European Bioconductor Meeting 2020

Where: Virtual Conference
When: 14-18 December 2020
On twitter: #EuroBioc2020

Images and content from talks, workshops, and posters may be shared publicly through social media. Talks may be recorded by the organizers and published via the Bioconductor Youtube channel.

Code of conduct

This on-line conference adopts the Bioconductor project-wide code of conduct, and all participants agree to abide by the Code of Conduct.

Below, we summarize the main points pertaining to this event, but invite participants to familiarize themselves with the project-wide code of conduct.

The European Bioconductor conference aims to provide a supportive, collegial, and harassment-free environment

Bioconductor is built on the free and open exchange of scientific ideas, and the contributions of our diverse user community. In this spirit, we are dedicated to providing a supportive, collegial, and harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of:

gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age or religion.
intellectual position: approaches to data analysis, software preferences, coding style, scientific perspective, etc.

We do not tolerate harassment, intimidation, or bullying of conference participants in talks, workshops, poster sessions, group discussions or social activities. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference event. Conference participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the on-line conference, at the discretion of the conference organizers.

Examples of unacceptable harassment, intimidation, and bullying behavior

Harassment includes, but is not limited to:

Making comments, to an audience or personally, that belittle or demean another person
Sexual images in public spaces
Stalking or following
Harassing photography or recording
Sustained disruption of talks or other events
Unwelcome sexual attention
Advocating for, or encouraging, any of the above behaviour

Intimidation and bullying include, but are not limited to:

Aggressive or browbeating behavior directed at someone during a public presentation
Mocking or insulting another person’s intellect, work, perspective, or question/comment
Making reference to someone’s gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religion, or other personal attribute in the context of a scientific discussion
Deliberately making someone feel unwelcome

Enforcement

Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.

If a participant engages in harassing behaviour, event organisers retain the right to take any actions to keep the event a welcoming environment for all participants. This includes warning the offender or expulsion from the on-line conference.

Event organisers may take action to redress anything designed to, or with the clear impact of, disrupting the event or making the environment hostile for any participants.

Reporting

If someone makes you or anyone else feel unsafe or unwelcome, please report it as soon as possible, by reaching out to conference organizers by email (laurent.gatto@uclouvain.be or charlotte.soneson@fmi.ch), slack or the conference chat.

When taking a personal report, our staff will ensure you are safe and cannot be overheard. They may involve other event staff to ensure your report is managed properly. Once safe, we’ll ask you to tell us about what happened. This can be upsetting, but we’ll handle it as respectfully as possible, and you can bring someone to support you. You won’t be asked to confront anyone and we won’t tell anyone who you are.

Participants can also make an anonymous or non-anonymous report via the following link: https://tinyurl.com/bioccomplaint. It is a free-form text box that will be forwarded to the Code of Conduct Committee.