Just wanted to reference the Attendee Policy text from GUADEC 2012. It was given in-full on the GUADEC website and there was a short version for printed material: http://piratepad.net/GQFAbjQmo7
Maybe GUADEC volunteers could also have a briefing session on steps to follow from any reportage. On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Karen Sandler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, January 3, 2013 12:12 pm, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 12:00 -0500, Karen Sandler wrote: > >> > Please do not believe that GNOME somehow is more special than other > >> > hacker communities. This assumption will only hinder you in > >> recognizing > >> > the problem. > >> > >> Absolutely. My point is really that discrimination occurs at a lot of > >> free > >> software conferences > > > > Can you define discrimination here, and discuss some past experiences in > > other conferences or at GUADEC? > > Actually, I think we discussed all of this at length when we adopted our > code of conduct and conference policy (though it was before my time as ED) > so I don't know that we need to discuss this again at the basic level. > > > > > Did we have to take action for "discriminatory behaviour" at GUADEC? > > What are currently our course of action when problems occur, are the > > Board or the organisers, or both responsible for enforcement? > > There have at least two incidents at GUADEC that I am aware of and another > one at a different GNOME event. As far as I know our previous actions have > been to make sure that the behavior ceases, then discuss the issue, often > eliciting an apology. This also includes talking to the target of the > remarks to make sure that we understand what kind of impact the incident > had and to try to ameliorate it. In other words, to my knowledge, the goal > is to make it clear that such behavior is unacceptable and do the best we > can to make sure it doesn't happen again. In the past I have seen both > board members and organizers get involved. Zero tolerance from everyone at > a conference really nips such behavior in the bud. > > FWIW, I've personally been subjected to a couple of sexist remarks at > other conferences, and this may contribute to my desire to do as good of a > job as we can. > > > I'd really like to understand what is defined as the problem before we > > discuss about guards against it, or enforcement. I also prefer > > encouraging the positive approaches (like WOP has done) than enforcement > > at a later date. > > I agree! I'm not talking about a long lecture about harassment, but short > discussion that we're a respectful community, that > harassment/discriminatory behavior makes the conference less fun for > everyone and that we've already got policies in place that we all need to > stick to. Linux.conf.au had a brief talk to this effect when I was there > and it was actually entertaining, while serious. > > karen > > _______________________________________________ > guadec-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list >
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