[Python-cuba] Working Group Report for June 2015

[David Mertz]

Happily, /dev/null already exists on POSIX systems as a good place to send
trollish personal attacks.
On Jul 10, 2015 8:19 AM, "kirby urner" <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I should have thought it worthy of note that June saw a correspondence
>> that culminated in the ejection of a member from the list. This is
>> particularly important because the person in question had suggested that
>> she would be taking up her complaint elsewhere. If that's going to happen I
>> think the Board should be appraised of it.
>>
>> But what do other members think?
>>
>> regards
>>  Steve
>>
>>
>
> I was thinking since that happened right at the end of June we might defer
> mention until the July report by when we'll have more hindsight if there
> were further developments we needed to work through.  Deputy moderator
> Mertz talked about "vetting" and that seems to be a relevant takeaway.
>
> For example, Mertz and I had been talking Cuba since April 1 pretty
> steadily off and on, so he was already clear about my interest, so I was
> invited on at the inception.   However the "by invitation" aspect of our
> charter is maybe what to stress i.e. yes, the archive is public but folks
> who subscribe with a majorly disruptive agenda do face moderator push back
> and even ejection.
>
> This is not a unique circumstance in Python.org i.e. I speak from
> experience as one moderators have sometimes pushed back against e.g.
> psf-volunteers when I encouraged board candidates to use it for its
> public-facing archive.
>
> My question would be:  where might X (any X) ejected from group Y (any Y)
> within Python.org find another listserv where rants / speeches / points of
> view could be shared in greater volume and for public consumption.  I'd
> suggested Diversity but that's a closed list, like psf-members.
>
> I'd almost think a psf-rants or psf-dissent  or just pet-peeve at python.org
> might make sense, with the psf- indicating that PSF has authorized the
> existence of said channel, even if it does not necessarily endorse or
> express itself through any of the postings.  diversity-sig maybe?  That one
> already exists but has a forbidding front end and everyone is afraid to use
> it for anything, so scratch that.
>
> Kirby
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