<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">In case anyone's curious -<div><br></div><div>Here's the Tim O'Reilly statement: <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/07/sexual-harassment-at-technical.html">http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/07/sexual-harassment-at-technical.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>... and here's the geekfeminism sample anti-harassment policy: <a href="http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassment/Policy">http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassment/Policy</a></div><div><br></div><div>I think our *local* community has been pretty good about avoid incidents like the one that prompted Martin Fowler's "SmutOnRails" post (<a href="http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SmutOnRails.html">http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SmutOnRails.html</a>), 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.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm also confident that the 'Manor presenters will all prepare content that is as tasteful as it is interesting.</div><div><br></div><div>- James</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 18 Sep 2011, at 19:41, Sam Livingston-Gray wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>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.<br><br>Sorry if this is already known and covered; I'm in GMT-7:00 and haven't paid much attention to your events. :)<br><br>--<br>(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.)<br><br>On Sep 18, 2011, at 10:53 AM, Jon Leighton <<a href="mailto:j@jonathanleighton.com">j@jonathanleighton.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Greetings LRUG,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">One of the things that I would love it if we could achieve with Ru3y<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Manor would be a conference that fosters diversity in our community.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">IMO it's not enough if at the end of the day we turn around to each<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">other and say "it's a shame only 1 woman turned up" or "sadly all the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">speakers were white guys".<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">So, I hope this doesn't sound overly lame or patronising, but if you are<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">someone who doesn't identify yourself as a straight white able-bodied<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">male, I would personally love it if you would submit a talk and/or come<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">along to the conference (the first batch of tickets go on sale<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">tomorrow).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">[And that's not to say that I don't want the rest of you to participate<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">as well!]<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Cheers,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Jon<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Chat mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Chat@lists.lrug.org">Chat@lists.lrug.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org">http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org</a><br></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>Chat mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Chat@lists.lrug.org">Chat@lists.lrug.org</a><br>http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>