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Incident response resources
Frame Shift Consulting conference incident response guide and workshop slides
Video from the "Enforcing Your Code of Conduct: Effective Incident Response talk by Audrey Eschright
Example of an incident response report to an incident of inappropriate images being used in slides at Wikimania
Resource collections
Code of conduct resources on the Geek Feminism wiki
CoC advocacy articles
Harassment isn't an interpersonal issue, it's a health and safety issue blog post by Stephanie Zvan
Legal
An article with some thoughts from lawyers
- Benjamin: Only legal argument seems to be liability. For Germany my (non-expert) opinion is that a CoC is part of a trade agreement. This is actually problematic for a number of reasons:
- A trade agreement generally becomes void if one part of it is void.
- It is more likely to increase liability instead of decreasing it. Liability is generally a low concern in Germany as damages are predictable and court costs are regulated. However, I don't see any way to be liable as an organiser for an incident that happens between two attendees (i.e. no civil lawsuit is possible, only criminal if the organisers choose not to help someone who was a victim of a criminal offence)
- Benjamin: Only legal argument seems to be liability. For Germany my (non-expert) opinion is that a CoC is part of a trade agreement. This is actually problematic for a number of reasons:
Other/Unsorted
Deciding if or when a harasser may return to an event blog post by Stephanie Zvan
spiked: How I became a feminist victim -- takeaway: be careful not to amplify issues by victimizing people
Meg: I object to the inclusion of this article as a resource because (1) It does not relate to CoCs; and (2) because it was published by an online journal that apologizes for sexism (as seen in this article) as well as violence such as racially motivated killing (http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/34, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Stephen_Lawrence).
- Ben: Please elaborate.
- It may be possible to not need such evidence as long as certain keywords from certain "feminist" camps are not mentioned in the debate (I am pretty sure that these will fall soon enough). However, I do think the idea portrayed in the article is relevant when choosing language.
This sounds like Bulverism to me, i.e. you are circular reasoning ("apology for sexism" -> article is wrong -> "apology for sexism") and also use a genetic fallacy.
But lets suppose point 2 was valid in general. I don't see any "apology for sexism" or even for "racial motivated killing" in either of the two articles. The first article describes possible unwanted side effects that certain language/ideology might have. The second argues that unwitting racism in schools is an education/parenting issue and not one for criminal law enforcement. On that note, the reference to the "Stephen Lawrence" report seems to be completely on the point and accurate.
- Ben: Please elaborate.
Quim Gil's email regarding the Wikimedia Technical code of conduct makes some interesting points
Examples
Example of a physical note about a Code of Conduct at PyCon Australia