This is a talk and slides from Narrascope 2022, held online in July 2022. It completes a trilogy I also spoke at Narrascope I and Narrascope II. I’m grateful to the IFTF, and particularly to Judith Pintar and Andrew Plotkin, for arranging the opportunity.
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Discriminatory or harassing conduct will not be tolerated
Richard Speed Fri 7 May 2021 // 08:30 UTC Share
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A permaban from Perl events over unacceptable behaviour has been reduced to a year for the developer concerned, named by several separate Perl sources as Matt Trout.
The first iteration of a Transparency Report by the computer language s Community Affairs Team (CAT) was published a week after the Perl Core developer known as Sawyer X announced his intention to leave the Perl Steering Council over alleged community hostility toward him.
The report dealt with poor community conduct in general and also went into some detail (although the language is very unclear) on two investigations into what the CAT described as potentially unacceptable behavior over IRC and Twitter and an incident at a 2019 Perl event.
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