Online Amateur Radio Community Wiki

We aim to be a busy, productive, happy, innovative and agile community that can learn and innovate together. We welcome new ideas across the broad spectrum of the field of communications. We should always endeavour to foster good relationships and collaboration between groups with very different needs, interests and skills. The Code of Conduct shapes how we behave in public and in private whenever we will be judged by our actions whilst acting as a member of the OARC group. We expect it to be honoured by everyone who joins the community.

We must strive to:

• Be considerate. We appreciate the diverse gathering of people within the OARC and make allowance for the potential for misunderstanding due to the nature of the online text-based chat system that Discord uses.

• Be respectful. There is no excuse for poor manners, aggression and personal attacks are never acceptable. A community where people feel uncomfortable or threatened is not a productive one.

• Be responsible. When we make mistakes we take responsibility for them, de-escalating any situation when someone perceives to have been harmed or offended is important to us all. Swearing and the use of poor language will only make things worse and will be a short path to removal.

• Ask for help. The collective knowledge within this community should enable everyone to receive help, be that technical, procedural or scientific. Just ask.

• Step down considerately. If your time within a project, or within the community reduces or ends, please do so in a way that minimises disruption to the community. Announce your planned withdrawal and take the proper steps to ensure that others can pick up where they left off.

• Empowerment. We ensure that all community members feel empowered to lead, to take action, and to experiment when they feel that innovation could improve the OARC. Leadership can be exercised by anyone simply by taking action, there is no need to wait for recognition when the opportunity to lead presents itself.

Benevolent Dictatorship The online nature of the community means that there is administrative ownership of areas such as the Discord server and the website, and whilst the staff does have ultimate power over those amenities, this community is expected to regulate itself through this Code of Conduct. Contact with the staff will be determined through the reorganisation process currently underway.

This Code is not exhaustive or complete, but it serves to distil our common understanding of a collaborative, shared environment and goals. We expect it to be followed in spirit as much as to the letter.