On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Yaakov Nemoy loupgaroublond@gmail.com wrote:
I think it's a matter of asking common sense from the right people. Sending a broadcast message to this mailing list is nowhere near as effective as going straight to the leader of the group. You get the leader to agree to do things better, and the rest of the group will fall in line. We don't need a policy that tells people how to behave, yes, we're not robots. What we really do need is leadership at events that will go over to someone and politely suggest 'you know, perhaps you should take your laptop upstairs to the hacking room.'
90% of it is what the message is, but the other half is how it's delivered. This is what it means to be professional.
On the other hand by raising the issue at least in the abstract here it made a lot of ambassadors and event owners think about their own behavior again. And I think that is a good thing really to be reminded about now and then.
John