Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

2012-01-22 Thread Kim Bruning
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 05:54:34PM -0500, MZMcBride wrote: > Steven Walling wrote: > > If a policy makes good sense, we clearly need it, and feedback about the > > text is mostly positive, then we should adopt it. Rejecting a good idea > > because of process wonkery is stupid. > > Really? Does thi

Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

2012-01-22 Thread Tobias
On 01/21/2012 11:13 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy "[…] regardless of […] preferred Creative Commons license […]" I use the GNU General Public License v3 / GNU Free Documentation License v1.3, as commanded by Saint IGNUcius, you insensitive clod!

Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

2012-01-22 Thread David Gerard
On 21 January 2012 22:57, MZMcBride wrote: > David, I'm a bit surprised that you think a policy that includes the > language "Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference > venue or talks." is a good idea. I think it'd be difficult to have a > discussion about Wikimedia Commo

Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

2012-01-21 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Mr. Gregory Varnum, 22/01/2012 00:33: MZMcBride - I guess I'm unclear what the purpose of this thread is. Just a FYI or are you asking for something specific to be done? I'm not sure how you got confused about its scope given the listserv you forwarded this from which outlined all this in grea

Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

2012-01-21 Thread Mr. Gregory Varnum
I fully supported this policy's development and feel volunteers impacted by it were directly involved in its authoring. Should the intro be modified to make it clearer this is for tech conferences? Although I personally didn't find that confusing. MZMcBride - I guess I'm unclear what the purpos

Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

2012-01-21 Thread Samuel Klein
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 5:32 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Sumana Harihareswara wrote: >> Thanks to all of you for your feedback on this.  We've now finalized the >> policy and it now lives at >> >> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy Thank you for working on this, Sumana. > I do

Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

2012-01-21 Thread Ryan Kaldari
1]On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 2:57 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > > David, I'm a bit surprised that you think a policy that includes the > language "Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference > venue or talks." is a good idea. I think it'd be difficult to have a > discussion about Wiki

Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

2012-01-21 Thread Erik Moeller
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 2:57 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > I think it'd be difficult to have a > discussion about Wikimedia Commons with a rule like this. Right now, the policy is pretty much framed around technical events like hackathons, because that was what motivated its creation. In that context, e

Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

2012-01-21 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
MZMcBride, 21/01/2012 23:32: Sumana Harihareswara wrote: Thanks to all of you for your feedback on this. We've now finalized the policy and it now lives at https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy I don't think the Volunteer Development Coordinator (or any Wikimedia Foundat

Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

2012-01-21 Thread MZMcBride
David Gerard wrote: > On 21 January 2012 22:50, Steven Walling wrote: > >> If a policy makes good sense, we clearly need it, and feedback about the >> text is mostly positive, then we should adopt it. Rejecting a good idea >> because of process wonkery is stupid. > > +1 David, I'm a bit surpris

Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

2012-01-21 Thread MZMcBride
Steven Walling wrote: > If a policy makes good sense, we clearly need it, and feedback about the > text is mostly positive, then we should adopt it. Rejecting a good idea > because of process wonkery is stupid. Really? Does this apply to discussions on any Wikimedia wiki at any time with any group

Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

2012-01-21 Thread David Gerard
On 21 January 2012 22:50, Steven Walling wrote: > If a policy makes good sense, we clearly need it, and feedback about the > text is mostly positive, then we should adopt it. Rejecting a good idea > because of process wonkery is stupid. +1 - d. ___

Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

2012-01-21 Thread Steven Walling
On Jan 21, 2012 2:33 PM, "MZMcBride" wrote: > > Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > > Thanks to all of you for your feedback on this. We've now finalized the > > policy and it now lives at > > > > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy > > I don't think the Volunteer Development Coo

Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

2012-01-21 Thread MZMcBride
Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > Thanks to all of you for your feedback on this. We've now finalized the > policy and it now lives at > > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy I don't think the Volunteer Development Coordinator (or any Wikimedia Foundation employee) has the pow

[Foundation-l] FW: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

2012-01-21 Thread MZMcBride
A new policy should always be announced on foundation-l; forwarding. MZMcBride -- Forwarded Message From: Sumana Harihareswara Organization: Wikimedia Foundation Reply-To: Wikimedia developers Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:30:07 -0800 To: Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] proposed