Tag: PHPledge
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An event organizer’s duty of care: from Codes of Conduct to Health and Safety policies
If you’ve been organizing events in tech over the last couple of decades, you’ve seen significant improvement in the way organizers think about inclusion. There was the #CoCPledge movement that made it mainstream for our events to have Codes of Conduct (CoC), and increasingly we see events offering childcare, providing financial aid, and incorporating live…
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There’s no going back, let’s adapt to our pandemic present and future
COVID is still ripping through the populace, growing increasingly transmissible, each infection degrading the immune system, making each successive infection more likely to leave us disabled and leaving us more vulnerable to other diseases. A full 20% of infections, regardless of severity, have consequences that never fully go away. And vaccines aren’t a magic bullet.…