Most events in tech involve alcohol at a social event. Although it can be a social lubricant, it’s also a catalyst for bad behaviour, Code of Conduct violations, harm, and exclusion. How do you build a better alcohol culture at your event? — Content warning: this article talks about excessive alcohol consumption and subsequent harassment, assault, addiction and similar concepts — though without great detail on individual occurrences.

Being an experienced conference speaker, I’ve found that talks about communities work much better in single-track than multi-track events. Why is that? — The talks I currently submit to conferences are about happiness, well-being, empathy, Code of Conduct, and cryptography. I’ve done these talks at both single-track and multi-track conferences, and find that in many events, except for the cryptography talk, my talks just don’t do that well at multi-track conferences. They have…

A CoC is ineffective unless the organisers handle reports well. For DjangoCon Europe this year, we adopted a public response guide to help us. — I already wrote about how we restructured our Code of Conduct this year. Especially in the stressful and fast environment of a conference, it’s also important to be able to respond to incidents in a professional way, and reduce the risk of mistakes. …

Community event organisers are held to an increasingly high standard, with good reason. But how far can we stretch our volunteers — and where does it lead us? On why I’m withdrawing from major unpaid conference organising. — Recently yet another conference showed up in my twitter feed that had an all-male lineup: All-male lineups are becoming less common, but there are many other diversity & inclusivity that are still widespread. There are conferences that don’t have a Code of Conduct, are unable or unwilling to act…

For DjangoCon Europe 2018, we restructured our Code of Conduct in order to better reflect our intentions and values. — For quite some time, DjangoCon Europe, along with many other conferences have used a similar Code of Conduct. Originally based on the example from Geek Feminism Wiki and earlier versions from PyCon US, this almost identical text is used very widely. …