Community Code of Conduct

Graphify's broader Code of Conduct explains our values and principles. This Community Code of Conduct sets the practical standards for participating in Graphify-managed community spaces.

It applies to Discord, GitHub repositories and discussions, community areas of this website, official project chats and calls, Graphify-hosted Events, and other spaces where this Code is expressly adopted.

It covers community members, contributors, maintainers, attendees, speakers, sponsors, volunteers, organizers, moderators, partners, and Graphify staff.

Related pages: Code of Conduct, Event Terms & Conditions, Graphify Challenge Rules.

Expected behavior

• Treat people with respect and patience, especially people who are new.
• Keep communication appropriate for a professional community.
• Disagree about ideas and work without attacking the person.
• Give constructive feedback in good faith.
• Respect personal boundaries, privacy, consent, and reasonable requests to stop.
• Credit other people's work and contributions.
• Follow reasonable instructions from moderators, Event organizers, venue staff, and platform administrators.
• Ask before using another person's machine, account, repository, private workspace, or screen.
• Take responsibility for what you post, including AI-assisted content.
• Do not present a personal opinion or generated response as an official Graphify statement unless it is one.

Not allowed

• Harassment, threats, intimidation, stalking, slurs, hate speech, or discrimination.
• Sexualized language or imagery, inappropriate physical contact, or unwanted sexual or physical attention.
• Insults, personal attacks, deliberate humiliation, or sustained hostile behavior.
• Publishing or exposing another person's private information, credentials, private repository content, or confidential material without permission.
• Recording or sharing another person's private conversation, workspace, machine, or screen without permission.
• Sustained disruption of a talk, call, chat, repository, Event, project, or another team's work.
• Attempts to interfere with Graphify systems, community platforms, or another participant's accounts or devices.
• Unsolicited or repeated recruiting, sales, fundraising, or promotional messages, particularly in private messages or after someone asks for them to stop.
• Impersonating another person, falsely claiming to represent Graphify, or evading a moderation decision through another account.
• Retaliation against someone for making or helping with a good-faith report.
• Other conduct that would reasonably be inappropriate in a professional community.

If you are asked to stop behavior that violates this Code, stop immediately.

Good-faith disagreement, criticism, technical debate, and discussion of difficult subjects are not violations by themselves. They must still remain respectful, relevant, and focused on the work.

Online and at Events

The same standards apply in Discord, GitHub, video calls, project chats, Event platforms, Event venues, official social activities, and other spaces reasonably connected with a Graphify project or Event.

Official Event registration, admission, safety, photography, recording, cancellation, and refund practices are governed by the Event Terms & Conditions.

Participants taking photographs or recordings must follow Event and venue notices, respect no-recording rules, and respect reasonable requests from other participants.

Do not use photographs or recordings to harass someone, expose private information, or misrepresent what happened.

When an Event includes a hackathon, build challenge, track, competition, submission, or prize, the Graphify Challenge Rules also apply.

Reporting

Report a concern by emailing founders@graphify.com, or by telling a Graphify team member, moderator, or Event organizer.

A report may concern something that happened to you or something you witnessed.

Where possible, include:

• what happened
• when and where it happened
• relevant messages, links, or screenshots
• the names of any witnesses
• any immediate safety concern

Only share information you are comfortable providing.

Graphify will review reports as promptly and fairly as reasonably possible. Information will be limited to the people who need it to review the report and respond appropriately.

Graphify will protect the privacy of reporters, witnesses, and affected participants as far as reasonably possible. Complete confidentiality cannot be guaranteed where disclosure is reasonably necessary to address a safety risk, investigate fairly, or comply with the law.

Graphify will not retaliate against anyone who makes or helps with a good-faith report.

If the concern involves someone who normally receives reports, contact another Graphify founder, team member, moderator, or Event organizer and ask for the report to be escalated.

For an immediate safety risk, contact venue security or local emergency services. A Graphify team member or Event organizer may help someone contact the appropriate service.

Enforcement

Graphify will consider the nature, severity, context, impact, and pattern of the conduct when deciding how to respond.

Possible actions include:

• Removing or editing content
• Asking someone to stop
• Giving a private or formal warning
• Restricting contact with another participant
• Limiting access to a channel, repository, platform, or activity
• Temporarily suspending participation
• Permanently removing someone from Graphify community spaces
• Removing someone from an Event
• Refusing admission to a future Graphify Event
• Withdrawing moderator, organizer, speaker, sponsor, or community privileges
• Contacting a platform operator, venue, security team, or appropriate authority where reasonably necessary

Graphify does not have to apply these actions in order. Serious conduct may result in immediate removal or a permanent ban.

For an independently organized Event, the organizer may separately take action under its own policies. Graphify may still restrict access to Graphify spaces, activities, roles, support, or future Events.

Updates

Graphify may update this Code as the community and its spaces evolve.

The current version will be published on this page with an updated "Last updated" date.