What if you need more attention and want to be harassed?
Amir: Also, SVN does kinda suck :P
Seriously though, this looks great.
I've been fortunate enough to not have been harassed at a conference much more than being trolled on occasion, but I think that's a more borderline case that doesn't quite warrant any serious actions.
That said, I think there's an excuse game that gets played a lot. When I've expressed concern in the past I've often been told things like like "yeah, but they are a really good contributor, that's just how they are, deal with it" or "they're [enter country of origin here], that's just how they are, deal with it".
This lays some ground rules that are fair in any venue around the world. Thanks for putting this together.
- Trevor
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
2012/1/12 Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:04 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com
wrote:
On 12 January 2012 16:00, Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org
wrote:
The Wikimedia Foundation is dedicated to a harassment-free conference experience for everyone. I'm proposing a fairly short and standard anti-harassment policy of the type that's becoming best practice for tech conferences and hackathons. Draft: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sumanah/AHP
Nice one :-) A candidate for WMF and wider Wikimedia events in
general, too.
I don't see anything preventing harassment over choice of DBMS ;-)
In all seriousness, i was harassed more than once IRL and online for saying that SVN doesn't suck as much as die-hard Git fans say it does. This policy can say "preferred technology" in addition to "Creative Commons license".
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
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