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I would tend to see the self-interest on the part of the conference organizers in what Schwern is describing: Better to solve a problem before the conference t
by pasbesoin 13y ago
I would tend to see the self-interest on the part of the conference organizers in what Schwern is describing: Better to solve a problem before the conference than at the conference.
I remember YAPC 2001 so fondly in good part because the community there was so kind and good natured, in addition to all the clever stuff. YAPC at that time was significantly a "bake it yourself" conference, and people pulled together to make it the best they could.
TIMTOWTDI. IMO, the way to keep the community going is to embrace this rather than to separate into partisanship and/or class. I'm long separated from the community and so don't know the details. I guess I'm a bit sad that a) A Code of Conduct is needed, these days, and b) An apparent demonstration of that need is not being addressed.
- Mithaldu 13y agoHonestly, the conferences are still 99.75% awesome. The CoC was called for because people wish to get the 0.25% under control too and there is a lot of prior art in other hacker communities.
- mst 13y agoActually, it was entirely addressed at the time, at least in so far as the people who complained to the senior opers were concerned. This is one person who's out of touch with the community ignoring the main escalation path, bothering a bunch of unrelated people, and then writing an angry blog post because the unrelated people didn't do anything about a problem that had already been dealt with. It happens; I wouldn't worry too much about it.