On Wed, 2018-06-06 at 07:27 +0200, Chris Travers wrote: > The real fear here is the code of conduct being co-opted as a weapon > of world-wide culture war and that's what is driving a lot of the > resistance here. This is particularly an American problem here and > it causes a lot of resistance among people who were, until the > second world war, subject to some pretty serious problems by colonial > powers. I don't see how this could happen any more than it already can, because as far as I can tell the goal is not to discuss complaints in public; the committee would handle cases in private. And if committee members would try to abuse their power, I'm pretty sure they would be removed. > Putting a bunch of American lawyers, psychologists, sociologists, > marketers etc on the board in the name of diversity would do way more > harm than good. I didn't say they have to be American, and I didn't say there has to be a bunch of them. I just said it would be good if there were also people who aren't (just only) developers, DBAs or other very technical people. -- Jan Claeys
