[fudcon-planning] #86: Consider anti-harrassment policy for FUDCon

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#86: Consider anti-harrassment policy for FUDCon
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 Reporter:  pfrields                |        Owner:  pfrields
     Type:  Task                    |       Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal                  |    Milestone:          
Component:  FUDCon Blacksburg 2012  |   Resolution:          
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Comment (by bochecha):

 Replying to [comment:7 adamwill]:
 > I'd like to re-open this, and propose a modification: why don't we have
 a *Fedora* anti-harassment policy? There is no need to restrict it to
 conferences, or a conference. Fedora is an inherently community-based
 project, and I don't see any problem with asserting a requirement that
 people refrain from harassment in all involvement with the Fedora
 community. That way, events (starting with the next FUDCon) and Fedora
 sub-projects can simply 'include' the project-wide anti-harassment policy.

 I'd go even further in the direction of your modification and suggest that
 we shouldn't restrict it to harrassment at all.

 I would have thought that harrassment was covered by the existing policy
 of being excellent to each other? At least it seems to me that harrassing
 someone is nothing but an example (although a pretty bad one) of a
 behavior that is not excellent.

 Perhaps we'd need a policy that says something like:
 {{{
 **Be excellent to each other.**

 That's it, really. But if you need it, here are a few examples
 of what we do not consider to be excellent behavior:
 - harrassment, by electronic means or in real life (e.g at conferences)
 - discrimination of any kind
 - ...

 Again, those are examples and should not be considered an exhaustive
 list of stuff you're not allowed to do. The exhaustive definition
 is contained in the first sentance of this policy.
 }}}

 I agree with Adam that we need to have a more explicit policy for events
 and more generally for all community interactions, but I'd rather have a
 very broad definition like the one we seem to have used implicitly for a
 while.

 I would hope that cases of harrassment would generally be relatively easy
 to agree on as being an example of a "not excellent behavior" and so they
 would be objected by the whole community, without the need for any
 official enforcement (as a strict policy would require).

 But maybe I'm just too optimistic and most people would need the threat of
 that enforcement before they behave properly...

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