Forwarding to council-discuss and outreach lists. On (Wed) 15 Jul 2015 [12:58:08], Beth Lynn Eicher wrote: > As one of the author's of the conference anti-harassment policy > template, I would like to comment. The policy is here: > http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassment/Policy > > When we first published it ~4 years ago, I discussed the CoC vs an > event anti-harassment policy with a Red Hat employee, who I will not > name because this person might not work for the company. I was told > that Red Hat legal discussed it and decided that the CoC was enough. I > said that I was fine with that as long as it was clearly identified as > to who were the event organizers or board members at in person > gatherings. I would also want a reminder that the CoC was in effect as > not everyone at a FUDCon or FAD has necessarily become an officially > signed up as an official Fedora contributor. > > I had been brought into the discussion of banning someone from future > events for a non-Fedora, Free-Software-related project. The incident > itself, in my opinion, warranted a demand for a written apology but > not a full-bown perma-ban. However, due to the discomfort level of the > greater the community, it would not be a good idea to welcome this > individual to be in this space. To be clear, this was more than one > person who felt unsafe around the offender, it was half the community > having unpleasant interactions with this person. Events could not > resume until this person was told that they were not welcome. It took > awhile to draft such as message as the ban impacts more that just the > accused. I felt that this offender's associates, two others who were > innocent by all accounts, would be unfairly excluded too. A compromise > was worked out for the associates and they are most welcome to > participate. > > As an Ohio LinuxFest board member, we have zero blacklisted > individuals from our events due to prior event misconduct. However, we > do honor requests when an attendee has a restraining order or similar > protections, to keep an eye out for the harasser's registration and > deny entry. > > The power to ban someone from your project and its events, in my > opinion, in rightfully given to the Fedora Board. It is not a matter > to be taken lightly or with haste. The power to eject the offender > from the event rightfully is with the event organizers to handle the > immediate situation. > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 8:16 AM, Amit Shah <amitshah@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > While organising the recent FUDCon in Pune we included a code of conduct, similar to the previous Flocks and other conferences worldwide. > > > > I was wondering if we have any mechanisms in place where we can blacklist someone if indeed there was a violation. > > > > I'm thinking of a Fedora project specific blacklist as well as a shared blacklist for major conferences worldwide. > > > > The CoC would be pretty useless if there's no way to ban (from future gatherings) someone indulging in activities unwelcome to the project. > > > > Also, we should include what steps we would take as a project depending on the nature of the violation in the CoC text itself. > > > > If we already have such a mechanism in place, please point me to it. If not, would there be interest in setting up a service at least for Fedora events? > > > > Amit > > -- > > http://amitshah.net > > -- > > ambassadors mailing list > > ambassadors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors > > > > -- > Thanks, > > Beth Lynn Eicher > -- > ambassadors mailing list > ambassadors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors Amit -- http://log.amitshah.net/ _______________________________________________ outreach mailing list outreach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/outreach
