The first and last paras are particularly worth quoting:

> Earlier this year I pulled out of a conference because the organiser and I 
> disagreed on code of conducts. Specifically I thought there should be one, 
> and he did not. He did eventually add one, but refused to define unacceptable 
> behaviour. Myself and another woman pulled out.

...

> I don’t feel safe because there is a code of conduct. But I tell you one 
> thing that makes me feel unsafe – men who will endlessly, vociferously argue 
> against them. Maybe a code of conduct isn’t meaningful. But at this point, 
> refusing to listen, refusing to have one. Well, that is.


- d.



On 5 September 2015 at 23:07, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote:
> On the general subject of codes of conduct and what they bring (or
> don't bring) in terms of user safety and a sense of inclusion, I
> recently encountered
> http://www.catehuston.com/blog/2015/09/02/code-of-conducts-and-worthless-manfeelings/
> on Twitter - it's an interesting read and brings up a couple of points
> definitely worth thinking about, namely that the intent behind a CoC
> is not to be the be-all and end-all of user safety but instead to set
> a very minimum bound of what is acceptable.
>
> On 5 September 2015 at 17:39, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Why don't you comment on any of the three links provided in the email
>> you're replying to? That seems like an obvious venue for concerns you
>> might have.
>>
>> On 5 September 2015 at 17:32, rupert THURNER <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 10:37 PM, Matthew Flaschen <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> There is consensus at
>>>>
>>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_conduct_for_technical_spaces/Draft#Next_steps
>>>> that the best way to finalize the CoC draft is to focus on a few
>>>> sections at once (while still allowing people to comment on other
>>>> ones).  This allows progress without requiring people to monitor all
>>>> sections at once and lets us separate the questions of “what are our
>>>> goals here?” and “how should this work?”.  After these sections are
>>>> finalized, I recommend minimizing or avoiding later substantive
>>>> changes to them.
>>>>
>>>> The first sections being finalized are the intro (text before the
>>>> Principles section), Principles, and Unacceptable behavior.  These
>>>> have been discussed on the talk page for the last two weeks, and
>>>> appear to have stabilized.
>>>>
>>>> However, there may still be points that need to be refined. Please
>>>> participate in building consensus on final versions of these sections:
>>>>
>>>> *
>>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_conduct_for_technical_spaces/Draft
>>>>
>>>> *
>>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_conduct_for_technical_spaces/Draft
>>>>
>>>> If you are not comfortable contributing to this discussion under your
>>>> name or a pseudonym, you can email your feedback or suggestions to
>>>> [email protected] .  Quim Gil, Frances Hocutt, and
>>>> Kalliope Tsouroupidou will be monitoring this address and will
>>>> anonymously bring the points raised into the discussion at your
>>>> request.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> lol, consensus among whom, to what? i am against it (i'd love to send the
>>> reasons in another mail though), do i count, and it is still consensus?
>>> probably not, because i did maybe two unimportant commits for kiwix. i
>>> would prefer if you would be so kind to define one measurable criteria for
>>> the question "do we need a code of conduct", no matter if entry or success
>>> criteria. e.g
>>>
>>> * 50 volunteers from different part of the world saying that we need it
>>> * 20% of committers want it
>>> * after one year 20% more volunteer commits are done
>>>
>>> other critieria like "people attending conferences", or "mails written"
>>> would be a bad idea, as the goal is to have more contributions, not more
>>> conference tourists or mailing list tourists. what you think, matt, or quim
>>> ?
>>>
>>> best,
>>> rupert
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>>
>>
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