduct is adapted from the Contributor Covenant, version 2.1, available at contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct.html.