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diff --git a/guide/src/SUMMARY.md b/guide/src/SUMMARY.md
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@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
- [Cookbook](./cookbook.md)
- [Software Contributions](./sw_contribute.md)
- [Policies](./policies.md)
+ - [Code of Conduct](./code_of_conduct.md)
+ - [Privacy](./privacy_policy.md)
[Bibliography](./bibliography.md)
diff --git a/guide/src/code_of_conduct.md b/guide/src/code_of_conduct.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+
+# Fatcat Code of Conduct
+
+In this early stage of the project, this document is a work in progress. In
+particular there is no moderation team or policy for responding to concerns in
+online discussions. However, it is important to clarify norms and expectations
+as early as possible.
+
+To contact the Internet Archive privately about conduct concerns or to report
+unacceptable behavior, you can email <ethics@archive.org>.
+
+## Overview
+
+- We are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for
+ all, regardless of level of experience, gender identity and expression,
+ sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race,
+ ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, or other similar characteristic.
+
+- Please avoid using overtly sexual aliases or other nicknames that might
+ detract from a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all.
+
+- Please be kind and courteous. There’s no need to be mean or rude.
+
+- Respect that people have differences of opinion and that every design or
+ implementation choice carries a trade-off and numerous costs. There is seldom
+ a right answer.
+
+- Please keep unstructured critique to a minimum. If you have solid ideas you
+ want to experiment with, make a fork and see how it works.
+
+- This Code of Conduct applies to all online project spaces (including the
+ catalog itself, code repositories, mailing lists, chat rooms, forums, and
+ comment threads), as well as any physical spaces such as conference
+ gatherings or meetups.
+
+- All participants are expected to respect this code, irregardless of their
+ position or record of contributions to the project.
+
+## Unacceptable behavior
+
+The following types of behavior are unacceptable in the Fatcat project, both
+online and in-person, and constitute code of conduct violations.
+
+### Abusive behavior
+
+- **Harassment:** including offensive verbal comments related to gender, sexual
+ orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion,
+ as well as sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking,
+ following, harassing photography or recording, inappropriate physical
+ contact, and unwelcome sexual or romantic attention.
+
+- **Threats:** threatening someone physically or verbally. For example,
+ threatening to publicize sensitive information about someone’s personal life.
+
+### Unwelcoming behavior
+
+- **Blatant-isms:** saying things that are explicitly racist, sexist,
+ homophobic, etc. For example, arguing that some people are less intelligent
+ because of their gender, race or religion. Subtle -isms and small mistakes
+ made in conversation are not code of conduct violations. However, repeating
+ something after it has been pointed out to you that you broke a social rule,
+ or antagonizing or arguing with someone who has pointed out your subtle -ism
+ is considered unwelcoming behavior, and is not allowed in the project.
+
+- **Maliciousness towards other participants:** deliberately attempting to make
+ others feel bad, name-calling, singling out others for derision or exclusion.
+ For example, telling someone they’re not a real programmer or that they don’t
+ belong in the project.
+
+- **Being especially unpleasant:** for example, if we’ve received reports from
+ multiple Recursers or faculty of annoying, rude, or especially distracting
+ behavior.
+
+- Spamming, trolling, flaming, baiting or other attention-stealing behavior is
+ not welcome.
+
+## About This Document
+
+The Fatcat Code of Conduct is inspired by, and derived from:
+
+- [Recurse Center Code of Conduct](https://www.recurse.com/code-of-conduct)
+- [Rust Language Code of Conduct](https://www.rust-lang.org/policies/code-of-conduct)
+- [18f Code of Conduct](https://18f.gsa.gov/code-of-conduct/)
+
diff --git a/guide/src/policies.md b/guide/src/policies.md
index 3816f876..e51594b6 100644
--- a/guide/src/policies.md
+++ b/guide/src/policies.md
@@ -5,10 +5,8 @@ of contributors to the project grows. It is important to have some policies as
a starting point, but also important not to set these policies in stone until
they have been reviewed.
-## Social Norms and Conduct
-
-Contributors (editors and software developers) are expected to treat each other
-excellently, to assume good intentions, and to participate constructively.
+See also the [Code of Conduct](./code_of_conduct.html) and
+[Privacy Policy](./privacy_policy.html).
## Metadata Licensing
@@ -60,43 +58,9 @@ Attribution license.
## Software Licensing
-The Fatcat software project licensing policy is to adopt strong copyleft
+The Fatcat software project licensing policy is to adopt *strong copyleft*
licenses for server software (where the majority of software development takes
-place), and permissive licenses for client library and bot framework software,
+place), *permissive* licenses for client library and bot framework software,
and CC-0 (public grant) licensing for declarative interface specifications
(such as SQL schemas and REST API specifications).
-## Privacy Policy
-
-*It is important to note that this section is currently aspirational: the
-servers hosting early deployments of Fatcat are largely in a defaults
-configuration and have not been audited to ensure that these guidelines are
-being followed.*
-
-It is a goal for Fatcat to conduct as little surveillance of reader and editor
-behavior and activities as possible. In practical terms, this means minimizing
-the overall amount of logging and collection of identifying information. This
-is in contrast to *submitted edit content*, which is captured, preserved, and
-republished as widely as possible.
-
-The general intention is to:
-
-- not use third-party tracking (via extract browser-side requests or
- javascript)
-- collect aggregate *metrics* (overall hit numbers), but not *log* individual
- interactions ("this IP visited this page at this time")
-
-Exceptions will likely be made:
-
-- temporary caching of IP addresses may be necessary to implement rate-limiting
- and debug traffic spikes
-- exception logging, abuse detection, and other exceptional
-
-Some uncertain areas of privacy include:
-
-- should third-party authentication identities be linked to editor ids? what
- about the specific case of ORCID if used for login?
-- what about discussion and comments on edits? should conversations be included
- in full history dumps? should editors be allowed to update or remove
- comments?
-
diff --git a/guide/src/privacy_policy.md b/guide/src/privacy_policy.md
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+
+## Privacy Policy
+
+*It is important to note that this section is currently aspirational: the
+servers hosting early deployments of Fatcat are largely in a defaults
+configuration and have not been audited to ensure that these guidelines are
+being followed.*
+
+It is a goal for Fatcat to conduct as little surveillance of reader and editor
+behavior and activities as possible. In practical terms, this means minimizing
+the overall amount of logging and collection of identifying information. This
+is in contrast to *submitted edit content*, which is captured, preserved, and
+republished as widely as possible.
+
+The general intention is to:
+
+- not use third-party tracking (via extract browser-side requests or
+ javascript)
+- collect aggregate *metrics* (overall hit numbers), but not *log* individual
+ interactions ("this IP visited this page at this time")
+
+Exceptions will likely be made:
+
+- temporary caching of IP addresses may be necessary to implement rate-limiting
+ and debug traffic spikes
+- exception logging, abuse detection, and other exceptional
+
+Some uncertain areas of privacy include:
+
+- should third-party authentication identities be linked to editor ids? what
+ about the specific case of ORCID if used for login?
+- what about discussion and comments on edits? should conversations be included
+ in full history dumps? should editors be allowed to update or remove
+ comments?
+
diff --git a/guide/src/welcome.md b/guide/src/welcome.md
index c3c736da..6ddcfd8a 100644
--- a/guide/src/welcome.md
+++ b/guide/src/welcome.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-# Welcome, Welcome, Welcome!
+# Welcome!
-This guide you are reading contains:
+The guide you are reading contains:
- a **[high-level introduction](./overview.md)** to the Fatcat catalog and
software