Hi, On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 11:11:11AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
No, not at all, there are well defined definitions of harassment.
Don't pretend otherwise, to do so is to demean it.
That's exactly the point. With policies and similar things you have to start somewhere. It is unfortunate that you cannot make a perfect first approach to stop harassment or have a policy that is understood well by everyone and applies to all cultures. But you have to start somewhere. I have read many of those articles which inspired our policy and these articles made me sad. The most notable was the one (sorry, I don't have the link anymore) that the computer industry lacks women and the attendance of women at IT conferences is already very low compared to other industries, but even on top of that it is far worse with open source conferences. This is a message we all need to understand, because it simply means that women don't feel welcome and/or safe at open source conferences. Things need to change. One big step is the anti-harassment policy for openSUSE conference 2011. Thanks Jos! Thanks also to Greg for defending it! -- Bye, Stephan Barth Novell Technical Services, Worldwide Support Services Linux SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuremberg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org