The workshop will absolutely not be recorded. If we do record a future
workshop, it will be done the same way as the video currently on our web
site: I will repeat everyone's comments myself and the video editor will
edit out all the participant comments.

-VAL

On Tuesday, July 14, 2015, Carol Moore dc <[email protected]> wrote:

> Another good option. People who want to speak out should not be silenced
> by those who say they don't want to be taped. (And heavens forbid it be the
> guys who want to harass us or their female enablers.)
>
> On 7/14/2015 10:02 AM, WereSpielChequers wrote:
>
>> Hi Carole,
>>
>> But if you ask people to lurk out of camera shot and not ask questions
>> unless they are willing to have them taped aren't you making them second
>> class participants at that event?
>>
>> Better in my view to create an edited taped version, and if someone
>> isn't prepared to be in the final cut try to resolve their objections.
>> It may be they are OK if a narrator says their words and their face is
>> pixellated, or perhaps they need their bit replaced by a shot of someone
>> reacting to their words and the narrator saying "a participant gave a
>> personal example of harassment"
>>
>>
>>
>> On 14 July 2015 at 13:40, Carol Moore dc <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>     I definitely understand Risker's point, but despite my jokes about
>>     metaphorical "gang bang at Wikipedia", this really isn't a
>>     discussion of personal violence and assault, but of organized
>>     political intimidation.  And we should feel free to speak out about
>>     that and make sure lots of people hear us.  Otherwise we are just
>>     victimizing ourselves by embracing our oppression instead of
>>     fighting it.
>>
>>     Having attended some such events at Wikimania 2012, and seen the
>>     issues discussed at least briefly in one or more taped
>>     presentations, off hand I don't remember any guys being really
>>     obnoxious. (I do remember the story of the NYC event where guys WERE
>>     being obnoxious, however.) Hopefully, they are NOT becoming more
>>     organized like the guys who disrupted the Gender Gap Task Force.
>>
>>     Probably the best thing is to discuss whether to tap and let
>>     participants decide and if only a few object they can stay out of
>>     camera range and ask any comments they make not be taped.  That is
>>     done at a lot of different events.
>>
>>     On 7/13/2015 10:46 PM, Risker wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>         On 13 July 2015 at 21:37, Carol Moore dc
>>         <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>         <mailto:[email protected]
>>         <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
>>
>>              On 7/13/2015 3:50 PM, Valerie Aurora wrote:
>>
>>                  Hi folks,
>>
>>                  Several people have asked whether the Ally Skills
>>         Workshop will
>>                  be an
>>                  unpleasant experience for women attending - specifically,
>>                  whether men
>>                  will dominate the conversation, dismiss what women say,
>>         etc. We
>>                  spend
>>                  the first 20 minutes of the workshop setting up
>>         discussion rules so
>>                  that this doesn't happen - in fact, the workshop is
>>         real-world
>>                  practice in how to have a discussion in ways that give
>>         women an
>>                  equal
>>                  chance to be respectfully heard.
>>
>>
>>              Make sure you tape it and they all know it will be going up
>>         online?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>         I hope not, or it will really, really change the willingness of
>>         participants to share their experiences and stories.  In some
>>         cases it
>>         would have the effect of revictimizing the victims.
>>
>>         I can sympathize with your wish to see how it goes, Carol - I'll
>>         be in a
>>         required session a few doors down the hall while this takes place,
>>         although I'd really like to participate.  But from the bigger
>>         picture, I
>>         think it's better that the session not be publicly accessible.
>>
>>         Risker/Anne
>>
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