[Noisebridge-discuss] asked Matthew P. to leave

[Ronald Cotoni]

I was there last Saturday (not yesterday) with him.  I was working with
Greg on some Linux stuff.  He was randomly laughing at things and didn't
generally seem too with it.  He made me feel a bit uncomfortable but he was
talking about programming in C# which is great I guess.  But this is
totally 100% out of line.  Some of the phrases he was using and his mindset
didn't seem too conducive to what we are trying to do at Noisebridge.  I do
not think he should be allowed back in the space.  I also agree with
Alexandra, we need a picture of him and not just a description.  If you
need someone to verify if it is indeed him, email me.  I will see if I can
swing by the space ASAP and identify him so we can deal with this
appropriately.


On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 11:52 PM, Matt Thrailkill <matt at thrailkill.org>wrote:

> From this description (the erratic conversation and looking up the skirt),
> I would keep away from this guy and try to avoid interacting with him if I
> saw this in the space. If I ran into people like this more often than not
> at the space, I would come less often in general.
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Hannah Grimm <dharlette at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hey folks,
>> I've submitted a pull request to our github to ban Michael P.
>>
>> If anyone else (particularly the women of NB) want to chime in with a few
>> words about how they feel about this, that would be excellent.  There's
>> also some discussion going on on Slack.
>>
>> Hannah
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Hannah Grimm <dharlette at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for adding your voice in, Lupita!
>>>
>>> Just for the record, I'm not the person he harassed; that was Naomi.  As
>>> someone who's been harassed at NB before, and who *didn't* come forward
>>> about it for a long time, I get how hard it can be to put yourself out
>>> there to try to get rid of someone who's done something like that, so I'm
>>> just trying to be as loud a voice for removing abusers as I can in the
>>> hopes that the actual victim doesn't have to deal with this bullshit.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Lupita Berries <garyberries at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think for the sake of all women feeling welcomed, he should have an
>>>> unconditional ban. Even if Hannah herself doesn't want him to be banned, I
>>>> think it sets up a bad environment where such harassing behavior is
>>>> accepted, and sends out a larger unwelcoming message towards women at NB.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Hannah,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 13 April 2014 17:46, Hannah Grimm <dharlette at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> > Please ask him to leave.  I am not comfortable having someone who
>>>>> treated
>>>>> > Naomi with such extreme disrespect by looking up her skirt existing
>>>>> in the
>>>>> > space.  I do not care if he seems to be behaving fine to you as a
>>>>> guy right
>>>>> > now, his behavior is unacceptable and he cannot be at NB.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > If you're an asshole when you haven't slept, it's your
>>>>> responsibility to get
>>>>> > enough sleep to not be an asshole.  The same is true for people who
>>>>> > willingly engage in substance abuse.
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you suggesting an unconditional, unbounded request to leave and
>>>>> not return?
>>>>>
>>>>> Please jump into the #safe-space-wg on Slack and let's nut it out
>>>>> quickly.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -a
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>
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Ronald Cotoni
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