[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G North America Announcements

[Dave Patton]

On 2013/01/15 11:32 AM, David William Bitner wrote:

> *Greetings!
>
> The planning committee of the 2013 Free and Open Source Software for
> Geospatial North America (FOSS4G-NA) conference to be held May 22-24 in
> Minneapolis, MN is pleased to make the following announcements which were
> recently posted to our website at http://foss4g-na.org.

> DIVERSITY
> In an effort to foster a diversity of voices the community voting will be
> done in a "presenter anonymous" fashion. In other words, you will be voting
> for the topic and abstract content, not the potential presenter.  FOSS4G-NA
> is dedicated to a harassment-free conference
> experience<http://foss4g-na.org/harrassment-policy/>

David et al:

I have no issue with the Harassment Policy, but I am curious
as to it's origin. Is it a result of specific problems at
other FOSS4G-related events?

-- 
Dave Patton
Victoria, B.C.

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