On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 08:11:11PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I should preface this by saying that I personally don't feel that strongly >> about this one way or the other. But it came up in another forum that >> isn't the right place to talk about it, and I've been trying to make a >> point of doing my part to move some of those conversations to a better >> location. >> >> I was mildly surprised during registration by the inclusion of expletives >> as something that was ruled out by the conference code of conduct. My >> (not particularly well-researched) impression is that use of non-gendered >> expletives in English is something that's become somewhat generational. >> Using four-letter words was considered very impolite and unacceptable in >> professional public venues in my parents' generation, but appears to >> hardly be noticable in the generation in college now, with a change point >> somewhere around my generation. > > I think it's still quite reasonable to ask speakers to keep their talks > clean, and to ask conference participants (such as people asking > questions or participating in BoFs) to do the same. Many other > conferences do so, successfully, and it hardly seems like a major > imposition.
+1. I'd like to add that restraining oneself from using profanity (either as a speaker or as an audience member) in a public venue is common courtesy. Similarly as we choose our words when speaking to strangers. I might be tempted to use profanity with friends or coworkers, but I'd be much more careful with people I don't know or have never met. -mz _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss