[CREATE] Harassment incident at Leipzig 2014

[ale rimoldi]

hi

thanks for addressing this.

it is a courageous but necessary step!

peace and love
a.l.e


> At the Libre Graphics Meeting in Leipzig a volunteer in a position of
> responsibility engaged in unacceptable behaviour which included
> physical assault and verbal bullying of a conference participant.
> There are witnesses to this incident and several others. Before this
> incident, the same volunteer made threatening statements in public
> and in private by e-mail, on IRC and in person.
> 
> In a meeting following the incident, the volunteer was told this
> behaviour was unacceptable. After being told this, the volunteer
> continued to make threatening statements about the participant and
> also to other members of the community.
> 
> The gravity of these incidents and the impact they have on the safety
> and well-being of other volunteers and event participants needs to be
> addressed. Though the LGM community and event do not currently have
> an explicit code of conduct in place, physical violence and threats
> of planned harm cannot and will not be tolerated. We have been
> notified that the volunteer in question continues to engage in
> harassing behaviour, and have thus decided to draw a line.
> 
> We have notified the aggressor that we do not want their
> participation in future Libre Graphics Meetings and the related
> communication channels.
> 
> We regret having to take this action due to the help given by this
> volunteer  at LGM. These aggressive actions however leave us no
> choice.