[Events] Advice on awkward situations for women-and-their-friends events

[Asheesh Laroia]

Hi all,

I've had the honor of helping Sheila Miguez a bunch lately with the 
Chicago Python Workshop, which included helping draft text they used to 
ask an attendee to not come back (which was a situation that, upon my 
careful consideration, I believe they took the right action. The person 
did immediately apologize and indicate he was in the wrong).

Anyway, I took some time to write up some advice for "women and their 
friends" events that covers various awkward or touchy communications one 
may send. Examples, from most positive to most negative:

* Making sure trans women are clearly and respectfully welcomed

* Writing a code of conduct

* Asking someone to leave the group

I happen to really enjoy the challenging task of writing text that is 
suitably clear, firm, and friendly, so it's a pleasure to help with these 
sorts of things.

It's a draft, and if I have made some mistakes that would be bad news to 
become real recommendations, then I'd love feedback. Or if there are other 
topics worth covering, I'd be happy to hear that too.

https://openhatch.org/wiki/Women_and_their_friends is the page!

I'm also encouraging Sheila to write a blog post pointing to the note, for 
the OpenHatch blog, so maybe as soon as tomorrow it will get some more 
public attention. For now, basically no one has seen it yet, so you all 
are among the first!

If anyone feels the need to reply to me personally, off the archived list, 
with their feedback, I would welcome that too and respect your privacy.

-- Asheesh.