NixCon drops Palmer Luckey's AI combat drone maker Anduril as sponsor due to military ties On Monday, the organizers of NixCon, which celebrates the NixOS Linux distribution, welcomed Anduril Industries as a sponsor of the event. The following day, after that commercial deal was questioned in a NixOS discussion forum, the event organizers rejected Anduril's sponsorship, citing community concerns about accepting …
From the CoC: "... by encouraging participants to recognize and strengthen the relationships between our actions and their effects on our community."
1. Pedantic note: "between our actions" should be, "between their actions".
2. An action will have whatever effect it will have on a community; wishing really hard will not make that action have a stronger effect.
From the CoC: Harassment includes: ... harassing photography or recording ...
How does one distinguish harassing photography or recording from non-harassing photography or recording?
From the CoC: If you feel you have been falsely or unfairly accused of violating this Code of Conduct, you should notify one of the event organizers with a concise description of your grievance. Your grievance will be handled in accordance with our existing governing policies. The "existing governing policies" were not listed or linked-to in the CoC.
I see your pedantry and raise more:
"1. Pedantic note: "between our actions" should be, "between their actions"."
Not necessarily. As long as the person who wrote the document is also in the set of participants, then "our" is perfectly correct grammatically. I don't know where they got the text, but it's probably written by someone who is already part of their group in some way and does something more than writing generic terms, so the chances seem high that they are a participant.
"2. An action will have whatever effect it will have on a community; wishing really hard will not make that action have a stronger effect."
Correct, but the document doesn't say that the tools available for strengthening those relationships, as they say, only include "wishing really hard". Depending on what their actions are, that could have a much more threatening sound. That line could work pretty well for an evil group vowing to step up the plans for conquering the world.
"How does one distinguish harassing photography or recording from non-harassing photography or recording?"
People have to do it all the time in courts, in laws, and in response to some people who take the "stalking" joke* too near actual stalking.
* It seems popular to say, in a jocular manner, that looking up information about a person was stalking them. For most people, saying this means looking at their LinkedIn or other social media pages from a Google search. If it went further, it might be real stalking, or at least unnecessary behavior that a lot of people would find unsettling.
I'm not sure what the sudden aversion to the military is all about. Considering the original electronic computers were used, if not invented, for purely military purposes, military funding for IT is hardly unprecedented. This is all about appeasing a certain demographic that believes the military is evil.
""This is an outrageous example of censorship in open source software,""
You see, the "Freedom" you mob always champion works in both ways
You see, (usually right wing) people, don't get is that freedom also includes not accepting cash and choosing to work with, companies or people you disagree with.
This is not censorship, the same as if ComiCon decide to be sponsored by Smith & Weston, and all the cosplayers decide to boycott it.
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