Just to counterbalance all the negative commenting going on in this thread, I think that this is a great step forward. This is setting the bar for future confe

Just to counterbalance all the negative commenting going on in this thread, I think that this is a great step forward. This is setting the bar for future conferences in tech. As a community, we have a huge opportunity to bring in a new generation of people into our field. We will squander that opportunity if programmers and startup workers get stereotyped badly. To me, it's not about the details of the policy, it's the fact that the organizers care about the issue and are doing something to signal that much to their attendees. I have a hard time empathizing with anyone who claims that such a simple policy is a bad thing. I don't know anything about the posters of those sentiments and their backgrounds. In the end, we should treat people the way we want to be treated, and I don't want to be harassed. That's the end of the story for me.