On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:13:01PM +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote: > I've discussed this in private one-to-one conversations with several > organization team members and everyone is uncomfortable with having > such a policy.
I'm uncomfortable attending a conference run by people who feel uncomfortable with having such a policy. Such policies have proven more effective than generic "Be friendly" policies in creating an atmosphere of safety, and despite frequent claims that they'll result in a chilling effect there's been no evidence of that whatsoever. I've been to five conferences so far this year. All have had a strong anti-harassment policy. People have complained about the lack of tea. People have complained about the distance from an airport. People have complained about having a rail freight line running through the convention centre. I have heard *no* complaints about the code of conduct. I have seen nobody's speech stifled. I have seen no false complaints made. Given that many large conferences (including OSCON, LCA, the OpenStack summit and every Linux Foundation event) with a cumulative total of thousands of attendees have implemented such policies, if chilling effects were likely shouldn't we have seen complaints already? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
