FAST, The Finnish Software Engineering Doctoral Research Network is committed to providing a welcoming space for all meeting attendees.
A primary goal of the FAST meetings is to promote the open exchange of ideas and the freedom of thought and expression among researchers. These require an environment that recognizes the inherent worth of every person and group; fosters dignity, understanding, and mutual respect; and embraces diversity.
For these reasons, FAST is dedicated to providing an inclusive harassment-free experience for participants at our events and in official communications channels, including social media. We want every participant to feel welcome, included, respected, and safe. There is no tolerance for unwelcome or hostile behavior or speech that intimidates, creates discomfort, or interferes with a person’s participation or opportunity for participation at our meetings and events.
Expected Behaviour
Meeting participants may get access to unpublished research plans, drafts and work in progress documents during our events. You should always get explicit permission from the authors before you can use in your own research work any unpublished content or ideas you gain in our events. Likewise, you should always get explicit permission before you share, distribute, or publish any of these contents or ideas to others outside the event. If you wish to use or expand the contents or ideas presented during an event you should contact the original authors and establish a research collaboration.
We expect all meeting participants, including doctoral researchers, doctoral supervisors and external guests, to behave professionally and to help create a safe and welcoming environment for all attendees, volunteers, sponsors, organizers, speakers, venue staff, and exhibitors in all meeting venues, including ancillary events and unofficial social gatherings:
- Exercise consideration and respect in your speech and actions;
- Be mindful of cultural differences in engagement – attendees come from all over the world and may have a different level of comfort with respect to language and personal space;
- Refrain from demeaning, discriminatory, or harassing behavior and speech;
- Discuss and critique ideas, not people;
Unacceptable Behavior includes: abusive or degrading language, sustained disruption of a talk or other activity, discrimination, deliberate intimidation, stalking, harassing photography or recording, inappropriate physical contact, sexual imagery and unwelcome sexual attention.
Harassment includes: comments, writings, or actions including jokes that discriminate or denigrate an individual on the bases of race, color, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, religion, national origin, disability, pregnancy, medical conditions, veteran status, or any other status protected by laws.
Sexual Harassment includes: unwelcome advances or propositions; inappropriate touching of an individual’s body; degrading or humiliating comments about an individual’s appearance; displaying or distributing sexually explicit images or messages.
Alert community leaders if you notice a dangerous situation, someone in distress, or violations of this policy, even if they seem inconsequential.
How to Report Unacceptable Behaviour
Anyone witnessing or subject to unacceptable behavior can contact the meeting organization by sending an email to contact@softwareengineering.fi . It is possible to use an anoymous sender for this, such as https://anonymousemail.me/
If you feel that you or someone around you is in immediate danger, please dial 112 on your phone (police, fire, ambulance).