On 12/08/2014 08:14 AM, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
On Saturday 06 December 2014 08:36:35 Carl Symons wrote:
At least some of the FOSDEM organizers believe that it's important. They
have a social conduct policy. It's published in the front of the program
brochure. Apparently John doesn't think that it is proper (whatever that
means):
"Social conduct policy
The FOSDEM organisers were surprised to hear that
harassment is a common problem at open source conferences
around the world. While we have no evidence of antisocial
behaviour ever having been a problem at FOSDEM, we would
like to remind everyone that harassment of any kind will
not be tolerated. Please report any concerns to a FOSDEM
staff member (yellow shirts), or contact our coordinator
Wynke on (telephone number)"
from the 2014 conference in plain view
(https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/assets/booklet-a1fec82960ed17ed7974bc2e9951
dfc898c83318f8634f7ee046d952ada8ecb7.pdf)
That sounds pretty much exactly what at least I would be looking for in a code
of conduct, I think it is quite well written and balanced.
However, the important disadvantage of making your CoC available only to
people who are already _at_ the conference is that people for whom the
presence of a CoC is a criterion for joining the conference will never know
there is one.
So if they just put their social conduct policy on their website in addition
to the brochure, I think it would be fine.
Could you maybe ask your FOSDEM contact if they could do that, Carl?
Thanks,
Thomas
Closing the loop on this request...
About 2 hours after this message, I wrote to the FOSDEM contacts.
Message below [1].
I did not receive a reply, and I can't find anything about the Code of
Conduct on the FOSDEM site.
My colleague (a woman) wrote:
"Not that I am personally against a code of conduct, but being a FOSDEM
attendee for the last 3 years, I don't feel that FOSDEM is not
welcoming to women, or that it discriminates in any way.
"I might be biased since I am one of FOSDEM organizers, but I truly
think that FOSDEM is the foss event with less, if any, discrimination.
But I would also be truly sorry if someone had a bad experience we
don't know of."
Carl
[1] Message to FOSDEM contacts
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Mon, 08 Dec 2014 09:49:29 -0800
This issue has generated some interesting conversations within KDE.
One person who supports your social conduct policy asked if it would be
possible to have that statement on the FOSDEM website for people who
don't actually attend and receive the attendee booklet. Perhaps a link
on the About page.
That person wrote:
"That sounds pretty much exactly what at least I would be looking for in
a code
of conduct, I think it is quite well written and balanced.
However, the important disadvantage of making your CoC available only to
people who are already _at_ the conference is that people for whom the
presence of a CoC is a criterion for joining the conference will never know
there is one."
Do you think that there could be a website link to the policy?
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