An overly thorough, emotional rollercoastery, exceedingly “Andy”, and genuinely amazing insiders view from one of the co-chairs of RailsConf 2024 in Detroit a few weeks ago.
The first paragraph I don’t care for whatsoever, but the rest is very good.
Also I want to highlight for conference organizers something which is Very Important:
Andy not just mentioned the code of conduct on stage in his opening, but went over it in detail and why it was important, especially if you don’t think it affects you. It was maybe 5 minutes on stage.
After, I was near Andy (a lot) and I saw it happen repeatedly: marginalized people came up to him and personally thanked him for saying something. It was 💔.
I also performed my regular (Brighton Ruby) explanation of why codes of conduct are a thing and breaking down behaviour that's fine and what is not. As always a significant handful of people, some often quite emotional, sidled up to me in the days following and thanked me specifically for that. Which is why I keep doing it.
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