The proposed speaker guidelines have a serious problem. Since they prohibit anything that makes someone uncomfortable, regardless of why, and since criticism of one's actions tends to make many people uncomfortable, the consequence is to prohibit serious criticism of any practice that is followed by someone in the audience.
For instance, when I asserted that use of C# was risky, someone in the audience objected, claiming that this was unfair to the C# language. Apparently that person felt uncomfortable with what I said about C#. It seems that these proposed guidelines would prohibit any statement that GNOME needs to avoid a certain practice lest it cause a serious problem. These proposed guidelines themselves can make someone uncomfortable. For instance, people who want to state firm criticism of a certain practice, whether on ethical or practical or technical grounds, may feel uncomfortable on being reminded that GNOME policy forbids the expression of such views. Thus, among the actions prohibited by these proposed guidelines would be reciting or summarizing the very same guidelines. Is it the intention to prohibit these things? If not, I think the wording needs some work. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list