white ruby ribbon to wear at conferences

[svenfuchs]

The idea for this came up at a discussion at a local railsgirls ruby study group on Monday. We've talked about the recent incidents in the Ruby community and people shared thoughts and experiences.

The idea is based on http://www.whiteribbon.org.au, which was linked to by Ryan in http://ryanbigg.com/2013/10/violence-in-the-ruby-community.

The idea is to hand out white ribbons to wear at conferences and having a simple website which explains the message it represents.

We are looking for people to help implementing this really short-term so it can be used for conferences coming up this week.

[plexus]

for an upcoming conference I plan to wear a ribbon myself, tweet about it linking to this page, and inviting people to come talk to me if they want to talk about it, or if they want a ribbon themselves.

[svenfuchs]

status: @plexus has added a few draft skeleton pages. @ngkhanhlinh is going to do a minimalistic design, @lislis going to implement it.

thanks all :)

[plexus]

Suggestions welcome, especially a few links for the about page to resources for people who want to educate themselves.

[ctrlaltjustine]

This is an amazing idea that I fully support.

[ngkhanhlinh]

I'm done with the first draft. Let me know if you have any comments. :)

[lislis]

nice!

[ctrlaltjustine]

Great start. Mind if I take a stab at some thoughts/change suggestions?

[ngkhanhlinh]

Feel free to let me know what you think :) @saltinejustine

[ctrlaltjustine]

Just a bit of thoughts on cleaning it up a bit and making it a single page?

[ctrlaltjustine]

Could be nice in future for social media to have people tweet photos of them at conferences with other people wearing the white ribbon?

[lislis]

looks really good, too.
@plexus @svenfuchs where will you host the site? any restirctions I need to think of?

[plexus]

Amazing job in so little time <3

@lislis don't think that's decided, probably gh-pages or heroku. Is there something particular you would like to use beyond plain HTML/CSS?

[lislis]

@plexus not really, but it helps me to decide what boilerplate/ generator best fits the job :)

[svenfuchs]

Wowowow, this is really great! Thanks all :)

@saltinejustine The initial idea was to separate the pages, so that the message really stands out, and not draw too much attention to explanations and stuff. Now that i see your draft i'm pretty undecided, because i like it.

@ngkhanhlinh What do you think?

@lislis I'd say GitHub pages? Since we have almost zero time at hand to setup things? What's your take?

[svenfuchs]

After some discussion via email I'd like to propose to remove the "against women" bit, and make refer to just any kind of violence. I think we don't want to exclude minority there. I also feel we need to make more clear that (different from those other campaigns that we reference) we don't only ask men to pledge, but just everyone.

Thoughts?