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+# 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/)
+