{"id":1041,"date":"2015-10-16T15:20:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T15:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.baltimore.wordcamp.org\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2015-10-16T15:20:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T15:20:55","slug":"wordcamp-code-of-conduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baltimore.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wordcamp-code-of-conduct\/","title":{"rendered":"WordCamp Code of Conduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All of us on the WordCamp Baltimore team take the <a href=\"https:\/\/plan.wordcamp.org\/code-of-conduct\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordCamp code of conduct<\/a>\u00a0quite seriously. WordCamps are fun, low-cost, volunteer events that promote the use, design, and development of WordPress across regional communities across the globe. They are a positive thing!<\/p>\n<p>This year, we had an incident during our &#8220;after crawl&#8221; (the informal, post-after party group social hours). A group of attendees, sponsors, and volunteers enjoyed a nice cruise along the Baltimore Inner Harbor on an excursions known as Urban Pirates. Effectively, a mobile, pirate themed, BYOB excursion.<\/p>\n<p>Preceding this cruise, an employee of a sponsor who was volunteering joined the group, having had a bit too much to drink. His behavior become unruly and he was asked to adjust his behavior multiple times. Because the group was on a 45 minute boat ride, we could not remove him from the ship safely. The inappropriate behavior was contained as best as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Upon return, organizers and members of the WordCamp Baltimore attempted to settle the individual to avoid them causing harm to themselves or possibly others; but, despite the efforts, they ventured off on their own.<\/p>\n<p>The sponsoring company&#8217;s HR department was notified; apologies were made; everyone was safe and got home safe; and every one is okay.<\/p>\n<p>We wanted to take a moment to document the issue, note that while some things cannot be controlled, violating the code of conduct is not acceptable, and that we&#8217;ll make every effort to avoid further incidents.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to having future events and thank the 99% of individuals who operated within the code of conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks and see you next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of us on the WordCamp Baltimore team take the WordCamp code of conduct\u00a0quite seriously. WordCamps are fun, low-cost, volunteer events that promote the use, design, and development of WordPress across regional communities across the globe. They are a positive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/baltimore.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wordcamp-code-of-conduct\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">WordCamp Code of Conduct<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1989327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Ukec-gN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baltimore.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baltimore.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baltimore.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baltimore.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1989327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baltimore.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baltimore.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"https:\/\/baltimore.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baltimore.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baltimore.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baltimore.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}