Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (292 mails)

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 18:59 +0200, Egbert Eich wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:55:59PM +0200, Philipp Thomas wrote:
> > * Greg KH (gregkh@xxxxxxx) [20110509 19:12]:
> > > No, that's not true at all.  "Inappropriate" is something that is
> > > offensive to others.
> > With that you presto arrive at political correctness where everbody tries to
> > evade even the tiniest possibility of possibly being offensive and at least 
> > I
> > would not want to be part of it.
> > >  If you try to parse this out individually, sure,
> > > you can get stuck in the minor details of wordsmithing.
> > NO! It's not minor details of wordsmithing! You seem to assume that cultural
> > differences don't exist as otherwise you wouldn't talk in that way.
> YES, it is! 
> Skimming over the links posted on harassment cases on conferences
> I did not find a single one which I would have not considered
> inappropriate and I think most of us would feel the same way.

+1, the cultural-relativity argument is a straw-man.

And it is your conference; you get to define the culture.  I've been to
conferences and I'm pretty sure I was in the room for one of the
instances mentioned in the articles [presenter using slide of bikini
clad females].  It was ridiculous, and would have been ridiculous
anywhere.  Hooray to those who are putting some guidelines down.

Just make sure you send a copy to those presenting / volunteering; don't
just stash it on some forgotten wiki somewhere.

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