Moray Allan dijo [Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 10:45:15PM +0000]: > (...) > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Herman Robak <[email protected]> wrote: > > 1) I suggest that the scope and meaning of "harrassment" can be > > kept simple and limited, and fairly neutral. > > I don't think that making a long list of things-not-to-harrass-about, > given as an option in square brackets in the proposed text, is > helpful. At best it will be incomplete, and it increases the chance > of "legalistic" objections to any intervention while having the > potential to cause offence to someone by what we've left out. > > > 2) Social rules are not quite like the rules of Debian packaging > > policy manual. They are highly context sensitive, and have to > > refer a lot to concepts of decency and common sense. > > Which are of course themselves concepts that are rather > culture-dependent. Of course, people should stop their behaviour once > others declare that they feel its harrassment, even if it wasn't > intended that way, and at that point any difference in cultural > assumptions becomes irrelevant.
there is a thing that comes to my attention - But you are the English native speaker, not me. I feel "harassment" as a word closely linked to sexual intentions. I feel we should have an anti-*disrepsect* policy. There are many ways to hurt or insult a person we should explicitly. You mentioned religious topics - We will be in an (yes, you have assured us, liberal and tolerant, but still) Muslim country. I know many people living in countries with Christian majorities and mindsets automatically view Muslims as stone-age barbarians. If we go this way, we should also explicitly discourage looking down on the locals. Respect goes in many dimensions. I do not think we can enumerate them all, and I do not think we can state (or enforce) much beyond our best intentions. But yes, I agree we should be explicit on opposing anything that will make any attendee feel hurt or attacked. _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
