Re: [Ghm-discuss] The posh talk does not complain with the policy

[Niels Möller]

Luca Saiu <address@hidden> writes:

> I guess you're correct: a person who is very easily offended won't be
> willing to communicate.

I'm trying, but I'm probably not making myself clear enough. If a single
person is offended once at a conference, that's a kind of personal
conflict. I don't think that's a problem the policy is intended to
address. The problem it is intended to address is some hacker-minorities
being *repeatedly* mistreated, usually due to old habits rather than
malice. As a result, they'll feel unwelcome in the community, and are
very likely to leave.

> The proposed solution is to let her disrupt any talk she disapproves by
> sending home the speaker at the second warning.

If the current wording says so, I hope you can agree on improving it. I
imagine some concensus on the problem description is needed first.

I've put up an ancient file I've had lying around (by Dave Boyd, 1993, I
have no idea where or how originally published) at
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/misc/gender-diversity-training-experience.txt

Might be enlightning to some here (and boring to others).

Regards,
/Niels

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