[diversity] Code of Conduct

To chime in on this specific example,


> On 22 Oct 2019, at 0:04, Sascha Luck [ml] <lists-ripe at c4inet.net> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> - In another conference, a friend had an unpleasant experience with a drunk attendee. I had an hour long conversation with the organiser about how everything about their conference setup was inducing excessive alcohol use, which is a huge trigger for CoC issues, and how they could still improve on that the next day. They did nothing to improve, and the second day had one drunk attendee trying to set someone else on fire (they seemed to know each other and see it as a joke?). I decided that given their previous lack of action, there was no point to reporting, so I left and never returned.
> 
> TL;DR: You tried to prevent (presumably adult) conf attendeees
> from getting drunk but weren't (quite sensibly) listened to.
> Then you considered reporting a couple of drunk people arsing
> around that had nothing to do with you and oboviously decided not
> to make some big thing about.

I observed behaviour on the Monday evening social that could have been potentially threatening to the venue staff itself:

One attendee thought it was taking too long to get his beer (all 3-so venue staff where busy pouring drinks for several hundred people), and decide to reach over the bar and operate the tap for at least himself. I asked him if he could just wait for his turn and let the staff venue serve his beer.

Afterwards I talked with one of the waiters and luckily he wasn’t too much fuzzed by the incident, but talking with some people later this week I realised two things:

* This could have gone out of hand, with more drunk people following the bad example and venue staff feeling threatened.
* CoC is beyond meeting attendees and meeting staff, it is also applicable to venue staff participating in the meeting and socials. We should inform participating venue staff when the CoC is in place


Best regards,
    Ruben

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