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Add policy for vetting guest speakers

Open kburk1997 opened this issue 7 years ago • 1 comments

Description of Issue:

Currently, we are very lenient towards allowing guest speakers. There has been controversy in our community on whether or not to allow guest speakers from private companies to give talks on closed-source software.

Proposed Solution:

Document a simple vetting process for guest speakers. A draft policy is asking the following questions:

  • What is your talk about?
  • How is it related to open source / CS / design / engineering?
  • Do you agree to abide by the RCOS Community Code of Conduct in your talk?

kburk1997 avatar Nov 19 '18 14:11 kburk1997

Yeah, I think maybe having external speakers like provide their slides 24-48hrs in advance would be helpful as well to vet them.

vakrao avatar Nov 26 '18 04:11 vakrao