Add Code of Conduct

Because, sadly some people need to have to laid
out for them what is appropriate in a professional
setting. If only, we lived in the world that Bill
and Ted created and we could all just be excellent
to one another.

CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

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+# Code of Conduct
+
+## Our Pledge
+
+In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as
+contributors and maintainers pledge to making participation in our project and
+our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body
+size, disability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, level of experience,
+nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and
+orientation.
+
+## Our Standards
+
+Examples of behavior that contributes to creating a positive environment
+include:
+
+* Using welcoming and inclusive language
+* Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences
+* Gracefully accepting constructive criticism
+* Focusing on what is best for the community
+* Showing empathy towards other community members
+
+Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:
+
+* The use of sexualized language or imagery and unwelcome sexual attention or
+advances
+* Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
+* Public or private harassment
+* Publishing others' private information, such as a physical or electronic
+  address, without explicit permission
+* Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a
+  professional setting
+
+## Our Responsibilities
+
+Project maintainers are responsible for clarifying the standards of acceptable
+behavior and are expected to take appropriate and fair corrective action in
+response to any instances of unacceptable behavior.
+
+Project maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or
+reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions
+that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, or to ban temporarily or
+permanently any contributor for other behaviors that they deem inappropriate,
+threatening, offensive, or harmful.
+
+## Scope
+
+This Code of Conduct applies both within project spaces and in public spaces
+when an individual is representing the project or its community. Examples of
+representing a project or community include using an official project e-mail
+address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed
+representative at an online or offline event. Representation of a project may be
+further defined and clarified by project maintainers.
+
+## Enforcement
+
+Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be
+reported by contacting the project team at [email protected]. All
+complaints will be reviewed and investigated and will result in a response that
+is deemed necessary and appropriate to the circumstances. The project team is
+obligated to maintain confidentiality with regard to the reporter of an incident.
+Further details of specific enforcement policies may be posted separately.
+
+Project maintainers who do not follow or enforce the Code of Conduct in good
+faith may face temporary or permanent repercussions as determined by other
+members of the project's leadership.
+
+## Attribution
+
+This Code of Conduct is adapted from the [Contributor Covenant][homepage], version 1.4,
+available at [http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4][version]
+
+[homepage]: http://contributor-covenant.org
+[version]: http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/
+
+# Social Rules
+
+In addition to having a code of conduct as an anti-harassment policy, we have a 
+small set of [social rules](https://www.recurse.com/manual#sub-sec-social-rules) 
+we follow. We (the project maintainers) lifted these rules from the 
+[Recurse Center](https://www.recurse.com). We've seen these rules in effect
+in other environments. We'd like Pony community to share a similar positive
+environment. These rules are intended to be lightweight, and to make more
+explicit certain social norms that  are normally implicit. Most of our social
+rules really boil down to “don't be a  jerk“ or “don't be annoying.” Of course,
+almost nobody sets out to be a jerk or annoying, so telling people not to be
+jerks isn't a very productive strategy.
+
+Unlike the anti-harassment policy, violation of the social rules will not result 
+in expulsion from the Pony community or a strong warning from project
+maintainers. Rather, they are designed to provide some lightweight social 
+structure for community members to use when interacting with each other.
+
+## No feigning surprise. 
+
+The first rule means you shouldn't act surprised when people say they don't know 
+something. This applies to both technical things ("What?! I can't believe you 
+don't know what the stack is!") and non-technical things ("You don't know who 
+RMS is?!"). Feigning surprise has absolutely no social or educational benefit: 
+When people feign surprise, it's usually to make them feel better about 
+themselves and others feel worse. And even when that's not the intention, it's 
+almost always the effect.
+
+## No well-actually's
+
+A well-actually happens when someone says something that's almost - but not 
+entirely - correct, and you say, "well, actually…" and then give a minor 
+correction. This is especially annoying when the correction has no bearing on 
+the actual conversation. This doesn't mean we aren't about truth-seeking or 
+that we don't care about being precise. Almost all well-actually's in our 
+experience are about grandstanding, not truth-seeking.
+
+## No subtle -isms
+
+Our last social rule bans subtle racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and 
+other kinds of bias. This one is different from the rest, because it covers a 
+class of behaviors instead of one very specific pattern.
+
+Subtle -isms are small things that make others feel uncomfortable, things that 
+we all sometimes do by mistake. For example, saying "It's so easy my 
+grandmother could do it" is a subtle -ism. Like the other three social rules, 
+this one is often accidentally broken. Like the other three, it's not a big deal 
+to mess up – you just apologize and move on.
+
+If you see a subtle -ism in the Pony community , you can point it out to the
+relevant person, either publicly or privately, or you can ask one of the project
+maintainers to say something. After this, we ask that all further discussion 
+move off of public channels. If you are a third party, and you don't see what 
+could be biased about the comment that was made, feel free to talk to the 
+project maintainers. Please don't say, "Comment X wasn't homophobic!" Similarly,
+please don't pile on to someone who made a mistake. The "subtle" in 
+"subtle -isms" means that it's probably not obvious to everyone right away what 
+was wrong with the comment.
+
+If you have any questions about any part of the code of conduct or social rules, 
+please feel free to reach out to any of the project maintainers.
+