I agree with what others have said and wanted to add that these are increasingly common at conferences I've attended.
I feel it's a proactive approach to addressing this problem. Conveys community expectations in a fair, balanced and direct way. Provides an important fallback for folks fearing retaliation for reporting harassment, etc. Plus organizers of events unsure of their footing on handling issues like this. Having had the opportunity to help with anti-bullying legislation, I'm pleased that it falls within a lot of recommendations made by folks who were studying this behavior before Wikipedia was even a twinkle in Jimbo's eyes. :)
Kudos for drafting it and being thoughtful / intentional enough to modify for Wikimedia usage. I can honestly say I haven't see licensing preferences as an enumerated category before. :)
I agree with Chad - it's a good candidate for wider Wikimedia use. Perhaps aude and others within WMDC can consider this for Wikimania as well?
-greg aka varnent
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On Jan 12, 2012, at 1:44 PM, Trevor Parscal wrote:
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".
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