I can't see what this has to do with 'harassment' especially as it's being gently couched to sound like sexual harassment ("powerless to stop him from invading

I can't see what this has to do with 'harassment' especially as it's being gently couched to sound like sexual harassment ("powerless to stop him from invading my booth at the conference.", etc). I think the idea of these events is that everyone is volunteering their talent, and that includes the "project leader" and "their" idea. We hear enough on here about how ideas in themselves are all but worthless, so the result of the hackathon is really jointly owned by those participating, and I think the "volunteer guy" (and it seems that in her mind she could have just "hired" another objectified commodity-person, right?) has every right to be less than impressed at being summarily dismissed from a project he seems to have helped create.