Let's talk about social contracts.

[maradydd]

Skip this post if you're sick of hearing about Donglegate.

We'll start with a little history. You might have noticed, in the KYM synopsis, a reference to the PyCon Code of Conduct, a document largely derived from boilerplate language originally advanced, systematically, by the Ada Initiative in August 2012. The PyCon code asserts that "all

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[patrickat]

You're the first to hit on what I think has been bugging me about this thing. Why demand that a "code of conduct" be in place if you're not going to even give the organizers a chance to enforce it. Going to the online name-and-shame as path of first resort leaves the organizers looking stupid in dealing with the messy aftermath. Even with making revisions to their code of conduct, they have no way of preventing this from happening again.

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Meredith

[maradydd]

That's part of what frustrated me about the Ada Initiative from the very beginning: their ignorance of existing mechanisms for handling social problems, which Defcon (as a prank-heavy con) has a long history of developing. (And that history includes having to deal with all manner of, e.g., property damage, by way of context for other readers. A bit beyond what the average tech con has to deal with.) CCC does as well; the Angels are an ever-present, well-equipped and well-empowered corps analogous to the Goons. And both Defcon and CCC have been around an order of magnitude (or more) longer than the Ada Initiative. From the very beginning, they acted as if these organisations were a blank slate, which is a foolish, foolish tactical mistake. And also explains the complete tone-deafness

[uke]

Nice tags, baby.

[anaisdjuna]

In wildly divergent tangent news, this post is 18,040 characters which would have taken you 128.9 tweets.

[maradydd]

Probably more, since I try to break at word boundaries and things like that.

[anaisdjuna]

:-)

[maradydd]

Ohai! Welcome to what's left of the salon. Let's see who else chimes in.