Hi,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 5:58 PM, David William Bitner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bitner@dbspatial.com" target="_blank">bitner@dbspatial.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Dave,<div><br></div><div>As indicated by Jeff and Doug, this has not been an issue at any previous FOSS4G event. What has been an issue has been the diversity that we have been able to bring into both our community and our events. We are still a predominantly White European/US/Canadian male community. There has been a lot of work done by many tech conferences to try to make sure that conferences are more welcoming to a more broad array of folks (the rotation of NA/Europe/Elsewhere is one thing FOSS4G has done). The anti-harassment policy follows the lead of others and pulls from the template provided by Geek Feminism <a href="http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/index.php?title=Conference_anti-harassment_policy" target="_blank">http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/index.php?title=Conference_anti-harassment_policy</a>. Additionally following advice from other events as well as many members of our community, we are making the community review process for presentation submission author anonymous as a concern with how we have done this in the past has been the fear that many folks have of feeling publicly shamed with critique and voting of their proposals. These are only two small steps that we are taking to addressing an environment in the overall open source world that by the numbers is very unwelcome to women and other groups (while there have not been any overt issues that I know of as part of any FOSS4G, if you look at the percentage of female conference goers or developers in our community, we do have a long ways to go).</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thank you for rising this interesting topic. I don't exactly know why women (according to the numbers) prefer other fields instead of open source software (as I am a woman and I feel comfortable in this community maybe I'm not the right person to ask why other people don't). But I can certainly say why many people don't (can't) join the events.. as I wasn't able to do so as well.. Please don't take it bad, but the FOSS4G event is bloody *expensive* to afford! I am not surprised not to see at such events many people from developing countries, while in Europe and especially in US, research institutions allocate more funds for missions etc.</div>
<div><br></div><div>my 2 cents</div><div><br></div><div>madi</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<div><br></div><div>Hope this helps understand the rationale,</div><div><br></div><div>David</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Jeff McKenna <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" target="_blank">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">DaveP,<br>
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There have been no specific problems at FOSS4G events but I support the<br>
FOSS4G-NA's initiative for diversity and harassment-free policies.<br>
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-jeff<br>
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On 13-01-16 12:56 AM, Dave Patton wrote:<br>
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> David et al:<br>
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> I have no issue with the Harassment Policy, but I am curious<br>
> as to it's origin. Is it a result of specific problems at<br>
> other FOSS4G-related events?<br>
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