Oh no, how can I possibly risk going to Pycon? The Thought Policy will find me and turn my every word against me! My career will be in tatters! No I shall hide in my basement and think safe thoughts!
No, really I love events like Pycon. Pycon is run by volunteers and the attending community are by and amazing human beings. The reason the code of conduct even exists is because theres is an extreme disproportionate lack of diversity within. We're mostly populated by white males like myself. We (or at least the software community I network with) want to encourage diversity and thus become stronger. Part of that is dealing with some unfortunate ugly truths, one of which is that there is a geniune harassment problem in our industry and it needs to be stomped out.
And of course donglegate had nothing to do with diversity or conduct policies. The transgression would have taken 5 minutes to resolve peacefully between adults. But instead somebody wanted to pick an internet fight and misery ensued. Nobody involved won on that day but I personally think Pycon was one of least deserving victims of that particular train crash. They ran yet another a fantastic event but all the outside world is going to hear is about donglegate
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Oh no, how can I possibly risk going to Pycon? The Thought Policy will find me and turn my every word against me! My career will be in tatters! No I shall hide in my basement and think safe thoughts!
No, really I love events like Pycon. Pycon is run by volunteers and the attending community are by and amazing human beings. The reason the code of conduct even exists is because theres is an extreme disproportionate lack of diversity within. We're mostly populated by white males like myself. We (or at least the software community I network with) want to encourage diversity and thus become stronger. Part of that is dealing with some unfortunate ugly truths, one of which is that there is a geniune harassment problem in our industry and it needs to be stomped out.
And of course donglegate had nothing to do with diversity or conduct policies. The transgression would have taken 5 minutes to resolve peacefully between adults. But instead somebody wanted to pick an internet fight and misery ensued. Nobody involved won on that day but I personally think Pycon was one of least deserving victims of that particular train crash. They ran yet another a fantastic event but all the outside world is going to hear is about donglegate