Martina Ferrari & Debian, DebConf room list: who sleeps with who?
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock.
Dr Preining has raised fresh concerns about the relationship between Martina Ferrari (anti-harassment team) and Enrico Zini (Debian Account Managers).
Credible organizations seek to establish a separation of powers between different decision making bodies, especially the bodies responsible for political prisoners like Dr Preining. Zini alleges Dr Preining has been expelled twice from Debian, this has never happened to anybody before. It is an outrage and the only way to respond is to look at Zini and Ferrari and their bed-buddies.
Google and other Debian/DebConf sponsors insist that DebConf participants share rooms. This is a gimmick to prevent people bringing their wives and girlfriends. When we come to DebConf, they want us to do free work for them without distractions from family. For ninety percent of the population who are heterosexual this is an inconvenience and an insult. For the ten percent who have an LGBT+ lifestyle there is no inconvenience at all.
Volunteers have started publishing the DebConf room sharing lists. These lists reveal a lot about the conflicts of interest.
We call on people to look closely at social media and any other evidence to identify which teams are compromised by a romantic conflict of interest. █
