Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (292 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, May 09, 2011 09:47:46 PM jdd wrote:
> Le 09/05/2011 21:22, Andreas Jaeger a écrit :
> > Btw. let me add two URLs that convinced me that we need such a policy:
> > https://lwn.net/Articles/417952/
> > http://jezebel.com/5705980/women-fed-up-with-open-source-community-creeps
>
> we need a way to avoid such things. I personnally think a written
> policy is of little use. It makes us feel good and keep bad old habits...

I don't see a different way - and looking what others write, this seems to be 
the best option.

> I speciall y like this link:
>
> http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/index.php?title=Timeline_of_incidents
>
> but then you simply discover our society [our :-))) you see I'm in
> occident] is incredibly sexist, what may not be a surprise.
>
> this makes me think we need actions, not policies. The problem seems
> to be mostly sexism. If so *we* should have, as organisation, a self
> policy, specially aimed to the presenters and organisers. The
> harassment list of Jos seem aimed at individual harassement, when I
> see the references more speaking of collective harassement.
>
> For example, the more recent thing:
>
> http://blog.mozilla.com/dherman/2011/05/02/a-failure-of-imagination/
>
> the problem there is not that of the public, but that of the organiser.
>
> Thats why I asked for a survey of the problems. I never imagined a
> conference organiser could do such a thing!
>
> We need a list of stupid things to avoid. Nobody will read (or
> remember code of conduct), but some small sentences, yes. Do not name
> the hurricanes only from female surnames...

Some of that is already in Jos' proposal - and if you have other examples, 
please name them - or suggest a different proposal,

Andreas
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