I know you said your questions are rhetorical and there's no need to reply, but I feel somewhat compelled to reply regardless. :-)
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:55:32 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Such guidelines should pretty clearly spell out that if content is NSFW, it doesn't belong on an openSUSE site, period, end of story.
Aren't we getting a little carried away here?
Perhaps on that front - the overriding issue is the issue that Katarina brought up, of course.
To start with, NSFW according to which culture and whose rules?
I'd say that for something like this, fairly conservative rules are what would make sense. In this case, we're talking about the objectification of women, and I think you'd be hard pressed to find a modern culture that deemed that acceptable.
It's not a question of PC-ness, it's a question of being respectful - and it's a question of the image of the openSUSE project as a whole. On a personal blog, I might find it inappropriate, but it's not a personal blog that represents a product or service that I'm interested in. Pulled into a website that is official for a product or service I care very much for, though, it's totally inappropriate because the reader/viewer can take that publication to be acceptance of that as a social norm/standard, and that's what makes it objectionable from a project standpoint.
If you want a comparison point for cultural factors, try this: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/a rticle6811478.ece. This was a nice mess caused by a local team using local cultural factors to make the ad more locally acceptable, but its impact globally was definitely negative. You can't get it right all the time, but a bit of thinking would have told the local team that what they were doing was going to be a problem. The same with this image. We all have to be mindful of the global audience for everything we do on the internet. David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org