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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 23, 2024
[Article 3 years old]
Reprinted with permission from disguised.work.
On 8 March 2020, International Women's Day, somebody forged Mark Shuttleworth's email address to distribute or leak the email below.
The Debian Project Leader, Sam Hartman, accused another volunteer of distributing it. Eleven months have passed. Nobody ever gave any proof about the source of this message. Sam Hartman lied. He whipped up a mob much like Donald Trump at the US Capitol siege.
There is so much fake news on the Internet today. Why was Sam Hartman, leader of Debian, so enraged when somebody leaked the concerns about unethical romantic relationships in GSoC and Outreachy mentoring? Where there's smoke, there's fire. That's why.
Rogue elements of Debian take the approach that this is a hobby and they can do what they want. If we care about diversity that is not good enough.
Is the email below sexist itself? Or does this email simply expose the sexism and misogyny that Debian doesn't want the world to know about? █
> behave yourselves!
> brazilians!
> please don't name the girl
> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: debconf19 diversity girls Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 08:31:50 +0000 (UTC) From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> To: debian-private@lists.debian.org <debian-private@lists.debian.org>
> Debian is not an employer and when we gather at DebConf we are not under any centralized control. Some of us are paid to be there by our employers and some of us choose to come as volunteers. Nobody works 24 hours per day for 10 days at DebConf and when people are not working there is no reason they can't engage in any romances. Our diversity programs have become overwhelmingly popular and at every event now we have young women coming on diversity bursaries. Some of these women are participants in the current round of GSoC or Outreachy and some of these women want to join the next round.
> So many of these diversity bursarie girls are having a connection with internships. Almost all the others have no jobs, they are looking for jobs and they are under pressure to please people.
> Debian has never said anything to ban romances with these women. We already assumed the mentors would not get romantic with the interns in the current round. But it needs to be really clear that no Debian Developer should become intimate with any woman in the current round or any woman who is preparing to apply for subsequent rounds of GSoC and Outreachy.
> A problem has been discussed at DebConf19 and it was seen too at DebConf18. The boy involved is a member of the Debian mentors team so this is one case where it is definitely off-limits. The relationship did not involve a woman he mentors personally but it was also very clear to the mentor that this woman had an interest in the program, there is no way he could have been unaware of that.
> He is also a Canonical/Ubuntu employee. We believed he comes to DebConf as an employee, he is not a Debian employee of course, so there was discussion with Canonical.
> Canonical said they would resolve the issue as an internal company issue. Some other people became concerned because Canonical is a DebConf sponsor and maybe I'm being too lenient on their employee. If other Canonical management were not at DebConf, how would we handle this issue with any other volunteer from a different company?
> The woman and the other people who share her room don't want to comment on the issue. We thought this was a dead end.
> There is nothing more going to happen here but please now remember if you are a Debian Developer, even if you are not a mentor, if you meet somebody at an event who indicates any interest in our mentoring programs within the next year, you need to maintain a professional relationship with this person.
> You can also withdraw from Debian, then you are free to purse any relationship of course. This is not only for mentors, it has to be for all of us.
> --Sam
> Debian, Outreachy, DebConf, student, intern, female, woman
> Sam Hartman, Debian
> Debian Outreachy intern diversity girls unethical
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