Debugging conference anti-harassment policies [LWN.net]

Debugging conference anti-harassment policies

Posted Feb 7, 2011 19:58 UTC (Mon) by dneary (subscriber, #55185)
In reply to: Debugging conference anti-harassment policies by BrucePerens
Parent article: Debugging conference anti-harassment policies

Hi,

> it's no surprise that the most controversial speaker in our industry is
> the one whose message was entirely swamped by reaction to a well-meant
> joke about "emacs virginity" by the folks who have since imposed party
> rules.

That's exactly the point. He made plenty of people unconfortable that day with his history lesson on the origins of GNOME and the reasons why we should avoid depending on Mono. What do people remember? The well, meant but ill-phrased emacs virginity joke.

Cheers,
Dave

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Debugging conference anti-harassment policies

Posted Feb 7, 2011 20:40 UTC (Mon) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510) [Link]

I think that walking out of the hall, many more people remembered what he had to say about mono.

The fact that people now remember the emacs joke is a result of subsequent beating of political drums about it, IMO way over the top and I still believe that one of the parties beating drums used the women's issue to promote his own agenda.