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Re: Debian supports pridemonth?

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On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 10:24:33PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 09:24:34AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Gerardo Ballabio <gerardo.ballabio@gmail.com> writes:
> [...]
> > > And I don't think that this is, or should be, within the bounds of the
> > > Publicity Team delegation.
> > 
> > I think this is probably the place where we disagree.
> > 
> > That said, how *do* you want to handle this, assuming that other people in
> > the project do want to acknowledge important events for our community
> > members?  For example, Debian has made note of Diwali in the past in
> > various ways (arguably less obviously than changing the logo, to be fair),
> > and it's been entirely uncontroversial.
> [...]
> > Perhaps it's just because I come from a work culture where this sort of
> > acknowledgement is entirely routine and unexceptional, but this all feels
> > like a tempest in a teapot to me.
> 
> The latter is probably a cultural issue that varies significantly
> depending on where one lives and works.  My personal experience
> with the various places that I have worked at has been exactly
> the opposite from yours - employers have strictly avoided any
> form of communication towards their employees that could be even
> remotely related to religion or politics and employees were
> expected to not issue any statements with religious or political
> connotations when they spoke on behalf of the company.

Fully agreed. I don't think of any German company that would change its
LOGO (for crying out loud!) to care for a minority or even the majority
of its employees.

I once worked at a company where they rolled out a green carpet with
white lines in the entrance hall (thereby covering their logo that was
woven in the regular carpet) and put up a soccer goal during the world
championship. I don't care about the multi-million euro business that
masquerades itself as "sports", and I hated it.

Greetings
Marc


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Re: Debian supports pridemonth? Gerardo Ballabio <gerardo.ballabio@gmail.com> - 2019-07-01 09:00 +0200
  Re: Debian supports pridemonth? Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2019-07-01 09:40 +0200
  Re: Debian supports pridemonth? Alex Mestiashvili <amestia@rsh2.donotuse.de> - 2019-07-01 10:40 +0200
  Re: Debian supports pridemonth? Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> - 2019-07-01 11:10 +0200
    Speaking your Mind Sam Hartman <leader@debian.org> - 2019-07-01 20:10 +0200
      Re: Speaking your Mind Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2019-07-02 16:50 +0200
        Re: Speaking your Mind Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2019-07-02 16:50 +0200
        Re: Speaking your Mind Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2019-07-02 18:10 +0200
        Re: Speaking your Mind Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2019-07-02 18:30 +0200
          Re: Speaking your Mind Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2019-07-19 23:30 +0200
  Re: Debian supports pridemonth? Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2019-07-01 18:30 +0200
    Re: Debian supports pridemonth? Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org> - 2019-07-01 22:30 +0200
      Re: Debian supports pridemonth? Marc Haber <mh+debian-project@zugschlus.de> - 2019-07-02 11:40 +0200
    Re: Debian supports pridemonth? Eldon Koyle <ekoyle@gmail.com> - 2019-07-02 00:40 +0200
      Re: Debian supports pridemonth? Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2019-07-02 01:10 +0200
    Re: Debian supports pridemonth? Gerardo Ballabio <gerardo.ballabio@gmail.com> - 2019-07-02 15:20 +0200
      Re: Debian supports pridemonth? Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org> - 2019-07-02 15:50 +0200

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