An inside look at being a woman in open source

“A few weeks ago, I blogged about how widespread sexual
harassment at open source conferences is and suggested that open
source conference organizers should adopt an official policy taking
a stand against all forms of harassment at their conferences. Easy,
right?

“It turns out that writing a practical and useful
anti-harassment policy is a lot of hard work. I know because I
spent the last three weeks writing one in collaboration with Esther
Filderman, Beth Lynn Eicher, Mary Gardiner, Sarah Smith, Donna
Benjamin, and many others. Our goal was to create a policy that
could be easily customized and adapted to any open source,
computing, or technology conference, and to collect useful
resources for people considering adopting a policy. After long
discussion with the organizers of many conferences and beta testing
it with the generous help of OSDC, we made the first official
public release of the policy on Tuesday.”

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