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On (Wed) 15 Jul 2015 [12:58:08], Beth Lynn Eicher wrote:
As one of the author's of the conference anti-harassment policy template, I would like to comment. The policy is here: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassment/Policy
When we first published it ~4 years ago, I discussed the CoC vs an event anti-harassment policy with a Red Hat employee, who I will not name because this person might not work for the company. I was told that Red Hat legal discussed it and decided that the CoC was enough. I said that I was fine with that as long as it was clearly identified as to who were the event organizers or board members at in person gatherings. I would also want a reminder that the CoC was in effect as not everyone at a FUDCon or FAD has necessarily become an officially signed up as an official Fedora contributor.
I had been brought into the discussion of banning someone from future events for a non-Fedora, Free-Software-related project. The incident itself, in my opinion, warranted a demand for a written apology but not a full-bown perma-ban. However, due to the discomfort level of the greater the community, it would not be a good idea to welcome this individual to be in this space. To be clear, this was more than one person who felt unsafe around the offender, it was half the community having unpleasant interactions with this person. Events could not resume until this person was told that they were not welcome. It took awhile to draft such as message as the ban impacts more that just the accused. I felt that this offender's associates, two others who were innocent by all accounts, would be unfairly excluded too. A compromise was worked out for the associates and they are most welcome to participate.
As an Ohio LinuxFest board member, we have zero blacklisted individuals from our events due to prior event misconduct. However, we do honor requests when an attendee has a restraining order or similar protections, to keep an eye out for the harasser's registration and deny entry.
The power to ban someone from your project and its events, in my opinion, in rightfully given to the Fedora Board. It is not a matter to be taken lightly or with haste. The power to eject the offender from the event rightfully is with the event organizers to handle the immediate situation.
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 8:16 AM, Amit Shah amitshah@gmx.net wrote:
Hello all,
While organising the recent FUDCon in Pune we included a code of conduct, similar to the previous Flocks and other conferences worldwide.
I was wondering if we have any mechanisms in place where we can blacklist someone if indeed there was a violation.
I'm thinking of a Fedora project specific blacklist as well as a shared blacklist for major conferences worldwide.
The CoC would be pretty useless if there's no way to ban (from future gatherings) someone indulging in activities unwelcome to the project.
Also, we should include what steps we would take as a project depending on the nature of the violation in the CoC text itself.
If we already have such a mechanism in place, please point me to it. If not, would there be interest in setting up a service at least for Fedora events?
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Beth Lynn Eicher
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