The Acceptable Use Policy

Purpose

The Acceptable Use Policy is a simple set of guidelines determining behavior in eglug. The intention is not to restrict, but rather to provide the barest possible protection for members in order to provide a respectable and constructive working environment for the site. The AUP is as follows.

The Policy

The following kinds of speech will not be allowed on the eglug.org website:

1. No content violating the laws of Egypt.
2. No Hate speech against individuals or groups.
3. No personal attacks.
4. No Profanity or sexualy explicit content.
5. No off topic content.

Topic

This LUG was founded to promote the ideals of Free/Open Source Software and GNU/Linux. Members are expected to keep the topic of work and discussion in this area as much as they can. It is understood that the line between on-topic and off-topic is sometimes not too clear, and the benefit of the doubt will be given as often as possible. Only clear violations of this rule will be considered a violation of the Acceptable Use Policy.

Blogs

Blogs are a special area of the eglug.org website, their goal is to foster community and to enable social interaction between members.

The rule about off topic content is relaxed fully when it comes to blogs, blog writers can write about anything they want as long as they don't violate the rest of the rules.

When it comes to religion and philosophy, you have the right to express your believes even if it contradicts other religions as long as it doesn't insult/attack them, there's a very fine line between both.

Moderation

It is moderators duty to ensure that content published on the eglug.org website does not violate the rules stated above.

Moderators are to avoid editing members posts, they should instead unpublish the post and ask the author to edit the post till it complies with the rules.

Moderators shall not delete content from the website permenantly, posts violating the rules shall be unpublished and moved to a locked location, any member has the right to request monitoring moderation descisions and looking at moderated posts.

A public trail of the moderation descision citing the author of the violating post, the name of the moderator and the reason for moderation shall be provided, failure to do so will be considered violation of the moderators mandate.

Any moderation descision can be revoked through the consensus of 3 moderators.

IRC channel

The AUP applies to the IRC channel #eglug , according to the following relaxed rules :

1. No content violating the laws of Egypt.
2. No Hate speech against individuals or groups.
3. No personal attacks.
4. No Profanity or sexually explicit content.