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For a long time, starting in late 2013 and continuing through June 2014, Jen Kotila has been sexually harassed and bullied by people within three organizations that are closely connected; Labitat, a hackerspace in Copenhagen, Biologigaragen, an open biology lab that is a part of Labitat and KopenLab , an organization set up to facilitate a presence for the groups at ESOF 2014 in Copenhagen.

It has mainly been a few individuals who have been involved in all the groups who have been at the front of the harassment, but the organizations themselves have also been at fault for not taking the necessary steps to prevent harassment occurring and not responding in a sensible way when it was brought forward.

She has created a document giving an overview of the harassment, which can be seen here.

Because of this, she has taken to create a site on how to prevent discrimination and harassment in open knowledge organizations: OpenInclusivity.org