On 10/01/16 21:31, Regina Obe wrote:
I was at the 2015 Australian Linux Conference (held in Auckland, NZ), when
Sarah Sharp harangued Linus Torvalds for over 20 minutes. Linus remained
calm and polite throughout, yet most people would have been obviously
annoyed within the first 5 minutes. As backround see:
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2988850/opensource-subnet/linux-kernel-d
ev-sarah-sharp-quits-citing-brutal-communications-style.html
I think some people, unintentionally, set themselves up as a victim.
So I would agree that a Coc is likely only to lead to arguments. Take
something innocuous like 'do not offend people' - sounds good, now politely
explain why someone's deeply held beliefs contradict reality!
Cheers,
Gavin
Sarah is my most favorite person in the world. I made critical comments on
her blog once when she went crazy on Linus which she deleted. I must be a
troll. I see now she's into doing stats on the people she deleted comments
of.
I initially heard about Sarah when I read an item about her being the
first to implement USB 3 support, and it was for Linux! So I started
off having tremendous respect for her. While I have programmed at the
assembly level for 3 different types of processors many years ago, I am
certain she is considerably more competent than I ever was technically.
http://sarah.thesharps.us/2016/01/07/metrics-of-haters/
I had a look at this.
While there obviously were some comments that I and most others would
utterly condemn - there was no breakdown of other comments. So no way of
knowing if she considered all criticism of her as being hateful.
Maybe we should suggest she should use PostgreSQL for that and demonstrate
our fancy stat functions.
She won Red Hat Woman of the Year Award -
https://www.redhat.com/en/about/women-in-open-source
Sarah Sharp
2015 Community Award winner
Am I the only one concerned about some of the women role models we have in
FOSS?
Am I, as a mere male, entitled to have an opinion on this? :-)
It is very sad, that some people would answer the above question with a
resounding no!
Thanks,
Regina
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