Hi, On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 07:37:41PM +0200, Jose E. Marchesi wrote: > > >From http://www.gnu.org/ghm/policy.html: > > "Offensive or overly explicit sexual language or imagery is > inappropriate during the event, including presentations. > > Participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled > from the meeting at the discretion of the organizers. > > Harassment includes offensive comments related to gender, sexual > orientation, disability, appearance, body size, race, religion, > sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, > harassing photography or recording, persistent disruption of talks > or other events, repeated unsolicited physical contact, or sexual > attention." > > Since I do not desire to be dennounced, prosecuted and finally > sanctioned or expelled from the event (especially considering the > physical pain and inconvenience of attending due to my very recent > accident) I withdraw my intention to lecture "Introducing GNU Posh" at > the GHM, as it is not compliant with the policy described in the page > above. > > Please remove the talk from the official schedule. Thanks. > > PS: for those interested, I may perform the talk off-event in case we > find a suitable place, we will see..
Yeah, I was pretty surprised we put such a policy online - what was the motivation? Was there any issue in a past GHM? I understand that it's more and more common to see this in larger events, but that feels wrong... I find this kind of policy condescending. Should we modify it? -- Sylvain
