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      <h3>Our Story</h3>
      <p>Since early 2017 the Western Slope Technologists have been working to bring together people across the western Colorado who share a professional and/or personal interest in technology. Enthusiasm around our group has grewn significantly with multiple valley's coming together fom across our region. The Western Slope Technologists are finding a natural relationship as a technical support group for local tech builders.</p>
      <p>By teaming up with local partners, like GlenX and The Ski Locker, the Wet Slope Technologists have ambitious goals to support the sustainability and growth of the local economy by ensuring that organizations have access to diverse technical knowledge and skills. To ensure future generations a place in our region the Technologists are also seeking to partner with local schools to provide kids and young adults the resources they need to learn and tackle projects that help improve their professional opportunities.</p>
      <p>To learn from others and share resources the Western Slope Technologists are working on establishing relationships across our rural communities that have similar challenges and goals. Many of which also hinge around coworking spaces and incubator style entrepeneurial support.</p>
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      <h3>We have diverse professional experience</h3>
      <p>As a group of professionals each Technologist brings a different set of skills and experience to the West Slope. Some of us work remotely and some for local companies which results in people sharing expertise learned in teams ranging from small startups to local established companies to large international companies. This collective knowledge enables a small but strong community that is capable of working on some of the most cutting edge technologies that exist today. </p>
      <p>By embrasing the Give First Mantra the West Slope Technologists are harnessing their enthusiasm and diversity to try and have a lasting impact on the community that makes them feel so at home. The Technologists believe that if they give to their community that community will grow in a more healthy way and hopefully leave the West Slope a better place for future generations.</p>
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      <h3>We have diverse technical skills</h3>
      <p>At a fundamental level the Technologists are passionate about their craft. Many have been practicing their craft long enough to be experts while others are getting opportunity to grow by learning from other Technologists. They continuously grow their skill by actively educating others and working on collaborative projects to refine the low level technical skills needed to thrive in a changing world. </p>
      <p>By collaborating on technology projects the Technologists also learn how to better work as a team. The hope is that through these partnerships real technology solutions will be developed to serve real world needs around living and working in rural communities like ours.</p>
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      <h2>Code of Conduct</h2>
      <p>This code of conduct outlines our expectations for participants
        within the <strong>West Slope Technologists</strong> community, as well as steps to reporting unacceptable behavior. We are committed to providing a welcoming and inspiring community for all and expect our code of conduct to be honored. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be banned from the community.</p>

        <p>Our open source community strives to:</p>

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          <li><strong>Be friendly and patient.</strong></li>
          <li><strong>Be welcoming</strong>: We strive to be a community that welcomes and supports people of all backgrounds and identities. This includes, but is not limited to members of any race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, colour, immigration status, social and economic class, educational level, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, size, family status, political belief, religion, and mental and physical ability.</li>
          <li><strong>Be considerate</strong>: Your work will be used by other people, and you in turn will depend on the work of others. Any decision you take will affect users and colleagues, and you should take those consequences into account when making decisions. Remember that we’re a world-wide community, so you might not be communicating in someone else’s primary language.</li>
          <li><strong>Be respectful</strong>:  Not all of us will agree all the time, but disagreement is no excuse for poor behavior and poor manners. We might all experience some frustration now and then, but we cannot allow that frustration to turn into a personal attack. It’s important to remember that a community where people feel uncomfortable or threatened is not a productive one.</li>
          <li><strong>Be careful in the words that we choose</strong>: we are a community of professionals, and we conduct ourselves professionally. Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other participants. Harassment and other exclusionary behavior aren’t acceptable.</li>
          <li><strong>Try to understand why we disagree</strong>: Disagreements, both social and technical, happen all the time. It is important that we resolve disagreements and differing views constructively. Remember that we’re different. The strength of our community comes from its diversity, people from a wide range of backgrounds. Different people have different perspectives on issues. Being unable to understand why someone holds a viewpoint doesn’t mean that they’re wrong. Don’t forget that it is human to err and blaming each other doesn’t get us anywhere. Instead, focus on helping to resolve issues and learning from mistakes.</li>
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        <h3 id="definitions">Definitions</h3>

        <p>Harassment includes, but is not limited to:</p>

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          <li>Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, race, age, regional discrimination, political or religious affiliation</li>
          <li>Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment</li>
          <li>Deliberate misgendering. This includes deadnaming or persistently using a pronoun that does not correctly reflect a person’s gender identity. You must address people by the name they give you when not addressing them by their username or handle</li>
          <li>Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, textual descriptions like “<em>hug</em>” or “<em>backrub</em>”) without consent or after a request to stop</li>
          <li>Threats of violence, both physical and psychological</li>
          <li>Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm</li>
          <li>Deliberate intimidation</li>
          <li>Stalking or following</li>
          <li>Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes</li>
          <li>Sustained disruption of discussion</li>
          <li>Unwelcome sexual attention, including gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behaviour</li>
          <li>Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others</li>
          <li>Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease</li>
          <li>Deliberate “outing” of any aspect of a person’s identity without their consent except as necessary to protect others from intentional abuse</li>
          <li>Publication of non-harassing private communication</li>
        </ul>

        <p>Our open source community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. We will not act on complaints regarding:</p>

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          <li>‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’</li>
          <li>Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as “leave me alone,” “go away,” or “I’m not discussing this with you”</li>
          <li>Refusal to explain or debate social justice concepts</li>
          <li>Communicating in a ‘tone’ you don’t find congenial</li>
          <li>Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions</li>
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        <h3 id="diversity-statement">Diversity Statement</h3>

        <p>We encourage everyone to participate and are committed to building a community for all. Although we will fail at times, we seek to treat everyone both as fairly and equally as possible. Whenever a participant has made a mistake, we expect them to take responsibility for it. If someone has been harmed or offended, it is our responsibility to listen carefully and respectfully, and do our best to right the wrong.</p>

        <p>Although this list cannot be exhaustive, we explicitly honor diversity in age, gender, gender identity or expression, culture, ethnicity, language, national origin, political beliefs, profession, race, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and technical ability. We will not tolerate discrimination based on any of the protected
        characteristics above, including participants with disabilities.</p>

        <h3 id="reporting-issues">Reporting Issues</h3>

        <p>If you experience or witness unacceptable behavior—or have any other
        concerns—please report it by contacting us via <strong>The contact page</strong>. All reports will be handled with discretion. In your report please include:</p>

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          <li>Your contact information.</li>
          <li>Names (real, nicknames, or pseudonyms) of any individuals involved. If there are additional witnesses, please
            include them as well. Your account of what occurred, and if you believe the incident is ongoing. If there is a publicly available record (e.g. a mailing list archive or a public IRC logger), please include a link.</li>
          <li>Any additional information that may be helpful.</li>
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        <p>After filing a report, a representative will contact you personally, review the incident, follow up with any additional questions, and make a decision as to how to respond. If the person who is harassing you is part of the response team, they will recuse themselves from handling your incident. If the complaint originates from a member of the response team, it will be handled by a different member of the response team. We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting victims of abuse.</p>

        <h3 id="attribution--acknowledgements">Attribution &amp; Acknowledgements</h3>

        <p>We all stand on the shoulders of giants across many open source communities.  We’d like to thank the communities and projects that established code of conducts and diversity statements as our inspiration:</p>

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          <li><a href="http://todogroup.org/opencodeofconduct/">Todo</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://www.djangoproject.com/conduct/reporting/">Django</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://www.python.org/community/diversity/">Python</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/conduct">Ubuntu</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://contributor-covenant.org/">Contributor Covenant</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://geekfeminism.org/about/code-of-conduct/">Geek Feminism</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://citizencodeofconduct.org/">Citizen Code of Conduct</a></li>
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      <h3>The path ahead is never certain but we will push on with the intent to improve the world around us.</h3>
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