[hackerspaces] Safe Space Policies?

[Brendan Halliday]

Thank you to everyone who has contributed constructively to this thread to
provide your experiences with Safe Space Policies. Especially those who
gave helpful suggestions on how to make sure the culture of the space
matches its goals closely. (Mine is founded on a base of equality under the
hackerspace's roof, and a Safe Space Policy helps to demonstrate and
enforce that. Yours may not be so YMMV. :))

Just for future context, only one member out of the 20 at the meeting voted
against it and that's because he was upset that the group wouldn't let him
read the policy then and there - we expect people to read and understand
agenda items before the meeting and provide digital versions a week
beforehand and printouts on the day.

It's interesting also to notice the amount of white (I'm going to assume
cis male) men on this mailing list dictating there is not a problem with a
'hackerspaces' culture, when there's many examples of how many problems
there are with very closely related events and groups regularily in the
news and on this mailing list. (I hate to pick on Noisebridge but they're a
very prime example.)

Again, thank you to the constructive, helpful repliers. I hope the rest can
eventually hack their attitude to be the former!


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:23 AM, Cecilia Tanaka <cecilia.tanaka at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Michel,
>
> I hear that. And I understand.
> I just don't care.
>
> Hugs from Brazil!
>
> (Sorry, I am too far to participate in your hackerspace, Mark! :-)
>
> Ceci
> On Jan 27, 2014 4:07 PM, "Michel Gallant" <sfxman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You hear that, women? You can participate, but you have to do what this
>> man says first.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 1:06 AM, Mark Janssen <dreamingforward at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Okay foo(l)s.  Here's the thing.  The hackerspace meme and world has
>>> not "matured" sufficiently to be handling ideologies.  Everyone just
>>> back the f*k off, so that these good people can get things done and
>>> end the banter that they don't have the means to control.
>>>
>>> I strongly suggest, no more questions regarding policy-making,
>>> policies, governance, funding, and such until the meme comes back
>>> together.  Women you're more than welcome to participate, please just
>>> come over here first.
>>>
>>> markj
>>> _______________________________________________
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>>> Discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org
>>> http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>>>
>>
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