Tristan, Regarding some of your tweets yesterday, specifically: https://twitter.com/tristangoode/status/590524567333965825 and not forgetting another recent incident including: https://twitter.com/tristangoode/status/567055657124106240 If anyone in our community told a new sponsor to fuck off and used words like "lazy, gutless, and racist" to describe board members, I'd feel like we should address that head on. Much has been written about how dealing with poisonous people is an important test for any community. For a board member to be acting this way is completely unacceptable. While no doubt speaking in a personal capacity here, your behavior reflects badly on the gold members you represent, the board, the foundation, and the community generally. Furthermore, you've recently sought to champion the cause of diversity in our community. The most fundamental thing any community can do to increase diversity is to make the community a safe, friendly, and welcoming place for everyone. Your behavior is destructive to the cause you claim to care deeply about. I hope you take a step back and reflect on this, and I hope you apologize. Mark.
Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com<mailto:markmc@redhat.com>> wrote: If anyone in our community told a new sponsor to fuck off and used words like "lazy, gutless, and racist" to describe board members, I'd feel like we should address that head on. Much has been written about how dealing with poisonous people is an important test for any community. For a board member to be acting this way is completely unacceptable. While no doubt speaking in a personal capacity here, your behavior reflects badly on the gold members you represent, the board, the foundation, and the community generally. _______________ +1000. This sort of behavior is toxic and absolutely unacceptable under any circumstances. I don't care if you disagree with Citrix rejoining the foundation. Stated more generally, if a person is not following the Openstack code of conduct, including the parts that apply to online communication, that person should not be representing the community. - Van
On 04/22/2015 04:33 PM, Van Lindberg wrote:
Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com<mailto:markmc@redhat.com>> wrote:
If anyone in our community told a new sponsor to fuck off and used words like "lazy, gutless, and racist" to describe board members, I'd feel like we should address that head on. Much has been written about how dealing with poisonous people is an important test for any community.
For a board member to be acting this way is completely unacceptable. While no doubt speaking in a personal capacity here, your behavior reflects badly on the gold members you represent, the board, the foundation, and the community generally. _______________
+1000. This sort of behavior is toxic and absolutely unacceptable under any circumstances. I don't care if you disagree with Citrix rejoining the foundation.
Stated more generally, if a person is not following the Openstack code of conduct, including the parts that apply to online communication, that person should not be representing the community.
+1000 Not ok.
Thanks Mark for reminding us that while we all may enjoy an often robust debate on technical issues, civility and respect is a fundamental element of a safe and welcoming community working together across our industry. -Lew On 4/22/15, 1:16 PM, "Mark McLoughlin" <markmc@redhat.com> wrote:
Tristan,
Regarding some of your tweets yesterday, specifically:
https://twitter.com/tristangoode/status/590524567333965825
and not forgetting another recent incident including:
https://twitter.com/tristangoode/status/567055657124106240
If anyone in our community told a new sponsor to fuck off and used words like "lazy, gutless, and racist" to describe board members, I'd feel like we should address that head on. Much has been written about how dealing with poisonous people is an important test for any community.
For a board member to be acting this way is completely unacceptable. While no doubt speaking in a personal capacity here, your behavior reflects badly on the gold members you represent, the board, the foundation, and the community generally.
Furthermore, you've recently sought to champion the cause of diversity in our community. The most fundamental thing any community can do to increase diversity is to make the community a safe, friendly, and welcoming place for everyone. Your behavior is destructive to the cause you claim to care deeply about.
I hope you take a step back and reflect on this, and I hope you apologize.
Mark.
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Lew Tucker (letucker)
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Monty Taylor
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Van Lindberg