Who made the law?

[Pedro Figueiredo]

On 31 Aug 2012, at 11:54, Mark Fowler wrote:

> Q. Do people really need to be told this?
> 
> The vast majority of people don't.  However, the two groups of people that do are:
> 
> a) People who are worried that they might be victims of harassment.  They need to be reassured - especially when they've only just joined the community and haven't had time to completely integrate and have full knowledge of it - that harassment won't be tolerated and they need to know the procedure to follow if they do have any problem.

Exactly. As for b) I don't have any sympathy for people who are kicked out and then go "oooh, no one told me about the rules" - there shouldn't be any rules telling you how to be a decent person, jerk. Note I have no idea about what happened yesterday on IRC, and that's not what I'm going on about here.

>From a non-ex-leader and mostly lurker, I think Mark's proposed Code of Conduct is excellent.

See also

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassment
https://adainitiative.org/2012/08/defcon-why-conference-harassment-matters/

Cheers,

Pedro