We are an all-volunteer community working with good will and commitment to educate ourselves, develop professionally, and have a positive and profound impact in the real world.

Members are requested to conduct themselves in a professional manner as if this were a physical workplace or conference. Profanity, personal attacks, and non-relevant distractions are not acceptable. At the same time, substantive opinions and polite yet uninhibited critiques or corrections of others' ideas or information are always welcome.

Team DALE is non-partisan and apolitical, and takes no positions on social or political issues. Political discussion should be avoided. However, there is sometimes an obscure line between politics and policy-making. So in our efforts to understand relevant policies and help others advocate for particular policies, some care should be taken to distinguish policy from politics.

And, of course, local energy is relevant to and has an impact on a wide range of social issues, such as poverty and income, food security, community and local self-determination, decentralization, fairness in public utility regulation, public goods, social costs of energy, etc. As one general guideline, our discussions should focus on the relevance and impact of local energy on social issues rather than the social issues themselves.