2024 Code of Conduct Transparency Report

PyCascades aims to continue its legacy of being an inclusive and welcoming conference. Continuing from previous years, we have a code of conduct that applies to all of our attendees, speakers, volunteers, and staff. We also have reporting guidelines and infrastructure in place. This year, we did the following to further our efforts to uphold our community values:

• We formed a Code of Conduct committee that consisted of both in-person and online attendees to ensure that both aspects of the conference had a committee member available during the event.
• Our Code of Conduct committee consisted of members of the community, in addition to a few organizers.

Incidents

During and leading up to the conference, we had no incidents reported to the Code of Conduct committee. After the conference, we had the following reported to us. These have been summarized and anonymized.

• A speaker provided valuable feedback with resources on a few aspects of accessibility that could be improved - particularly with the platform and speaker slides. The organizing team went through the feedback and have created a new role of Accessibility Chair for PyCascades 2025 to make the conference more accessible in the future.
• After the conference, there was an informal discussion of an incident where an attendee did not uphold the Code of Conduct when conversing with a few other attendees. This incident was not reported during the conference so the Code of Conduct committee is following up with those involved to get more information.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the Django and Write the Docs community for providing us with the framework needed to establish our Code of Conduct and associated procedures. We would like to thank various members of our community and organizing body who provided constructive feedback about our conduct reporting process, allowing us to improve. Finally, we would like to thank all of our volunteers who served on the Code of Conduct committee. These volunteers have to deal with emotionally difficult situations in order to ensure that we continue to have a community that is welcoming to all.

We would also be remiss if we did not document that we received an overwhelming amount of positive feedback about our Code of Conduct, our efforts towards increased accessibility, and the visibility & amplification of women, transgender & non-binary people, people of color, and other underrepresented minorities. We are proud to be a strong example of the diversity present within the Python community.