Remember all the pre-#34c3 shitstorm about the Wau Holland assembly declaring their space a "CoC-free zone"?
Today they had a really constructive talk with queer activists, moderated by the Awareness Team.
The result? A common declaration (see http://www.wauland.de/de/index.php) and working together in the future.
This is congress culture at its best: *communication* between groups of different ideologies that leads to a common understanding of problems, and cooperation.
@natanji This declaration is a bit empty, though, no?
@natanji They told Buzzfeed that they did what they did to "provoke a discussion". I'm done 😒
@malte It totally worked. Not in the way they intended originally, but it did.
The provocation was intended against protectourspaces.org though, not other participants of congress, as they said today at the discussion.
@natanji Okay... I'll stay done with this still until there are legitimate reasons not to be done with it, like if they ask for help writing their own code of conduct for example 🤷
@natanji ...and thank you, and probably lots of others, for having the conversation regardless of my state of done 😂 ❤
@malte For me this declaration marks some sort ot "hell freezes over" moment. Most people totally didn't expect this to be resolved in any kind of amicable fashion.
I don't expect previously warring parties to come up with very concrete solutions in the matter of one day. To me, the declaration os not empty, but says a lot.