Google Developer Group (GDG) Bellevue

♥️ This meetup group is run by 100% volunteers who support the Seattle open source community. ✨ We’re a committed team, pouring our hearts into every event, made possible by the incredible generosity of our sponsors and their in-kind donations.🎗Our meetup group exclusively welcomes in-kind donations and does not accept monetary contributions. Despite our very limited resources, we’re always striving to make each event better than the last! 🥳

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GDG Bellevue
Google Developer Group meetup is for anyone interested Google technologies including Android, Flutter, Kotlin and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Women Techmakers Seattle
Google's Women Techmakers program provides visibility, community, and resources for women in technology. Membership empowers women in their careers by providing access to curated resources and events, as well as information and tools from Google, our partners, and the global tech ecosystem.

The GDG Event Participation Terms governs this meetup.

To discuss any issues or concerns relating to the code of conduct or the behavior of anyone at a Bellevue Google Developer Group - GDG, please contact the group organizer Thomas Dao and Eloisa Elias

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• Due to restrictions at our venue, strictly no children.

🌷 Our meetup events are made possible thanks to the open source community and a group of volunteers from a diverse background doing the best they can in every event 🌟 For volunteering opportunities please fill in the details here 💟

Supporting over 9500+ software engineers and data scientists enthusiasts in the Seattle area 🌷 We provide all our meetup services free of charge thanks to generous sponsors that provide us with in kind donations in every event.

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Host an event at your company or provide some delicious food or snacks for our tech community attending our world class events 🍬 🍭🍿 Please fill out the form here 💟

🌟 We are looking for speakers! 🚀 Many of our members are doing amazing data science projects with open source tools. We want to hear what you are up to!
If you have a presentation of between 10 minutes up to 40 minutes that you would like to share with our meetup group, please submit a short proposal. You can propose a talk, workshop or lightning talk for our monthly meetups and TalkNights hosted in Seattle and Bellevue. To present a talk, fill out this form here 💟

By being a member of GDG Bellevue and/or attending our events, you are agreeing to abide by GDG Bellevue code of conduct.

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GDG Bellevue Code of Conduct - Community Guidelines and Anti-Harassment Policy for In-Person and Virtual Events

GDG Bellevue is dedicated to providing a harassment-free and inclusive event experience for everyone regardless of gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disabilities, neurodiversity, physical appearance, body size, ethnicity, nationality, race, age, religion, or other protected category. We do not tolerate harassment of event participants in any form. GDG Bellevuetakes violations of our policy seriously and will respond appropriately.

All participants of GDG Bellevue events, including in-person and online attendees, event staff, speakers, and Googlers, must abide by the following policy:
Be respectful to each other. Treat everyone with respect. Participate while acknowledging that everyone deserves to be here — and each of us has the right to enjoy our experience without fear of harassment, discrimination, or condescension, whether blatant or via micro-aggressions. All forms of communication should not demean others. Consider what you are saying and how it would feel if it were said to you or about you.

Speak up if you see or hear something. Harassment is not tolerated, and you are empowered to politely engage when you or others are disrespected. The person making you feel uncomfortable may not be aware of what they are doing, and politely bringing their behavior to their attention is encouraged.

We have a ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY for in-person or online harassment of any kind, including but not limited to:

• Stalking/following
• Deliberate intimidation
• Harassing photography or recording
• Sustained disruption of talks or other events
• Offensive verbal language
• Verbal language that reinforces social structures of domination
• Sexual imagery and language in public spaces
• Inappropriate physical contact
• Unwelcome sexual or physical attention
• Physical or cyber threats

In relation to, but not limited to:

• Neurodiversity
• Race
• Color
• National origin
• Gender identity
• Gender expression
• Sexual orientation
• Age
• Body size
• Disabilities
• Appearance
• Religion
• Pregnancy
• Military status
• Social demographic

Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately. Our zero tolerance policy means that we will look into and review every allegation of violation of our Event Community Guidelines and Anti-Harassment Policy and respond appropriately. To report any behavior that makes you or others feel uncomfortable, visit your event's website to file a report to your event's organizers.
This policy extends to talks, forums, workshops, codelabs, social media, all attendees, partners, sponsors, volunteers, staff, etc. You catch our drift. Google reserves the right to refuse admittance to, or remove any person from, any Google hosted event (including future Google events) at any time in its sole discretion. This includes, but is not limited to, attendees behaving in a disorderly manner or failing to comply with this policy, and the terms and conditions herein. If a participant engages in harassing or uncomfortable behavior, the conference organizers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning or expelling the offender from the conference/event with no refund or blocking the offender’s account from participating online.

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Event Code of Conduct & Anti-Harrassment Policy

GDG Bellevue / Community Group is dedicated to providing a harassment-free and inclusive event experience for everyone regardless of gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disabilities, neurodiversity, physical appearance, body size, ethnicity, nationality, race, age, religion, or other protected category. We do not tolerate harassment of event participants in any form. GDG Bellevue / Community Group takes violations of our policy seriously and will respond appropriately.
All participants of GDG Bellevue / Community Group events must abide by the following policy:

1. Be excellent to each other. We want the event to be an excellent experience for everyone regardless of gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disabilities, neurodiversity, physical appearance, body size, ethnicity, nationality, race, age, religion, or other protected category. Treat everyone with respect. Participate while acknowledging that everyone deserves to be here -- and each of us has the right to enjoy our experience without fear of harassment, discrimination, or condescension, whether blatant or via micro-aggressions. Jokes shouldn’t demean others. Consider what you are saying and how it would feel if it were said to or about you.
2. Speak up if you see or hear something. Harassment is not tolerated, and you are empowered to politely engage when you or others are disrespected. The person making you feel uncomfortable may not be aware of what they are doing, and politely bringing their behavior to their attention is encouraged. If a participant engages in harassing or uncomfortable behavior, the event organizers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning or expelling the offender from the event with no refund. If you are being harassed or feel uncomfortable, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact a member of the event staff immediately.
3. Harassment is not tolerated. Harassment includes, but is not limited to: verbal language that reinforces social structures of domination related to gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disabilities, neurodiversity, physical appearance, body size, ethnicity, nationality, race, age, religion, or other protected category; sexual imagery in public spaces; deliberate intimidation; stalking; following; harassing photography or recording; sustained disruption of talks or other events; offensive verbal language; inappropriate physical contact; and unwelcome sexual attention. Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.
4. Practice saying "Yes and" to each other. It’s a theatre improv technique to build on each other’s ideas. We all benefit when we create together.

This policy extends to talks, forums, workshops, codelabs, social media, parties, hallway conversations, all attendees, partners, sponsors, volunteers, event staff, etc. You catch our drift. GDG Bellevue / Community Group reserves the right to refuse admittance to, or remove any person from, any GDG Bellevue / Community Group hosted event (including future GDG Bellevue / Community Group events) at any time in its sole discretion. This includes, but is not limited to, attendees behaving in a disorderly manner or failing to comply with this policy, and the terms and conditions herein. If a participant engages in harassing or uncomfortable behavior, the event organizers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning or expelling the offender from the event with no refund.

Our event staff can usually be identified by special badges/attire. Our zero tolerance policy means that we will look into and review every allegation of violation of our Event Community Guidelines and Anti-Harassment Policy and respond appropriately. Please note, while we take all concerns raised seriously, we will use our discretion as to determining when and how to follow up on reported incidents, and may decline to take any further action and/or may direct the participant to other resources for resolution.

Event staff will be happy to help participants contact hotel/venue security or local law enforcement, provide escorts, or otherwise assist those experiencing discomfort or harassment to feel safe for the duration of the event. We value your attendance.
Exhibiting partners, sponsors or vendor booths, or similar activities are also subject to this policy. In particular, exhibitors should not use sexualized images, activities, or other material. Booth staff (including volunteers) should not use sexualized clothing/uniforms/costumes, or otherwise create a sexualized environment. Participants and exhibiting partners or sponsors disobeying this policy will be notified and are expected to stop any offending behavior immediately.

Why this policy is important

Harassment at events and in online communities is unfortunately common. Creating an official policy aims to improve this by making it clear that harassment of anyone for any reason is not acceptable within our events and communities. This policy may prevent harassment by clearly defining expectations for behavior, aims to provide reassurance, and encourages people who have had bad experiences at other events to participate in this one.

License and attribution

This policy is licensed under the Creative Commons Zero license.
This policy is based on and influenced by several other community policies including: Ohio LinuxFest Anti-Harassment policy, Con Anti-Harassment Project, Geek Feminism Wiki (created by the Ada Initiative), ConfCodeofConduct.com, JSconf, Rust, Diversity in Python, and Write/Speak/Code.