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The dark side of open source conferencesThe dark side of open source conferencesPosted Dec 1, 2010 21:06 UTC (Wed) by ewen (subscriber, #4772)Parent article: The dark side of open source conferences
For the record, a couple of people were ejected from the conference mentioned by "Anonymous" as a result of some combination of the behaviour described and other behaviour. Which, at the time and now, I think was the right decision on the part of the conference organisers. (Unfortunately it's not the only incident that I'm aware of at that conference that year. And I don't know if anything else happened in the other situation I'm aware of; it's not my story to tell, and I don't know the full detail.)
As someone else already said in the comments it's sad that it's still necessary to be having this discussion. But it's clearly still necessary, because it keeps happening. Thanks for writing about it.
Ewen
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The dark side of open source conferences Posted Dec 2, 2010 12:59 UTC (Thu) by willy (subscriber, #9762) [Link]
At the time, I felt it was a bit harsh because the reason given by the organisers was that the offenders were making off-colour jokes about Hans Reiser. Now that I'm aware of the _nature_ of those jokes, it makes perfect sense, and I would have done the same thing. Because really, that's not a joke about Hans Reiser, that's intimidation.
(I can believe it was unintentional intimidation, but that's insufficiently mitigating to change my opinion -- the organisers did the Right Thing).
The dark side of open source conferences Posted Dec 2, 2010 18:53 UTC (Thu) by ewen (subscriber, #4772) [Link]
It's been sufficiently long, and I've heard bits of the story from sufficiently many other sources, that I can't be certain I remember precisely what was announced by the organisers and what I learnt later. But I do remember that the organisers gave more of a reason than just "off colour jokes", although obviously not that much more detail since they didn't want to air all of it in public. My reaction at the time was surprise that someone was being ejected from the conference, but recognition in light of what they said happened that it was the right thing to do.
As you say I suspect those involved were perhaps unaware of just how inappropriate they were being at the time. But that's part of the problem, rather than something that should excuse it.
Ewen
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