On 22 August 2015 at 22:36, Tim Landscheidt tim@tim-landscheidt.de wrote:
(anonymous) wrote:
[...]
So yeah...you need a code of conduct. Because if I was even 15 years younger, I'd never go to a Wikimedia conference.
Wikimedia conferences are already governed by the so-called "Friendly space policy" (cf. https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy).
Tim
That's very recent - December 2014 for the "general" one - and it certainly wasn't considered to apply at Wikimania 2014 (this is from direct knowledge of an incident). Who was the local "code of conduct" person at Wikimania 2015? Was their information published? Was it advertised in the handouts for the session? (Hint - it's on the Wikimania2015 website, but not on written materials that I received.)
Perhaps more importantly....who were the local contacts at Hackathon 2015? I can't even dig that one up in the event documentation.
A policy that exists but has no clear or visible support isn't worth the bytes it's written with.
Risker/Anne