Dear CASPERites, The CASPER collaboration has, over more than a decade, created a friendly, vibrant, and successful community or astronomers and engineers. Many of us have CASPER to thank for our instruments, scientific papers, and careers.
In the interests of making sure our collaboration is welcoming to all, and after discussion at the 2018 CASPER advisory board meeting [note 1], the CASPER advisory board committed to produce a statement on diversity and a community code of conduct to be displayed on our website and in our main (mlib_devel) github repository. As such, the following page now appears at https://github.com/casper-astro/mlib_devel/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md . We have also updated the contact details of the CASPER advisory board, which are linked in this document. These are available at http://casper-dsp.org/index.php/about/casper-advisory-board/ [note 2]. The establishment of this code is not a response to any particular incident, but rather is a proactive action to make it clear that we value inclusiveness and diversity, and to recognise that like many other groups, CASPER could make improvements in these arenas. This code of conduct is a small first step in a wider discussion about how to best encourage participation in CASPER, which is vital to its continued success. We welcome any comments or suggestions (related to this code of conduct or not) which might help us improve our community. You should feel free to get in touch by engaging with the advisory board via casper-advisory-bo...@lists.berkeley.edu or the contact details at http://casper-dsp.org/index.php/about/casper-advisory-board/ . Thanks Jack (on behalf of the CASPER Advisory Board) [note 1] The summary slides from the 2018 CASPER Advisory board meeting are available at https://github.com/casper-astro/casper-meeting-minutes/blob/master/Advisory_Board/Advisory_Board_Meeting_Feedback_Slides_2018.pdf [note 2] casper-dsp.org is a placeholder domain being used to develop a new CASPER cloud-hosted website. This will replace the (increasingly unreliable) casper.berkeley.edu in the near future. See https://www.mail-archive.com/casper@lists.berkeley.edu/msg07394.html. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. To post to this group, send email to casper@lists.berkeley.edu.