Time Nick Message 00:00 melodie what's up ? 00:03 pdurbin I made a post to #ubuntu-women-project today: http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2013/03/21/%23ubuntu-women-project.html 00:04 pdurbin about the "Forking and Dongle Jokes Don’t Belong At Tech Conferences" thing from PyCon 00:15 melodie what is the central idea about it ? 00:18 pdurbin well, if people misbehave in public, is it ok to take a picture of them and post it on twitter? 00:19 pdurbin this might be more on topic for another IRC channel of mine... http://spanworm.com 00:20 melodie ok for whom ? for the people who post, the ones who read, or the one who misbehaves ? 00:20 melodie pdurbin your chan, your topic :) 00:21 melodie pdurbin I'll also ask one more : how well known are the ones who misbehaved ? ^^ 00:21 melodie that's how people are 00:21 melodie they can make fun from anything... 00:21 melodie (thinking about the former French president in France) 00:22 melodie pdurbin tell me more about this Tech Conferences ? 00:30 pdurbin PyCon is a Python conference 00:31 pdurbin it hit my radar the other day because I saw this: "Holy effing crap. We're over 20% women. #pycon #pyladies" -- https://twitter.com/roguelynn/status/313319776149729280 00:31 pdurbin which I thought was really cool 00:32 pdurbin but then a day or two later there was this weird incident with the twitter picture and the misbehavior. the guy lost his job over it, it sounds like 00:33 jsh pdurbin: SendGrid let Adria Richards go too 00:34 pdurbin jsh: interesting. I hadn't heard that 00:35 jsh http://bit.ly/ZCt0gi 00:36 jsh I'm not endorsing that particular article about it, btw, just the first google hit when I searched just now 00:36 jsh :) 00:36 pdurbin wow. less than 24 hours after she tweeted "Hey @mundanematt, it's clear from the last 24 hours you're a bully. @SendGrid supports me. Stop trolling." at https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/314452708549603328 00:37 pdurbin right. yeah 00:37 pdurbin I've been trying to be very careful about discussing it 00:37 pdurbin I'm still mulling the whole thing over 00:38 jsh Same here. It's an important topic to discuss, but I doubt I'll have enough information to feel like I could pass judgement on anyone involved. 00:38 melodie isn't that some personal griefs made public ? 00:38 pdurbin yeah, will probably never have enough information 00:39 pdurbin melodie: I think her write up of the situtation is probably pretty accurate: http://butyoureagirl.com/14015/forking-and-dongle-jokes-dont-belong-at-tech-conferences/ 00:39 jsh but I have spent a little time thinking about what I'd do if one of them worked for me, etc. 00:40 pdurbin I've been thinking what it would take for me to take pictures and post them like that... if I witnessed some police brutality, I suppose 00:41 jsh for me, basically, it comes down to this: all three involved were there wearing conference sponsor badges, being paid to represent their employers 00:42 jsh and if it were my company, I'd expect them to act professionally 00:42 jsh whether that happened in this case is unclear, I suppose 00:42 pdurbin good point 00:43 jsh and yeah, I'd reserve my photo taking to police abusing their power...twitter shaming seems a little like anon doxing, mobs with pitchforks, etc. 00:45 pdurbin hmm, I just read the apology from the guy at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681 and it sounds really sincere 00:46 melodie I haven't finished reading that page and looking into word dictionnary to get the meaning of each and every word I don't know yet, but it seems to me that it takes some courage to do as she has done 00:48 pdurbin absolutely it took courage. but was it the right thing to do? that's what I'm struggling with 00:48 pdurbin I hate all the sexism surrounding the tech industry. it drives me crazy 00:51 jsh I agree it took courage as well. one of the developers I work with linked to this http://bit.ly/XtvCut today as counterpoint to Adria's blog post. His tone is a little strong, IMO, but the reasoning is fairly solid 00:52 melodie this is a topic which goes beyond tech really 00:53 melodie I have been living in France since my childhood, was brought up here and live here almost all the time. I am in the south; I have been invited to a conference related to "the rights of women" 00:54 melodie the lady who talked during that conference belongs to some ministry, where they try to study, evaluate, and make things change little by little. many things are considered: 00:54 melodie the possibility for both men and women to get vacation when they become parents, try to think about laws to make it more equal, about the salaries for the same tasks and about books 00:55 melodie all kind of books 00:55 melodie and ads as well 00:55 pdurbin sounds like a good conference 00:55 melodie one family in Canada, playing scrabble, while searching for some words in a dictionnary, realize that: 00:56 melodie a boy is "a hero" while a girl is "pretty", "naughty" and many more. so they started to look at the examples for adjectives, and they were amazed about that 00:57 melodie then some people read about this story and looked into dictionnaries in Belgium, France, and saw about the same mode 00:57 melodie I was thinking about something else... 00:57 melodie yes 00:57 melodie in school 00:57 pdurbin in English boys are made of snips and snails and puppy dog tails, while girls are made of sugar and spice and everthing nice 00:58 melodie during the conference, a young guy commented about what he saw in the books in high school in maths 00:58 melodie :D 00:58 melodie about math books 00:59 melodie all the famous theories which related to a man have a frame next with a small biography of these men, while when one theorem is from a women, no frame can be seen about her biography 01:00 pdurbin strange 01:00 melodie sorry if I don't have all the vocabulary to transmit... that was just incredible to hear, so many things in the current life where sexism is inserted 01:00 melodie I have to seek for a few words, I don't now what snips is 01:00 pdurbin heh. me neither :) 01:00 pdurbin it's just what we say :) 01:01 pdurbin jsh: I saw your mention of http://jerichoattrition.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/all-this-over-a-dongle/ ... long but i'll read it later. thanks 01:01 melodie strange 01:03 pdurbin I wonder if there will be any lawsuits over any of this. the pycon incident 01:04 melodie has one of the guy's being really fired ? 01:06 pdurbin according to this both guys worked at the same company but only one was fired: http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2013/03/21/%23ubuntu-women-project.html#t13:22 01:09 pdurbin melodie: what were you saying about the French president? 01:10 melodie the former president has had a conduct high above many misbehaviors 01:10 melodie so there is lots of laugh about him on youtube for instance 01:11 melodie and a great lack of elegance in many occasions 01:11 melodie the words I have in mind about him are far from being polite 01:12 melodie not even speaking about politics... just the way of acting and talking publicly 01:12 pdurbin_m :) 01:16 melodie humm 01:16 melodie http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/03/21/2235251/canonical-and-china-announce-ubuntu-collaboration?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed 01:17 pdurbin hmm, good for ubuntu 01:21 pdurbin Automate ALL THE THINGS - DevFest SV | nags of a similar ilk | kitt hodsden rocks! - http://kitt.hodsden.org/talks/devfestsv-automate 01:21 pdurbin that link was described by Kevin Marks as "lifehacker for nerds" at http://twit.tv/show/this-week-in-google/190 01:21 pdurbin lots of command line goodies, etc. 01:22 pdurbin they called this site out in particular, which I hadn't heard of: alias.sh | Manage, share and source your aliases online. - http://alias.sh 01:26 melodie cool ! 01:27 melodie sure they would love to know about it at linuxvillage 01:27 melodie the beta linuxvillage... 01:33 melodie good afternoon ! 01:47 pdurbin jsh: I dunno, that article was fine. I'm not 100% on board with it though. seems to say she's completely in the wrong 01:47 pdurbin and maybe she is, i dunno. as we've already said we'll probably never have enough information 01:48 pdurbin the article did link to the statement of her termination, which was interesting: http://blog.sendgrid.com/sendgrid-statement/ 01:48 pdurbin "As we continue to process the vast amount of information, we will post something more comprehensive." 01:50 jsh ah, that's interesting, something direct from the employer is cool, so often employers are silent when they let someone go 01:55 pdurbin I don't envy SendGrid right now, or the employer of the guys 01:56 pdurbin all the people involved seem to be pretty young, judging by their pictures 02:13 * pdurbin looks up "doxing" ... http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/doxing 14:46 pdurbin overheard: "if Harvard goes all the way..." #marchmadness 21:23 semiosis PKI has key ceremonies; WOT has key signing parties. 21:27 pdurbin party on