Open Repositories (OR) is dedicated to providing a welcoming and positive experience for everyone, whether they are in a formal session or a social setting, or are taking part in activities on-line. OR online, or are conference staff or hosts. OR participants come from all over the world and bring with them a wide variety of professional, personal and social backgrounds; whatever these may be, we treat colleagues with dignity and respect. We all represent the OR community.
OR participants communicate primarily in English, though for many of them us this is not their our native language. We therefore strive to express ourselves simply and clearly remembering that unnecessary use of jargon and slang will be a barrier to understanding for many of our colleagues. We We are sensitive to the fact that the international nature of OR means that we span many different social norms around language and behaviour and we strive to conduct ourselves in ways that are unlikely to cause offence.
OR gatherings are information-rich and intended to generate much discussion and debate. We We discuss ideas from a standpoint of mutual respect and reasoned argument.
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