[BangPypers] Female developer fired after tweeting about men's comments at PyCon 2013 and San Jose.

[Jeffrey Jose]

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Dhruv Baldawa <dhruvbaldawa at gmail.com>wrote:

> The headlines are biased and misleading, the event is has been resolved,
> changes have been made to Code of Conduct. FYI, even one of the male
> developers was fired. I would suggest you read the following answer.
>
>
> http://www.quora.com/PyCon-Tweet-Controversy-March-2013/Was-it-appropriate-for-SendGrid-to-fire-Adria-Richards-over-the-PyCon-Tweet-Controversy/answer/Gayle-Laakmann-McDowell?srid=hd5W&share=1


That was a good read. Thanks for sending that across.


>
>
> On Mar 23, 2013 3:30 PM, "Nitin Kumar" <nitin.nitp at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > My apology Mr Gora,
> >
> > I didnt knew my mail will be taken this way. As it was related to PyCon
> but
> > more of gender bias and how companies reacts.
> >
> > Didnt knew of other forum to share this news ;)
> > Will surely take from next time.
> >
> > One more thing, if I dont like anything I just refrain rather that topic
> > than making issue.
> >
> > Nitin K
> > On Mar 23, 2013 3:14 PM, "Gora Mohanty" <gora at mimirtech.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On 23 March 2013 15:08, Jeffrey Jose <jeffjosejeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I disagree.
> > > >
> > > > I haven't read the article but it looks like it talks about very
> specific
> > > > behavior in the python community which we are all part of.
>
> No, I dont think so.
>
> > > Maybe you would care to explain how this fits with the list's stated
> > > purpose of "This group is for discussions related to the Python
> > > programming language. We welcome all kinds of discussions related to
> > > Python."?
> > >
> > > IMHO, this is a technically-oriented list, not a socially-oriented one.
> > > Plenty of other forums are available for discussing the kinds of things
> > > Nitin and you seem to want to.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Gora
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