ETN Community Norms and Guidelines

Please take a moment to readthrough our norms and guidelines before joining the Energy Tech Nexus online community.  

The ETN Community Spirit and Community  ‘Norms’:

We believe it takes a community to build a thunderlizard. Our impact comes from paying it forward, supporting each other through successful financing highs, and cashflow challenge lows.  Building together means building social and economic resilience.  

What embodies the ‘ETN Community Spirit’?

  1. Dauntless Enthusiasm in tackling the biggest challenges in the energy transition.
  2. Authentic connection creates a resilient entrepreneurial community.
  3. Celebrating diversity as richness to welcome entrepreneurs no matter their     background nor stage in their founders’ journey.
  4. Ever-Evolving with the aspiration to learn from peers and to find guidance in     humility.

We ask that you:

  • Actively Participate - We encourage you to lean into everything we have to offer within the ETN community and reach out to members you haven’t yet met. If you’d like to get involved further you can also become an ETN Channel Guru.
  • Help Organize Events  - Events that bring the community together are a major pillar to ETN. Members gather other members all over the world, and the ETN team are here to support. Reach out to Jason (via slack, or via email at slack@energytechnexus.com) if you have any ideas.
  • Share Improvements & Feedback - If you have ideas for improving the experience of ETN members or have feedback for the ETN team, please get in touch with Jason via email (slack@energytechnexus.com). We’d love to hear from you!

Community Guidelines:

 These guidelines are for all community member sand are in place to preserve ETN’s atmosphere of belonging and respectful engagement whilst supporting member-driven initiatives. The intent is to maintain the best qualities of the community, as it continues to grow and accept more members over time.

A. Personal Conduct

We expect members to embody ETN Community Spirit when interacting with others. We are a community of builders, supporters, advocates and thought leaders. Together, we’re creating an environment that is welcoming, respectful, understanding and kind, where it’s understood that everyone is doing their part and doing their best. We ask everyone in the ecosystem (members, ETN team members alike) to embody this community spirit throughout their interactions in the community.

Please note that while constructive discourse is encouraged, we do not condone:‍

  • Disparaging, bullying,harassment or ad hominem language
  •  Threats or encouragements of violence against anyone, either seriously or humorously

B. Self-Promotion & Spam

We want you to share what you’re working on, whilst also maintaining member experience.

 Some guidance for best practices within the ETN slack community:

  • Post only to relevant Slack channels.
    • We ask that members consider whether posting in a channel other than #c-general is appropriate given the subject matter.
    • See our ETN Channel Guide for an outline of all channels
  • Please limit cross posting and limit the same message to at most 3 channels.
  • Looking to increase the reach of your work? Post in #c-share-your-work! To encourage a culture of paying it forward, consider the following guidelines:‍
    • FIND >Scroll up and find other work that interests you in this channel.
    • SUPPORT >Jump in and take a look. If they’ve asked for specific support, take a second to lean in and help out. Then, let them know via a message below their post! A little appreciation goes a really long way.‍
    • REQUEST > Only once you’ve helped someone else, please share your own work. Why not add some micro and actionable ways you’re looking for support from other members? This could be anything from specific feedback, sharing with a friend, liking on socials, to simply just asking a read
  • Make it personal: Rather than just posting a link to your work, ask for feedback or personalize the message. Has there been a ETN member that’s helped you, who you can tag? Is there expertise you’re looking to find within ETN for what you’re working on?

C. Solicitation

While eliciting support your startup or project from fellow members is encouraged (see B. Self Promotion) and we support collaboration, overt solicitation of business will not be tolerated. Our goal is to ensure that no one in the ETN community feels sold to.

 What constitutes solicitation in the ETN slack and beyond? Some examples:

  • Cold outreach promoting your business ventures, either in an impersonal way or where previous conversation hasn’t taken place.
  • Over-communication of profit-generating opportunities
  • Sending unprompted links related to your business

If in doubt, please message the ETN team so we can advise. We are always happy to help ETN members navigate this to the best of their ability.

D: Event Conduct

The ETN Community creates and runs a number of virtual and in-person events. All events are committed to providing an enjoyable experience for members while fostering authentic connections.

We do not tolerate:

  • Harassment of participants in any form, especially harassment based on gender and gender identity, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion (or lack thereof), activism (or lack thereof). Sexual language and imagery is never appropriate.
  • Damage to physical property, (a special exclusion is made for pinatas)
  • Actions which either directly contradict ETN’s community spirit, or do not represent the ETN organization. This includes disorderly conduct, confrontation, taking pictures and/or obtaining sensitive information in office environments without consent and more. 

Participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled.

We encourage members to report incidents where they feel the following guidelines have been breached.  Please email Jason Ethier at jason.ethier@energytechnexus.com if you’d like to report anything.

Moderation and Getting In Touch:

Our small ETN community team moderates thechannels and wider ETN activity daily. We will respond to misconduct with the sole intention of protecting theexperience of other ETN members.

If you see anyone violating the Community Guidelines or behaving in a way that makes you uncomfortable, please report it to slack@energytechnexus.com. Everything that you bring to us will be treated as sensitive, confidential and anonymous. The ETN team will reach out to the individual and take necessary next steps at our discretion and depending on the matter raised.

If you have any feedback on the information provided in this document, please get in touch. We support this community to support your journey in the Energy Transition. We have worked with a team of ETN members, who continue to support moderation efforts, with the aim of ensuring that our guidelines and moderation procedures are in your best interests.

Last updated: 5th May 2024.