It's been a topic for controversy at some other open source software events. I've not seen it as an issue at any of the FOSS4G events that I have attended, but I think it's a good idea to have such a policy in place.
Doug On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Dave Patton <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2013/01/15 11:32 AM, David William Bitner wrote: > > *Greetings! >> >> >> The planning committee of the 2013 Free and Open Source Software for >> Geospatial North America (FOSS4G-NA) conference to be held May 22-24 in >> Minneapolis, MN is pleased to make the following announcements which were >> recently posted to our website at http://foss4g-na.org. >> > > DIVERSITY >> In an effort to foster a diversity of voices the community voting will be >> done in a "presenter anonymous" fashion. In other words, you will be >> voting >> for the topic and abstract content, not the potential presenter. >> FOSS4G-NA >> is dedicated to a harassment-free conference >> experience<http://foss4g-na.**org/harrassment-policy/<http://foss4g-na.org/harrassment-policy/> >> > >> > > David et al: > > I have no issue with the Harassment Policy, but I am curious > as to it's origin. Is it a result of specific problems at > other FOSS4G-related events? > > -- > Dave Patton > Victoria, B.C. > > Degree Confluence Project: > Canadian Coordinator > Technical Coordinator > http://www.confluence.org/ > > Personal website: > http://members.shaw.ca/**davepatton/ <http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/> > ______________________________**_________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/**mailman/listinfo/discuss<http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss> > -- Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats.
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