On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 14:53, Don Armstrong <[email protected]> wrote: > > If a model policy of conduct is enacted, it should also include a > > recommended plan of action for conference organizers so that > > conference organizers can fall back on a work flow to handle the > > situation.[1] > > For reference, linux.conf.au's policy is:
[...] This seems reasonable, and I'd be happy with a resolution which recommended it and/or a few similar policies that organizers could adopt and/or modify as they saw fit. > I think it's a bit optimistic to expect to have a procedure that > will handle these things [...] I personally wouldn't expect a procedure to handle these sorts of things perfectly, but a framework which could be used as a guide would be useful. [In the very few times I've been involved in similar situations, I've been able to fall back on similar procedures as a guide, mainly to make sure that the proper people had been notified, and I hadn't forgotten anything important.[0]] It's always hard in the heat of the moment to keep everything in perspective. Even if the procedure ended up being "Contact foo; in cases where foo cannot be contacted, or there is an immediate threat to life or property, dial 911[1]", it would be an improvement. Contingency planning is hard,. > Having organisers not take up any responsibility to help define > what's acceptable both before and after events doesn't make things > better from what I've seen. Certainly. I'm probably too naïve, and just expect people to know that they should behave excellently to each other.[2] Don Armstrong 0: Like resources I should be putting the victim in contact with, information I should be collecting, etc. 1: Or whatever the appropriate emergency number is coupled with instructions on how to reach an outside line. 2: Even though I know I've failed to behave excellently on some occasions myself. -- It can sometimes happen that a scholar, his task completed, discovers that he has no one to thank. Never mind. He will invent some debts. Research without indebtedness is suspect, and somebody must always, somehow, be thanked. -- Umberto Eco "How to Write an Introduction" http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
