On 3 February 2011 02:07, Theodore Tso <tytso_at_mit.edu> wrote:
> People have complimented the Linux Foundation conference events as being
> much more professional and much more welcoming of women. I suspect at least
> part of it is because most of the people there don't go out on drunken bar crawls
> afterwards, and that's at least as important, if not more important than having an
> explicit anti-harassment policy. (To date, the LF events don't have such a thing,
> which proves you can have a good run of conferences without having an explicit
> policy in place.)
FWIW, it seems according to
<
http://geekfeminism.org/2010/12/16/friendly-conference-update/> LF
have now adopted an anti-harassment policy.
--Philip;
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