On Friday, March 22, 2013, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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Hello everyone,<br>
This is probably a touchy subject but I think it need to be<br>
aired.<br>
<br>
The PSF earlier announced that it requires a code of conduct at<br>
all sponsored events[1]. We've been recepients of PSF money and support<br>
which has helped PyCon India substantially.<br>
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At the recent PyCon, there was an incident that was a little<br>
disturbing and not something that I like. I'm not pointing fingers at<br>
anyone but the whole thing shouldn't have happened[2]. The gist of it is<br>
that someone who heard overheard some jokes being cracked by two<br>
participants of the event interpreted them to be sexual and<br>
inappropriate. She tweeted the pictures of the two men who were making<br>
the jokes and the matter was looked at the PSF and resolved. So far so<br>
good. However, it seems, and please remember that this *is* the<br>
internet, the act of putting pictures of the people on twitter (which is<br>
not how the PSFs policy works - they're against the public shaming<br>
thing) resulted in one of the two men, a father incidentally, losing his<br>
job. This was unfortunate.<br>
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I'd definitely like to see these kinds of events become more<br>
women friendly. The last barcamp in Bangalore had a string of tweets<br>
that were quite distasteful. As someone who was taking my daughter to<br>
the event, you can guess how I felt. The CoC is a general right step in<br>
that direction but the kinds of events I've mentioned above are<br>
disturbing.<br>
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The reason for this email is to start a discussion on whether we<br>
should adopt such a CoC, whether we should reword it to handle such<br>
situations and related discussions. I'm personally undecided but am<br>
brooding over the matter.<br>
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What do you all feel?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think we should adopt the CoC and announce in a blog post that we encourage diversity and blah blah. </div><div><br></div><div>PSF recently amended their CoC.</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/python/pycon-code-of-conduct/commit/500a3d25c27065598002f7c999de3fdfb7ab18b1">https://github.com/python/pycon-code-of-conduct/commit/500a3d25c27065598002f7c999de3fdfb7ab18b1</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I think it is important to people to inform about the CoC and instruct them to respect privacy of others.</div><div><br></div><div>Anand</div><br><br>-- <br>Anand<br><a href="http://anandology.com/" target="_blank">http://anandology.com/</a><br>