On 2011-05-10 Alin wrote:
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.
I agree with you that women in bikini in a presentation about opensuse/opensource can be bad taste... but feeling harassed by that seems to me a little bit too much.... bad taste != harassment
It serves no purpose while it does make people feel uncomfortable. Why not tell a presenter beforehand we don't want such imagery and ask them to find another way of making their point? Yes, that is surely one of the things this policy is meant to do - for presenters at least. Altough I would hope the visitors and presenters at our conference have the decency to think of this themselves.
Alin