Sebastian,

In my culture and, possibly in James's culture, accusations such as this one 
you are making against James, and the one Laura made against me a few weeks 
ago, are considered "harassment"... actually, extreme harassment. You are 
denying us the freedom to express our opinions or feelings in a rational way 
without fearing reprisals and intimidation as what the two of you have chosen 
to do.


We are all adults here (at least will be after Samson turns 18 on Halloween 😊 
). It's time we start acting like adults and stop "running to Mommie!"


GrannieB


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From: IAEP <[email protected]> on behalf of Sebastian Silva 
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 7:41 PM
To: James Cameron; Laura Vargas
Cc: iaep; SLOBs
Subject: [IAEP] Improving our Code of Conduct (was: Re: Code of Conduct Motion 
to add Anti-harassment policy - Sugar Labs)


Hi,

I had asked that we discuss changes to our Code of Conduct in a wiki 
page<https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Conduct> I have worked on, where 
I put the result of a lot of research.

The time I spent, back in January, on this document, is because I myself felt 
not only harassed but threatened. It came as a realization then, that perhaps 
more people have had similar experiences and have abandoned Sugar Labs because 
they were less tenacious than others. Hopefully you'll find the references I 
put there (beyond geek feminism) interesting. They represent a broad spectrum 
of approaches to making a community more welcoming.

I found our current Code of 
Conduct<https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Legal/Code_of_Conduct> was not 
sufficient because (1) it is vague and difficult to evaluate when it's been 
infringed. Cultures vary widely with regard to what is considerate, respectful, 
collaborative, and flexible. It would be much better if specific acceptable or 
not acceptable behaviors were listed. (2) There is no defined procedure on how 
to report a problem and what the expected outcome, timeline, or response could 
be. (3) There's no defined solution or action such as warning or temporarily 
moderating a person to signal bad behavior.

James, you insist on victimizing yourself and have a confrontational form of 
writing. Perhaps I'm misreading you. Please improve your tone. I have only seen 
vague complaints on the alleged dispute ("rate of posting and Wiki editing", 
and "use of many paths to achieve your goals").

If all of this is because I had the audacity to merge an icon, I feel your 
attitude is disproportionate, unfair and itself sufficient for a complaint. 
Trying to flag my github profile seems particularly aggressive and harmful, 
considering the market use of such profiles.

The trademarked icon has already been reinstated in master branch, but my valid 
concern (that neither Sugar Labs nor downstream distributors have permission to 
use it), has not been resolved. I raised the same question openly in 2016, and 
you responded with 
sarcasm<http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2016-04-01T19:01:31#i_2864254>.
 I don't think this is acceptable.

At the moment I don't support Laura's motion because I think it's necessary to 
write something more specific for Sugar Labs, taking into consideration the 
other references listed in the page at the least.

Regards,

Sebastian

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