Rules

Community Guidelines

These rules apply when participating in the Holiday Happenings Discord, Itch community, games and Twitter posts.

Make Yourself at Home...

Read this entire page and take it to heart.

If you need a safe space for you and yours, feel free to tag @admins and request one in #assistance-and-good-will on the Holiday Happenings Discord. Each space has a hosts group and a guests group. You can ask to join either. The hosts group can modify the guests group and close/open the channel to the guests group. The guests group cannot see messages prior to their current Discord session. All spaces / groups are listed in the pinned message in #safe-space.

Come and go as you please, resist letting FOMO sway you, and be kind to and take care of yourself.

...But Be Considerate...

Be mindful of the space you are in and the space you are taking. Ask for permission to enter the safe spaces of others. Ask marginalized people if you can ask, if you want to ask about their experiences or for them to make an effort to educate you.

...And Be Hospitable!

Facilitate the comfort and joy of others by asking for pronouns (and sharing yours), being upfront about your intentions, seeking consensus, giving content warnings (for example, "NSFW", "CW: Sexually Provocative", "CW: Spiders"), and using safety tools while gaming.

Resources:

• Trans Lanuage Primer. @TransLangPrimer
• Pronoun Island by Morgan Astra. @morganastra
• Culture of Safety by Cass Kay. @casskdesigns
• Safety and Calibration tools collected by Big Bad Con. @bigbadcon

Submitting for Publication in Holiday Happenings 2019

Take a look at the past editions of Holiday Happenings (formerly known as Happenings in Christmas Village). You'll find that we have sections of content which evolve and expand with each edition. You can supplement or build on this content (using our CC-BY-SA license in those issues) or submit a new holiday-themed piece.

Submissions & Rights

All submissions will be considered for inclusions in the Holiday Happenings 2019 edition. You may reuse or expand on settings, characters, moves, or other information from previous editions if your work is also under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

All submissions are subject to editorial approval and revision, in consideration of sensitivity, safety, tone, lore consistency and layout restrictions. Multiple submissions are accepted and encouraged.

If, after submitting your game material, you would like us to remove your content (or just your attribution), we will do so as far as it is reasonably possible (subject to the availability of our volunteers); please contact us through the Discord, by using our contact page, or by emailing support@holidayhappenings.info.

Miscellanea Submissions

During Holiday Happenings, you can check out the working draft for content that has already been edited to be included in Holiday Happenings 2019. Content new to this year's edition would especially benefit from your contribution!

Consider miscellanea as places, items, NPCs, encounters and other bullet-points, sidebars and text boxes added to the existing material. Even a single sentence is acceptable! Please submit your miscellanea to #submission-box on the Holiday Happenings Discord. By submitting to this channel you are doing so under the CC-BY-SA license and giving us the right to publish in the upcoming & future editions of the Holiday Happenings zine. If it's desired for publication, we will contact you to verify & accept your submission. Please be sure to provide us a way to do so if it isn't sufficient for us to message you via Discord.

Please review the Submissions & Rights section above before submitting.

Don't forget to share your content on Twitter with the hashtag #HolidayHappenings!

OnTheXDay Art Challenge & Other Art Submissions

We're especially interested in submissions that illustrate or otherwise embellish content in the Holiday Happenings working draft. These can be doodles, drawings, paintings or whatever you like. Please submit your art to #submission-box on the Holiday Happenings Discord. By submitting to this channel you are doing so under the CC-BY-SA license and giving us the right to publish in the upcoming & future editions of the Holiday Happenings zine. If it's desired for publication, we will contact you to verify & accept your submission. Please be sure to provide us a way to do so if it isn't sufficient for us to message you via Discord.

Please review the Submissions & Rights section above before submitting.

Don't forget to share your content on Twitter with the hashtag #HolidayHappenings!

Itch Game Jam Submissions

We're especially interested in submissions that are less than 1000 words. If you have an idea that needs more space (a mini game, a longer scenario, a setting, etc.), please communicate with us as early as you can, give an estimate of the length, and submit drafts often to the Itch game jam so we can get them in front of our safety & sensitivity editors. We'd be especially thrilled if you can work on your larger piece with other collaborators in the community on our Discord channel but that isn't required. Larger pieces are definitely welcome in the jam even if they won't fit in this year's zine.

If we accept your game we will edit it at no cost to you. Safety & sensitivity editing is required for publication in the Holiday Happenings zine. Please credit our safety & sensitivity editors!

Please review the Submissions & Rights section above before submitting.

Don't forget to share your content on Twitter with the hashtag #HolidayHappenings!

Itch Game Jam - Pricing

Please offer your materials as free or Pay What You Want (PWYW) for consideration. After December 25th, feel free to price as you feel is appropriate.

Itch Game Jam - Art, Illustrations & Cartography

Text-only (including plain-text) contributions are entirely welcome. Please use only art, illustrations, and cartography if you can provide us permission to reprint or reuse them. After December 25th, feel free to adjust art or layout in any way you feel is appropriate.

Itch Game Jam - Systems

We're wide open on systems we'd love to see supported. In the past, systemless content or content for small-press and independently-published games was most popular with our audience. We're especially interested in content that can be used in an unplanned one-shot.

Community Covenant

This community is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.

Applicability and Scope

This code of conduct applies to all of this community's spaces, including public channels, private channels and direct messages, both online and off. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the administrators.

Toward a Welcoming and Safe Environment

We hope to create an environment in which diverse individuals can collaborate and interact in a positive and affirming way. Examples of behavior that contributes to creating this sort of environment include:

• Using welcoming and inclusive language
• Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences
• Gracefully accepting constructive criticism
• Focusing on what is best for the overall community
• Showing empathy towards other community members

Anti-Harassment Statement

This community will not tolerate harassment of any kind. Examples of harassment include:

• Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, pregnancy status, veteran status, political affiliation, marital status, body size, age, race, national origin, ethnic origin, nationality, immigration status, language, religion or lack thereof, or other identity marker. This includes anti-Indigenous/Nativeness and anti-Blackness.
• Unwelcome comments regarding a person's lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, relationships, drugs, and employment.
• Deliberate misgendering, using inappropriate pronouns, or use of "dead" or rejected names.
• Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behavior in spaces where they're not appropriate.
• Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, textual descriptions like "hug" or "backrub") without consent or after a request to stop.
• Threats of violence.
• Incitement of violence towards any individual or group, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm.
• Deliberate intimidation.
• Stalking or following - online or in the physical world.
• Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes.
• Sustained disruption of discussion.
• Unwelcome sexual attention.
• Patterns of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others.
• Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease.
• Deliberate "outing" of any aspect of a person's identity without their consent except as necessary to protect vulnerable people from intentional abuse.
• Publication of non-harassing private communication.
• Jokes that resemble the above, such as "hipster racism", still count as harassment even if meant satirically or ironically.

If you have questions or concerns about these issues please feel free to message an admin or ask for an opportunity to explore the issue with a moderator and volunteers.

Reporting

If you are being harassed by a member of our community, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact the administrators via the Holiday Happenings Discord (you can tag @admins). If the person who is harassing you is on the admin team, they will not be involved in handling or resolving the incident.

The admin team will respond to any complaint as promptly as possible we can. If you do not get a timely response (for example, if no admins are currently online) then please put your personal safety and well-being first, and consider logging out and/or contacting the admins by email at support@holidayhappenigs.info. The administrators will follow-up with you within 24 hours. You can also anonymously submit the form on the contact page.

This code of conduct applies to our community's spaces, but if you are being harassed by a member of our community outside our spaces, we still want to know about it. We will take all good-faith reports of harassment by our members, especially the administrators, seriously. This includes harassment outside our spaces and harassment that took place at any point in time. The abuse team reserves the right to exclude people from the community based on their past behavior, including behavior outside of our spaces and behavior towards people who are not in this community.

In order to protect volunteers from abuse and burnout, we reserve the right to reject any report we believe to have been made in bad faith. Reports intended to silence legitimate criticism may be deleted without response.

Enforcement Process

Every code of conduct violation report will be treated with seriousness and care. If a member's immediate safety and security is threatened, an individual admin may take any action that they deem appropriate, up to and including temporarily banning the offender from the community. In less urgent situations, at least two admins will discuss the offense and mutually arrive at a suitable response, which will be shared with the offender privately. Whatever the resolution that they decide upon, the decision of the admins involved in a violation case will be considered final.

We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting victims of abuse. At our discretion, we may publicly name a person about whom we've received harassment complaints, or privately warn third parties about them, if we believe that doing so will increase the safety of our members or the general public. We will not name harassment victims without their affirmative consent.

Consequences

Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately. If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the administrators may take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from the community and identification of the participant as a harasser to other members. At the discretion of the admins, or by request, one or more of the parties involved may request to discuss the violation and how to avoid similar situations in the future.

Acknowledgements

This Code of Conduct is adapted from the Community Covenant (http://community-covenant.net), version 1.0, available at http://community-covenant.net/version/1/0/. The Community Covenant is an open source effort and is built on codes of conduct that came before it, including the Contributor Covenant and the LGBTQ in Tech community code of conduct.

License

Community Covenant by Coraline Ada Ehmke is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://community-covenant.net/.