Pycon Bug Report

Original Bug Report:
Filed by: Adria
Status: New
Release: Not triaged
Comment: I was expecting to see developers come to a conference to learn and network. Instead I saw some attendees making jokes that made me uncomfortable, pycon less desirable to females, and distracted me from learning. Picture attached.

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Comment: Adria, we'd prefer if you submitted tickets to the private security list first.

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Comment: I submitted one to the private security list before, but I was seeing the issue again. I care more about this being fixed than following procedure - Adria

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Status change: Cannot Reproduce, Closed.
Comment: Feature not a bug.

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Status change: Reopened
Priority change: High
Comment: Try it on a female (F) unit instead of a straight white male (SWM) unit. Instead of increased morale we see increased lack of participation and a high probability of the unit dropping out of the participant pool. There is some anecdotal evidence this affects other segments as well.

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Priority change: Low
Comment: We pretty much only focus on SWM. SWM is our largest segment (> 80%).

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Priority change: Blocker
Comment: Business sees segments other than SWM as growing markets that we need experience in to succeed.

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Tagged Release: Distant future
Comment: The solution to this would require too much re-architecture. Any changes would negatively affect the system in the short term.

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Tagged Release: 2014
Comment: I made a change to the communication protocol of the system and saw substantial gains in all segments. The SWM segment did see a small decrease in participation (some felt unsafe and insecure, similar to the original bug report), but this was more than compensated by an increase in participation by other segments.

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Comment: +1. When this feature is released I would love to come to PyCon!

@jashkenas: For better or for worse, Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven is valid CoffeeScript ;) http://t.co/S0f9TltF

http://twitter.com/jashkenas/status/251006360110641153 http://t.co/S0f9TltF

@tuxtux: SmallTalk syntax om a postcard. http://t.co/y9V6PDoH

http://twitter.com/tuxtux/status/250930516528873472 http://t.co/y9V6PDoH

@joshacagan: Just saw three professional-looking women laughing over salads. STOCK IMAGES HAVE GAINED SENTIENCE AND WALK AMONG US

http://twitter.com/joshacagan/status/250715446951673857 http://ifttt.com/missing_link?1348663974

@kevinlawler: Programmers want to optimize for clean syntax, because it's easy to see syntax. But the payoff is better for clean semantics.

http://twitter.com/kevinlawler/status/248474328805548033 http://ifttt.com/missing_link?1348080181

@aphyr: FUCK IT. ALL METHODS PUBLIC STATIC. ALL VARIABLES FINAL. CHEESE AND CRACKERS GET ME OUT OF THIS RIDICULOUS BOX.

http://twitter.com/aphyr/status/245318093100965888 http://ifttt.com/missing_link?1347324425

@tastapod: OH: I'm going to give my manager 3 copies of Mythical Man-Month and tell him it's so he can read it in 1/3 the time.

http://twitter.com/tastapod/status/241095137604804608 http://ifttt.com/missing_link?1346328712