[LRUG] Ru3y Manor diversity

[James Adam]

In case anyone's curious -

Here's the Tim O'Reilly statement: http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/07/sexual-harassment-at-technical.html

... and here's the geekfeminism sample anti-harassment policy: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassment/Policy

I think our *local* community has been pretty good about avoid incidents like the one that prompted Martin Fowler's "SmutOnRails" post (http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SmutOnRails.html), but hopefully it goes without saying that we all want Ru3y Manor, LRUG and our whole community to be a welcoming, inclusive and friendly group. I'd also be interested to hear from anyone who feels they have a perspective about this.

I'm also confident that the 'Manor presenters will all prepare content that is as tasteful as it is interesting.

- James


On 18 Sep 2011, at 19:41, Sam Livingston-Gray wrote:

> Have you already adopted and published an anti-harassment policy? Tim O'Reilly finally got on board right /after/ OSCON (better late than never), but there should be plenty of search results for stuff to grab; IIRC, there's a good one on the geekfeminism wiki.
> 
> Sorry if this is already known and covered; I'm in GMT-7:00 and haven't paid much attention to your events. :)
> 
> --
> (Sent from a mobile device with a tiny onscreen keyboard.  As such, my email may be more terse than you've come to expect from me.)
> 
> On Sep 18, 2011, at 10:53 AM, Jon Leighton <j at jonathanleighton.com> wrote:
> 
>> Greetings LRUG,
>> 
>> One of the things that I would love it if we could achieve with Ru3y
>> Manor would be a conference that fosters diversity in our community.
>> 
>> IMO it's not enough if at the end of the day we turn around to each
>> other and say "it's a shame only 1 woman turned up" or "sadly all the
>> speakers were white guys".
>> 
>> So, I hope this doesn't sound overly lame or patronising, but if you are
>> someone who doesn't identify yourself as a straight white able-bodied
>> male, I would personally love it if you would submit a talk and/or come
>> along to the conference (the first batch of tickets go on sale
>> tomorrow).
>> 
>> [And that's not to say that I don't want the rest of you to participate
>> as well!]
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Jon
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