Re: Encouraging Diversity - Update 6

2016-11-16 Thread Niclas Hedhman
Sam, you are conflating the concerns. This is not ON/OFF logic, with a possibly more than one dimension of shading and positioning one (relatively extreme) case as the norm for how to interact, is not the way to deal with this. (analogy; "Person killed in traffic. Ban all cars.") Niclas On Thu,

Re: On Codes of Conduct

2016-11-16 Thread William A Rowe Jr
On Nov 17, 2016 04:03, "Noah Slater" wrote: > > He offered to copy the email to the list in the reply I was responding to. Not directed toward you, but I had thought to bring this up a week or so earlier when I first read their article and other hostile email traffic, and the welcome plenary at A

Re: On Codes of Conduct

2016-11-16 Thread Noah Slater
He offered to copy the email to the list in the reply I was responding to. :) I can't resist pointing out the irony of you flagging my conduct on a public list, in an email thread you started to criticise me for flagging someones conduct on the same list. ;) Also, I want to challenge your charact

Re: On Codes of Conduct

2016-11-16 Thread William A Rowe Jr
I think you misinterpreted a couple things... On Nov 17, 2016 02:18, "Noah Slater" wrote:. > > I quoted a chunk of an email that was sent to me privately because the > person who sent it had already offered to copy it to the list. I saved him > the trouble by excerpting the bit I wanted to remark

Re: Encouraging Diversity - Update 6

2016-11-16 Thread Noah Slater
Agreed with Sam. Saying "ignore it" ensures our communities will only be made up of people who are hardy enough or privileged enough to be able to ignore such things. We're not enforcing people's feelings of safety. Nor are we enforcing people's happiness. Of course, we could never do that. They

Re: Encouraging Diversity - Update 6

2016-11-16 Thread Sam Ruby
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 8:38 PM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > > 3. IGNORE IT > > You don't have to read what other people write, you don't have to > internalize it and you may convince others to do the same. For 20 years, > this was the number one defense against trolls and poisonous people. Strongly

Re: Encouraging Diversity - Update 6

2016-11-16 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Noah Slater wrote: > Okay, back to the topic. > Ok, good. > Perhaps we should update the code of conduct. It seems that a lot of the > unease here relates to the nature of our planned responses to conduct > infractions. > That is one part, the second is someth

Re: On Codes of Conduct

2016-11-16 Thread Noah Slater
The thread you're referencing contains a number of actionable, productive suggestions. Indeed, mine and other's participation on that thread was an attempt to counteract derailment. I quoted a chunk of an email that was sent to me privately because the person who sent it had already offered to cop

On Codes of Conduct

2016-11-16 Thread William A Rowe Jr
So I just sort of boggled at an post that seemed to quote private correspondence while making a CoC accusation, or at least that's what I think I read. Many of us know the holidays for the airing of grievances arrives in 2 months, but public archived email lists really are simply not the place. We

Re: Encouraging Diversity - Update 6

2016-11-16 Thread Noah Slater
Okay, back to the topic. Perhaps we should update the code of conduct. It seems that a lot of the unease here relates to the nature of our planned responses to conduct infractions. I can tell you how I see it, as one of the people behind the work that went into our code of conduct. There are two

Re: Encouraging Diversity - Update 6

2016-11-16 Thread Noah Slater
This is the last email I am going to send on the specifics of me not liking the response I got on this thread. I have a follow-up email that will hopefully get us back on topic. Here's an excerpt of what you chose to email me privately: > Now, you have claimed that you have been suffering from pr

Re: Does GSoC help develop communities?

2016-11-16 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 16 Nov 2016, Rich Bowen wrote: It would be great to have some kind of statistics on how GSoC helps projects longer term. Do students stick around? Does the code written actually get incorporated into releases? Does it in fact contribute to the mission of Community Development, or is it

Does GSoC help develop communities?

2016-11-16 Thread Rich Bowen
It would be great to have some kind of statistics on how GSoC helps projects longer term. Do students stick around? Does the code written actually get incorporated into releases? Does it in fact contribute to the mission of Community Development, or is it just a nice summer job for these students?