<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div style>Long-time lurker here, thanks for letting me follow your insightful discussions! Thought I'd </div><div style><br></div><div style>Back story: Adriana Richards was attending a PyCon talk when two men in the row behind her started making chauvinistic jokes about "big dongles" and something related to git forking. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Here's Adriana's writeup: <a href="http://butyoureagirl.com/14015/forking-and-dongle-jokes-dont-belong-at-tech-conferences/">http://butyoureagirl.com/14015/forking-and-dongle-jokes-dont-belong-at-tech-conferences/</a></div>
<div style><br></div><div style>I think PyCon acted exemplary (they booted the idiots and one of them lost his job), but apparently Adriana's employer decided to fire her, possibly because they're getting DDoS'd in the wake of this idiocy.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Can we at this mailing list do something about this? I don't know if Adriana wants her job back (I doubt it), but I'd find it fitting to have a very public letter stating exactly why and how they suck. Also, we could make a "code of conduct" blueprint for conference arrangers to fork? </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>... and dissuade them from using the sexism cards seen on DEFCON and the 29c3. It turns sexism (and chauvinism, heterosexism) into some kind of sick game instead of having a serious discussion. People more eloquent than me have already pointed this out, I suppose you've all followed that discussion.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>All the best,</div><div style>JC</div></div>