The NZNOG Slack is being trialled as an accessory to the mailing list, for real-time conversations between network operators. It is expected that participants in this community are network operators, operating or working with operators, in New Zealand. Additionally, non-operators who attend the NZNOG conference may be granted access for participation during the conference.
This slack does not seek to replace the NZNOG mailing list, which should still be used for announcments and other requests. This slack hopes to provide a way to foster real-time conversation, for example debugging issues either in public or in private messages.
The current admins are the NZNOG trustees:
- Barry Murphy - @icepicknz
- Dave Mill - @davem
- Gerard Creamer - @gerard
- Nathan Ward - @nward
- Richard Nelson - @richardn
We want this to be a fun, pleasant, and harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form. Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.
Please don't talk about the NZNOG Slack in public. This is an invitation-only slack. Please don't discuss its contents or members in public, or with people who aren't members. Invitations may be nominated, by typing /nominate <emailaddress> <reason>, and will be approved or rejected by an admin. To avoid disappointment, please only nominate people who are network operators related to NZ, or related to the NZNOG conference, and please include a good "reason" - i.e. information about who the person is, and why you are nominating them.
Please keep what's said in the NZNOG Slack confidential. Don't repeat or quote things said here without the affirmative consent of the speaker(s). When quoting (with consent), please be careful not mention the NZNOG Slack. Rather, you can refer to the quote as something that was said "in chat" or while you were talking to the quoted member. Even if something doesn't seem confidential, only the poster of the content can give consent for it to be shared. Of course, feel free to ask!
Please be mindful that things you say here may at some point become public. While we expect members to honor the confidentiality of this space, we cannot guarantee that they will do so -- nor can we guarantee that every member's login credentials and logged-in devices are secure. Please exercise caution and refrain from sharing sensitive information that could harm you or others if it became public.
Please do not post passwords/secrets here. Operators naturally need to share secret data, such as BGP passwords. Please consider this slack to be less secure than email, and do not share secrets here.
Please be mindful that things you say here may at some point become public. We cannot prevent people from screencapping or otherwise logging this slack. We also can't guarantee that every member's login credentials and logged-in devices are secure. Files uploaded here can be downloaded by anyone with a login. Please exercise caution and refrain from sharing sensitive information that could harm you or others if it became public.
Because this is a free slack account, we have restricted scrollback, but Slack--the company--retains complete logs of all channels and direct messages back to the creation of the NZNOG Slack. Slack is a U.S. company and therefore subject to subpoenas from U.S. courts. Our logs may be subject to subpoena and could become public as part of legal proceedings.
Harassment includes:
- Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion
- Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment.
- Deliberate misgendering or use of ‘dead’ or rejected names
- Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behavior in spaces where they’re not appropriate
- Simulated physical contact (e.g. textual descriptions like "hug" or "backrub") without consent or after a request to stop.
- Threats of violence
- Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm
- Deliberate intimidation
- Sustained disruption of discussion
- Unwelcome sexual attention
- Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease
- Publication of non-harassing private communication
If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact the admins. They'll respond as promptly as they can.
We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting victims of abuse. At our discretion, we may publicly name a person about whom we’ve received harassment complaints, or privately warn third parties about them. We will not name harassment victims without their affirmative consent.
Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.
If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the admins may take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from this slack and identifying the participant publicly as someone about whom we've received complaints.
This code of conduct is based on Annalee Flower Horne's Sample Slack Code of Conduct, which is in turn based on Geek Feminism's Community Anti-Harassment Policy. We have adapted the Sample Slack Code of Conduct for our own use under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.