The overriding goal of AuTechHeads is to provide a strong community for Australian and regional geeks.

To this end, we provide the group and its website with a low level of moderation and restriction. The intent here is to allow collaboration and contribution, for members to get involved and participate in building this exciting group. It's for this same reason that we license your contributions under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license - we want you to feel safe and happy, and to retain ownership of your own creations at all times.

To this end, we ask that members abide by a code of conduct. This is not intended to be onerous, but represents a level of behaviour and courtesy that is consistent amongst all members. We do not want to breed an 'elitist' site where simple discussions and questions escalate beyond control, and into flame wars or worse.

The Code of Conduct is intended to be simple and transparent in nature. If you feel that any part of the code is unclear, needs clarification, or needs refinement, please get involved and suggest improvements.

1. All people considering themselves geeks (or technology professionals) are welcome, whether male, female, teenager, adult, or "senior". It is expected that members should be professionals in a technical field, or have a strong appreciation or understanding of technical matters (and especially the area of computer sciences), but if you have something meaningful to contribute and can genuinely gain value, you are welcome.
   
   
2. No one technology or discipline is favoured. It is recognised that the fields in which people may be considered geeks are many and varied, and that each individual and discipline may favour its own technologies. We can virtually guarantee you will find others with similar interests or expertise here.
   
   
3. All members deserve and will show respect to one another. Humour, friendly banter and mild disagreement is welcome, but if someone takes offence, please apologise freely and without reservation. There is absolutely no reason for things to degenerate into flame wars or worse.
   
   
4. Trolling is not permitted. However please bear in mind item 3. If someone appears to be trolling, please ask them politely to open a new thread, cease and desist, or at worst, report their post.
   
   
5. Please contribute meaningfully, positively, and constructively to the site, or the group, in the way you feel most comfortable. If you are not an active participant, that is ok - but the group will benefit most from contribution.
   
   
6. Illegal and questionable material, including illicit copying of copyrighted materials, is not permitted in any circumstances. There are other sites better suited to this purpose.
   
   
7. Bearing in mind that we do not place age restrictions on membership at this time, contributions should be kept to an appropriate level such that a minor could access it without concern.
   
   
8. Disputes and complaints under this code will be handled by site administrators and moderators as appropriate. All members deserve fair handling provided that they have adhered to the best of their ability to the code of conduct. With the exception of grossly deliberate contravention of the code, members have the right to appeal a decision. However the decisions are considered to be final unless overturned in such an appeal.