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+# TARDIS Community Code of Conduct
+
+The community of participants in open source Astronomy 
+projects is made up of members from around the globe 
+with a diverse set of skills, personalities, and 
+experiences. It is through these differences that our 
+community experiences success and continued growth. 
+We expect everyone in our community to follow these 
+guidelines when interacting with others both inside 
+and outside of our community. Our goal is to keep ours 
+a positive, inclusive, successful, and growing community.
+
+As members of the community,
+
+* We pledge to treat all people with respect and provide 
+a harassment- and bullying-free environment, regardless 
+of sex, sexual orientation and/or gender identity, 
+disability, physical appearance, body size, race, 
+nationality, ethnicity, and religion. In particular, 
+sexual language and imagery, sexist, racist, or 
+otherwise exclusionary jokes are not appropriate.
+* We pledge to respect the work of others by recognizing 
+acknowledgment/citation requests of original authors. As 
+authors, we pledge to be explicit about how we want our 
+own work to be cited or acknowledged.
+* We pledge to welcome those interested in joining the 
+community, and realize that including people with a variety 
+of opinions and backgrounds will only serve to enrich our 
+community. In particular, discussions relating to pros/cons 
+of various technologies, programming languages, and so on are 
+welcome, but these should be done with respect, taking proactive 
+measure to ensure that all participants are heard and feel 
+confident that they can freely express their opinions.
+* We pledge to welcome questions and answer them respectfully, 
+paying particular attention to those new to the community. We 
+pledge to provide respectful criticisms and feedback in forums, 
+especially in discussion threads resulting from code contributions.
+* We pledge to be conscientious of the perceptions of the wider 
+community and to respond to criticism respectfully. We will strive 
+to model behaviors that encourage productive debate and disagreement, 
+both within our community and where we are criticized. We will treat 
+those outside our community with the same respect as people within 
+our community.
+* We pledge to help the entire community follow the code of conduct, 
+and to not remain silent when we see violations of the code of conduct. 
+We will take action when members of our community violate this code 
+such as contacting lead developers of the TARDIS team.
+
+
+This code of conduct applies to all community situations online and 
+offline, including mailing lists, forums, social media, conferences, 
+meetings, associated social events, and one-to-one interactions.
+
+Any related activity or project organized by members of the TARDIS 
+community, including affiliated packages, are welcome to have their 
+own codes of conduct, but agree to also abide by the present code of 
+conduct.
+
+This code of conduct has been adapted from the Astropy Code of Conduct,
+which in turn uses parts of the PSF code of conduct.