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Some final thoughts on code of conducts before I hope to never have to talk about them again.
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1) if people have to know you to trust your CoC then it is not a good CoC. The CoC is really for people who /don't/ know you.
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2) examples of unacceptable behavior are necessary. Include "not limited to". But anything that makes people uncomfortable is too vague.
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A) because plausible deniability "I didn't know and I thought she would like it if I did that"
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B) because you know one way I make men uncomfortable sometimes? By pointing out their bad behavior. Needs to be clear what's actually wrong.
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I only speak at conferences with a CoC. We only include conferences with a CoC in techspeakdigest. We push this because it matters.
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Have my stories, more from friends. Want to see better representation of minorities at conferences but I want those experiences to be GOOD.
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Code of conduct doesn't guarantee that. But not having one is too big a red flag to ignore, IMO. I won't suggest anyone else does.