I don't get it

Posted Dec 2, 2010 4:24 UTC (Thu) by james_w (guest, #51167)
In reply to: I don't get it by jackb
Parent article: The dark side of open source conferences

> and when people are determined to be a jerk they'll find a way to do it no matter what kind of rules you try to apply to prevent it.

True, but we can make it very difficult for them to do it at our conferences.

This isn't about stopping everyone in the world from being jerks, this is about keeping it out of our conferences, so that a minority don't spoil them for everyone else, and prevent us from getting more contributors.

One jerk can do a lot of damage, including stopping 10 or 100 people from contributing to a project or attending a conference.

James