[Openstack] Fwd: Making the Hong Kong Summit as inclusive as possible
David Mortman
launchpad at mortman.com
Wed Sep 11 17:43:35 UTC 2013
Daniel,
Love the click through idea
-DM
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 03:53:36PM +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> > David Mortman wrote:
> > > Given the recent and ongoing issues with sexism (not to mention racism,
> > > homophobia and general bigotry) at tech conferences, I recently engaged
> > > with several folks on twitter about what was being done to make sure
> > > that the Hong Kong Summit was as inclusive as possible regardless of an
> > > attendee's age, sex, orientation, race or anything else. I think a good
> > > place to start would be an official anti-harassment policy and a
> > > process for people to report issues to the event organizers who can
> then
> > > deal with the issue appropriately. I am happy to help with the drafting
> > > of both the policy and the process. What do folks think?
> >
> > FWIW the summit already has a minimal policy and reporting guidelines
> > (see at the bottom of
> > http://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-hong-kong-2013/):
> >
> > """
> > Reminder: Be Excellent
> >
> > Be excellent to everyone. If you think someone is not being excellent to
> > you at the OpenStack Summit call <PHONE> or email <EMAIL>.
> > """
>
> As a point of comparison, Linux Foundation says this
>
>
> https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum/attend/our-event-policy
>
> I think the Open Stack policy there could do with being expanded to be a
> bit more explicit than just "Be excellant to everyone", more akin to what
> Linux Foundation say.
>
> I also think it ought to be a bit more prominent - I looked through that
> link you mention and didn't even notice this footnote. Ideally on the
> conf registration form, there'd be a clear note saying "By registering
> you agreed to about by our code of conduct" linking to the text
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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