Hi, Thanks Javier, I think this is a great initiative.
I think two things would be useful: being specific about who are the points of contact. Perhaps this could be part of the intro spiel. Ideally they would be mentioned by name and be standing at the front of the room to be visible. Second is having a clear idea about what action those people might take, when a report is made. The Geek Feminism wiki has a ton of information on Code of Conducts and a page all about responding to reports: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassment/Responding_to_reports I suggest this as a starting point, not that everything here should be adopted wholesale for MPUG. I think it is important that the organisers "own" the policy in that they have been deliberate in their thinking and this is actively how they want to approach it. Another thing that is cool is encouraging bystanders to speak up if they hear/see something inappropriate. I went to a talk by Karen Sandler earlier this year and she had the whole audience practice saying "Dude, that's not cool". It is pretty cheesy but it's not a bad ice-breaker, and I actually heard someone at a later talk say it - so it works! I think this is really great because a lot of small things may not constitute harassment but nonetheless can make you feel unwelcome. Having someone else speak up like that feels amazing. And also, it shows that you don't have to perfectly articulate exactly why something was inappropriate, or berate someone for what may be an innocent or just thoughtless mistake. cheers, Brianna On 10 March 2015 at 14:34, Huw Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10 Mar 2015, at 1:56 am, Tim Krins <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Huw, > > It is probably because the link you clicked on in this email is part of > the Wiki wording, and the sending email client has include the pipe > character in the URL it detected. > > If you strip out the wiki markdown formatting, you will get > http://2013.pycon-au.org/register/code_of_conduct , which should link you > to the article. > > > Thanks to all who pointed this out. Now that I can see it, I very much > agree with it. > > Huw Davies | e-mail: [email protected] > > Melbourne | "If soccer was meant to be played in the > > Australia | air, the sky would be painted green" > > > _______________________________________________ > melbourne-pug mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug > > -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/
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