[hackerspaces] Improve hackerspace diversity - Donate to Ada Initiative

[Randall Arnold]

But instead of getting the talk killed outright, doesn't approaching the speaker
openly and honestly to request she preface the talk with reasonable disclaimers
make much more sense?

I have no dog in this one so I'm being fairly objective I think when I submit
that Violet was mistreated here.  Fear over a provocative talk title followed by
knee-jerking political correctness was not at all the answer.

Randy

> On September 23, 2014 at 4:13 PM Kristin-Leigh Brezinski
> <okrysmastree at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     What was annoying about the Defcon penalty cards? I saw them as a clever
> way to bring attention to conference harassment issues and give people a
> low-stakes, humorous way to flag bad behavior.
> 
>     Re: Violet Blue, I think the whole thing got blown out of proportion, but
> really, who thought a talk titled "sex +/- drugs: known vulns and exploits"
> wouldn't raise red flags to a lot of women(/people in general)? Anyone who
> considers themselves enough of a wordsmith to play on puns like that should be
> open to criticism of the double-meanings in the terms they're invoking.
> 
>     AI isn't the only organization working on this stuff, but I very much
> appreciate any organization striving to make solid anti-harassment policies
> and codes of conduct a default at professional conferences, fan conventions,
> and hacker/makerspaces. Thanks for the post, Liz - I'll definitely keep this
> in mind when I evaluate the flexibility of my budgets end of month. :)
> 
>     - Kristin-Leigh
> 
>     On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 1:08 PM, matt < matt at nycresistor.com
> <mailto:matt at nycresistor.com> > wrote:
> 
>         > >         Ada has been a pretty toxic member of the infosec
>         > > community. Their stupid harassment cards at defcon were annoying,
>         > > but the violet blue incident is but one of several incidents of
>         > > manufacturing drama for PR. that sort of behavior is unacceptable
>         > > in our community. And as you said... ada is a small org. 2 people.
>         > > so i don't see the culture of ada ever changing. I'd rather people
>         > > invested in the gnome outreach program for women.
> > 
> >         https://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen
> > 
> >         -matt
> > 
> >         On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Al Billings < albill at openbuddha.com
> > <mailto:albill at openbuddha.com> > wrote:
> > 
> >             > > >             Yes, the real problem that people care about
> >             > > > is that Valerie hates Violet Blue and it isn’t that
> >             > > > Valerie, using her role in AI, got a sex-positive talk by
> >             > > > a woman cancelled at a conference because she didn’t like
> >             > > > it. Since she still runs AI and clearly nothing has
> >             > > > changed, I’m not sure why you’re surprised that people
> >             > > > have a negative reaction.
> > > 
> > > 
> > >             On Sep 23, 2014, at 12:44 PM, Liz Henry < lizhenry at gmail.com
> > > <mailto:lizhenry at gmail.com> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > >                 > > > >                 Ada Initiative: A small non profit
> > >                 > > > > run by two people who once pissed off Violet Blue.
> > > > 
> > > >             > > > 
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