On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Jos Poortvliet
Hi all,
I'd like to have a code of conduct or anti-harassment policy at our conference, see for reasons my latest blog at http://blog.jospoortvliet.com
I made a draft: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Code_of_Conduct
Please, any input is more than welcome! But read before replying, there is a FAQ already so don't ask what is answered there ;-)
Cheers, Jos
(resend) If the primary concern is sexual harassment, the US military instituted a fairly simple rule 10+ years ago that seems to work for them. In addition to a document which defines harrasment, they instituted a green light, yellow light, red light system. If in discussion a person feels the conversation is veering into questionable territory, they can say yellow light. I think the others are to take that as, your close to the line, but didn't go over it. If someone says "red light", then the line was crossed and the person should immediately stop whatever they were doing. I believe the fundamental reason for that is what Per is saying, what is appropriate varies from culture to culture, person to person, and sometimes even time to time. Thus what might be in appropriate in the first few minutes of meeting someone, may become a welcome advance at the end of the second private dinner together. But with the traffic light system, when I guy makes crude but not totally inappropriate statement, a woman can simply say "yellow light". Meaning you didn't offend me, but that's as far as it going so don't try anything else. One thing I believe they liked about this system was it was intuitively obvious and did not require a lot of instruction. ie. ==== What did you do after she said red-light? She was just playing hard to get, so I tried to kiss her. Guilty - bye. ==== Greg -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer CNN/TruTV Aired Forensic Imaging Demo - http://insession.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/23/how-computer-evidence-gets-retriev... The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org