For anyone interested in Open Education Technology (or any two of those!)

OpenEdTech.social
(one of many Mastodon servers)

Help us with our server costs by donating here

Background

This Open EdTech community server is one of many that make up the Mastodon federated network of servers. Federation means you can use the whole network from this server, or you can access this server from any other server on the network.

This particular server is hosted as part of the Open EdTech project, which is located at OpenEdTech.global. The web site, and associated Matrix space, is heavily focussed on bringing together capable people who are interested in helping to design and build open educational technology platforms for the far future.

Getting an account here

Accounts on THIS server are now restricted to anyone who is a paid member of Open EdTech Association (see http://openedtech.global/association). Note that there are many other servers in the Mastodon network with open policies, and any account on any of them will work to use Mastodon in general

Server rules and guidelines

The following behaviours all help make OpenEdTech.social a positive and educational environment:

• Your posts should generally be about your own lived experience, rather than criticising others for what they do or who you think they are.
• Demonstrate empathy and kindness toward other people
• Be respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences
• Accept responsibility and apologise to those affected by our mistakes, and learn from the experience

Examples of unacceptable behaviour include:

• Public or private harassment
• Sexual attention or advances of any kind
• Trolling, insulting or derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
• Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or email address, without their explicit permission
• Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a social setting, including excessive advertising
• We welcome members regardless of qualities such as gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, age, race, nationality, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, family structure, spirituality, religion (or lack thereof), education, or other personal traits. We particularly celebrate diversity and do not tolerate bigotry or prejudice. Diverse opinions on politics, religion, and other matters are welcome as long as they align with our core values. For the avoidance of doubt, this is anti-racist, anti-fascist, and anti-transphobic space.

Enforcement

Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behaviour may be reported using the built-in tools of the platform. All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly, respecting the privacy and security of the reporter of any incident.

Consequences for actions deemed to be violations of this Code of Conduct:

1. Correction Community Impact: Use of inappropriate language or other behaviour deemed unprofessional or unwelcome in the community.

Consequence: Removal of contravening content. A private, written warning from community leaders, providing clarity around the nature of the violation and an explanation of why the behavior was inappropriate. A public apology may be requested.

2. Warning Community Impact: A violation through a single incident or series of actions.

Consequence: Removal of contravening content. A warning with consequences for continued behaviour. No interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, for a specified period of time. This includes avoiding interactions in other spaces, too. Violating these terms may lead to a temporary or permanent ban.

3. Temporary Ban Community Impact: A serious violation of community standards, including sustained inappropriate behaviour.

Consequence: Removal of contravening content. A temporary ban from any sort of interaction or public communication with the community for a specified period of time. No public or private interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, is allowed during this period. Violating these terms may lead to a permanent ban.

4. Permanent Ban Community Impact: Demonstrating a pattern of violation of community standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior, harassment of an individual, or aggression toward or disparagement of classes of individuals.

Consequence: Removal of contravening content. A permanent ban from any sort of public interaction within the community.

Funding

This server will be supported by donations. The ability to do this will be set up at a future date.

Blocked servers

OpenEdTech.social is a node of the Fediverse network. While users can block individual users from other servers, the following servers are blocked for all users of OpenEdTech.Social. This is due to actions which contravene our code of conduct.

• None yet

References

Thanks to the following for inspiration:

• https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct
• https://wiki.social.coop/rules-and-bylaws/Code-of-conduct.html
• https://playground.bonfire.cafe/terms/code-of-conduct/
• https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/tag/exercise-cafe/

1. Your posts should be about your own lived experiences and telling us what you do, rather than criticising others for what they do or who you think they are
2. Demonstrate empathy and kindness toward other people
3. Be respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences
4. Accept responsibility and apologise to those affected by our mistakes, and learn from the experience
5. Yes, comedy is legal (but see the other rules)

1. *.activitypub-troll.cf: limited (reason: Spammers)
2. *.misskey-forkbomb.cf: limited
3. *.repl.co: limited
4. andrew.xyz: limited
5. cunnyborea.top: limited
6. humblr.social: suspended
7. mstdn.yjsnpi.nu: suspended
8. pom***.**rk: suspended
9. porn****.com: suspended
10. sinblr.com: suspended
11. social.cutefunny.net: limited
12. threads.net: suspended (reason: We just don't trust Meta)