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> First let me say that I find it highly problematic that the complaint and the decision were public. Indeed I am surprised that LF would accept a publicly submitted code of conduct complaint. I am much more than surprised that LF would ever consider publicly responding to such a complaint.

Transparency is good though.

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There is nothing less transparent than giving a public judgment without any of the reasoning that led to that judgment.

"Our events should and will be a safe space."

Seems like a pretty clear reason. He demonstrated that he promotes a hostile attitude toward marginalized individuals who they want to attend the conference.

How? There's been a lot of motivations ascribed to him, but where has he concretely promoted or performed in a hostile way?

There is, not publishing anything at all would be worse in terms of transparency. I will agree however that publishing the reasoning would be much better.

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