Community standards

Code of conduct

Short, and we mean all of it. Every member agrees to this at sign-up. Breaking it can mean removal from a project or from the initiative.

Everyone is here to learn

Assume the person asking a basic question is exactly who this initiative was built for.
No condescension about someone's institution, degree, French, English, or background. None.
If you know something, explain it. Gatekeeping is the problem we are trying to solve.

Be honest about the work

Report what the data actually shows, including null and inconvenient results.
Never fabricate, selectively omit, or quietly reshape an analysis to reach a conclusion.
Say when you are unsure. Uncertainty stated openly is worth more than false confidence.
If you find an error in published work — yours or someone else's — raise it. Corrections are normal science.

Credit is not negotiable after the fact

Contributions are logged as they happen, against CRediT roles, visible to the whole team.
Authorship discussions happen early and in the open, not the week before submission.
Nobody is added as an author for their title alone, and nobody is dropped for lacking one.
Data, code and text produced here are shared under the project's stated licence.

Respect people's time

If you commit to hours, keep them, or say early that you can't. Silence is the costly option.
Project leads: review applications within two weeks. Leaving people waiting is a real harm.
Meetings have notes. Decisions get written down.

Research ethics

Any project involving human subjects, health data, or identifiable information declares its ethics status before recruiting.
Never upload personal or identifiable data to a shared resource. Anonymise first, always.
Respect the licence and terms of every dataset you bring in.

Harassment

Any form of harassment, discrimination, or bullying will result in immediate removal from the initiative. We maintain a strict zero-tolerance policy.
This applies to all project discussions, workshops, meetings, and any environment where individuals are representing or acting on behalf of the initiative.

Reporting

Contact any administrator directly, or write to conduct@openresearch.tn. Reports are handled confidentially. You will never be penalised for raising one in good faith.