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GNOME speaker policyGNOME speaker policyPosted Dec 2, 2010 5:27 UTC (Thu) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510)In reply to: GNOME speaker policy by eMBee Parent article: The dark side of open source conferences
It doesn't really define what offends, it just says to avoid topics that are likely to offend people. Which means just about anything, as far as I can tell. I keynoted the GNOME conference in Norway, around 2004, but that was back when it was OK to make a joke in my non-technical keynote. There was a basic assumption that the audience were grown ups. I had the confidence of the audience that anything I said was not meant to be a personal attack on them. Now, the social covenant with the audience is broken and my performance is taken to be a potential attack on them that has to be managed. No thanks.
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GNOME speaker policy Posted Dec 2, 2010 9:10 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
another thing to be aware of (and something companies are learning with their policies), having a policy and not strictly enforcing it (including to stupid 'zero tolerance' levels) is that you can get in legal trouble for not enforcing it, or for inconsistently enforcing it (you are accusing me of breaking this policy, but you didn't punish all these other people for doing the same thing, you are just using this as a excuse to punish me)
as a result, having a fuzzy policy can be a liability.
GNOME speaker policy Posted Dec 2, 2010 14:27 UTC (Thu) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]
Sure, you can interpret it that way. Or you can interpret it based on observations of reality, where the vast majority of presentations are made without upsetting anyone. Some of them even include jokes!
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