Terms & code of conduct

Membership

Membership of DevCon14is free and open to anyone with a genuine interest in the community’s five objectives. There are no tiers, no paid content, and nothing behind a subscription. We may decline or end a membership that breaks the code of conduct below.

Events and registration

Places at events are limited and allocated in order of registration. If your plans change, release your place so someone on the waiting list can take it. Repeatedly registering and not attending may cost you priority at popular sessions — not as a punishment, but because a held seat that stays empty took it from someone who would have come.

Projects and products

Work produced in a project pod belongs to the client organisation that commissioned it, unless agreed otherwise in the one-page brief. Members keep the right to describe their contribution publicly — in a portfolio, a CV, or an interview. Products built by the community are maintained by their teams, and any revenue is reinvested into community programmes.

Your writing

Articles published here stay yours. You give us permission to publish and promote them; you can ask for a piece to be taken down at any time.

Code of conduct

Every member accepts this on joining. It is short on purpose, and we mean all of it.

Treat people with adab

Every member — any background, any level, any madhhab or none — has a seat and a voice here. Harassment, belittling, or making someone the butt of a room is not a style difference. It ends a membership.

Disagree well

State the strongest version of what the other person said before you answer it. Argue with the claim, never the person. Winning is not the objective; the team has to keep working tomorrow.

Be honest about what you know

Honest feedback, honest scope, honest about the limits of your experience. Mentors who overstate and members who overpromise both cost someone else real time.

Do not use the community as a lead list

No cold pitching members, no recruitment spam, and no funnelling people into a paid course. If you have something genuinely useful, propose a session and stand behind it in person.

Keep the room safe

What is shared in confidence — in a mentoring session, a clinic, or a project review — stays there.

Reporting something

If a member makes you uncomfortable, tell us. Write to [email protected] or use the contact form. Reports go to the community team, are treated confidentially, and are acted on — including, where it is warranted, removing someone.

Changes

We will update this page when the community’s practice changes, and note the date at the top. Material changes are announced to members rather than made quietly.