[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G North America Announcements

[Newcomb, Doug]

It's been a topic for controversy at some other open source software
events.  I've not seen it as an issue at any of the FOSS4G events that I
have attended, but I think it's a good idea to have such a policy in place.

Doug

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Dave Patton <davep at confluence.org> wrote:

> 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/<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?
>
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