2025-12-10 (AMER) Code of Conduct Enforcement workshop

Description

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Workshop Date

This Code of Conduct Incident Response workshop will take place on:

• Wednesday, December 10, 2025 – 09:00 AM to 01:00 PM Pacific Time, Canada and USA (PST)
• Wednesday, December 10, 2025 – 12:00 PM to 04:00 PM Peru Time (PET)
• Wednesday, December 10, 2025 – 12:00 PM to 04:00 PM Eastern Time, Canada and USA (EST)
• Wednesday, December 10, 2025 – 02:00 PM to 06:00 PM Brasília Time (BRT)
• Wednesday, 10 December, 2025 – 05:00 PM to 09:00 PM Universal Coordinated Time (UTC)
• Wednesday, 10 December, 2025 – 05:00 PM to 09:00 PM Irish Timezone (GMT)
• Wednesday, 10 December, 2025 – 05:00 PM to 09:00 PM British Timezone (GMT)
• Wednesday, 10 December, 2025 – 06:00 PM to 10:00 PM West Africa Timezone (WAT)
• Wednesday, 10 December, 2025 – 18:00 to 22:00 Central European Timezone (CET)
• Wednesday, 10 December, 2025 – 19:00 to 23:00 Eastern European Timezone (EET)
• Check what time the workshop runs in AMER timezones
• Check what time the workshop runs in EMEA timezones
• Check what time the workshop runs in APAC timezones

The workshop run time is 4 hours. There are two breaks: a 5 minute break at 1 hour and 30 minutes in, and a 15 minute break at 2 hours and 30 minutes in.

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Who Should Attend?

This workshop is designed for people who handle Code of Conduct violation reports.

This workshop is essential for:

• Organizers of online or in-person events
• Event volunteers who could receive Code of Conduct reports
• Moderators and admins of online communities
• Board members and executives who review escalated Code of Conduct reports

Anyone who receives, evaluates, or follows up on a Code of Conduct report will benefit from this workshop.

Please note that this workshop is not designed to to help people understand how to follow a Code of Conduct.

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Key Takeaways

The workshop includes:

• Practice taking a Code of Conduct violation report (an incident report)
• Practice following up with the reported person
• Discussion on bias, intent, microaggressions, personal conflicts, and false reporting
• Frameworks for evaluating how to respond to a report
• 40 minutes total of Q&A time

The workshop is designed to be a hands-on practice session, and will not cover all enforcement procedures.

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Workshop Resources

After the workshop, attendees are given access to the CC-BY-NC-SA licensed workshop materials. The materials include slides, a template form for incident responders to take a report, an event volunteer Code of Conduct guide, and a guide to creating safe(r) events.

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Workshop Policies

The pricing is for 1 attendee to participate in the workshop. If you purchase multiple tickets, Otter Tech will be in contact via email to get the names and email addresses of all attendees.

Cancellation policy: No ticket refunds.

Rescheduling Policy: If four or fewer attendees purchase tickets, Otter Tech reserves the right to cancel the workshop. Attendees will be given the option to either transfer their ticket to a later workshop, or receive a refund.

Missed workshop policy: If you register but do not attend the workshop, Otter Tech will attempt to reschedule you into a later workshop. Rescheduling will only happen once.

Terms and Conditions: All workshop attendees agree to the Otter Tech LLC Terms and Conditions.

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About Otter Tech

Otter Tech has trained incident responders for conferences like PyCon U.S., WordCamp Europe, North Bay Python, local DevOpsDays conferences (Portland, Hartford, Philadelphia and New York City), OpenStreetMap U.S., StarCon Waterloo, the BCcampus Festival of Learning, Canadian Knowledge and Research Network, and the Bertha Foundation retreat.

Otter Tech has trained incident responders for online communities like Python Software Foundation, Kubernetes, GNOME, Drupal, Data Carpentries, and Elastic Search.

Otter Tech was founded by Sage Sharp. They have 10 years experience as a program manager for Outreachy. Outreachy provides internships to anyone from any background who faces underrepresentation, systemic bias, or discrimination in the technical industry where they are living. Sage has 20+ years experience in open source / FLOSS. They are the author of the Linux kernel USB 3.0 driver and a Python developer.

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Questions?

Still have questions? Read our FAQ or contact us with your questions.

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Photo Attribution

[Photo of event organizers in green shirts is CC-BY 2.0 Open Knowledge]