On Saturday, June 17, 2017 at 2:53:23 PM UTC-4, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > A code of conduct is a totally stupid idea for RacketCon. Racketeers were > raised properly by their parents and are well behaved. I really hate > attending conferences that need to impose a code.
Not all people at the conference will be Racketeers. Not all people at the conference will have the same definition of "raised properly by their parents". Not all people considering attending the conference will know whether or not this is a safe community. Some may be unwilling to spend the money to attend RacketCon without knowing ahead of time that they are meant to be welcome. Some may not be interested in a community that refuses to explicitly say toxic people are unwelcome. If you all have a definition of what "raised properly by their parents" means, writing down that definition both deters potentially toxic people from attending and, more importantly, attracts people who have previously had bad experiences at programming language conferences. A code of conduct is a simple signal of inclusivity and it helps people decide whether a community is worth their time and energy. I don't doubt that you all will continue to treat each other with respect (and deal with people who are not respectful) with or without a code of conduct. But I would suggest by not being explicit, you are making an unfortunate tradeoff: excluding a set of people who could otherwise be valuable members of your community by leaving the door open for toxicity. Needless to say, as a RacketCon attendee, Racket observer, and person who has experienced harassment and other inappropriate behavior at conferences in the past, +1 for a code of conduct. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
