How should members treat each other?
Treat other members the way you would treat a colleague you respect. Listen, give credit, and disagree about the work without making it personal.
Harassment, discrimination and intimidation are not accepted, at a meetup, in the member channel or anywhere else members meet.
What stays in the room?
What members share about customers stays in the room. Meetups and member conversations run under the Chatham House Rule by default: you may use what you learn, and you may not say who said it or where they work.
Do not share client confidential material, and do not ask another member to.
Can I recruit or sell to members?
No. There are no recruiting or sales messages to members, and no pitches from the stage. Recruiters, agency staff and sales roles cannot join as members.
The same rule binds the organisers. Member data is never used for recruitment, by the organisers or anyone else.
How may the members directory be used?
To find and write to another member, one person at a time. No scraping, no export and no bulk messages. Profile views are limited to 300 per member per hour.
What do speakers disclose?
Speakers state their employer and any commercial interest in what they present. A talk is about a real deployment and what was learned from it.
To propose one, see how to offer a talk.
Are meetups photographed?
Only with notice. When a meetup is photographed, its registration page and the door say so, and you can opt out. No photograph is published with a name without that person's consent.
The full policy is in the privacy notice.
How do I report a problem?
Write to hello@fdeclub.ch. It is the one address the club gives out, and a person reads it.
What happens after a report?
A person reads it and confirms that it arrived. It is shared only with the people who need it to act. An organiser who is named in a report takes no part in handling it. You are told the outcome.
What happens when a rule is broken?
It depends on what happened: a private word, a pause of member access, or the end of membership. A member whose access is paused or ended is told why.