Community Agreements
ESTABLISHED COMMUNITY AGREEMENTS
The participants considered various community agreements before deciding on the following for how they will treat each other and the work:
- Respect each other in action and in speech.
- Stay present.
- Listen with an open mind.
- Arrive prepared and ready to engage.
- Consider your thoughts before speaking.
- Honesty in all communications.
- Contribute from your lived experience.
- Clarify to avoid assumptions.
- Plain speak as much as possible.
- Avoid acronyms and complicated verbiage.
- Ask questions out of curiosity.
- Use specific (brief) examples for clarity.
- Be open to different modes of expression (cultural/linguistic).
- Respectful disagreement is okay.