On 28 August 2015 at 06:05, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 1:52 AM, Matthew Flaschen <mflaschen@wikimedia.org
wrote:
On 08/22/2015 10:52 PM, Risker wrote:
Perhaps more importantly....who were the local contacts at Hackathon
2015?
I can't even dig that one up in the event documentation.
https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon#Event_Organizers
See also in the first paragraph of that page: "All participants of Hackathon are expected to respect and abide by the Wikimania Friendly Space Policy https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy. Individuals not cooperating with this policy may be asked to leave the event."
A policy that exists but has no clear or visible support isn't worth the
bytes it's written with.
It should be in the email sent to all participants in advance (which it isn't), and the identities of those who will be available to support the policy must be clear. Simply pointing to the list of organizers is not sufficient - it's not uncommon for some hackathon organizers to not actually be in attendance, and it is rare that there is always an organizer available for all of the hours the hackathon runs, particularly since most hackathons include at least one overnight session. In short, organizers != those skilled to handle friendly space policy violations.
"May be asked to leave" is a good option, but there's no suggestion that other options exist.
Risker/Anne