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!