On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Anand B Pillai <anandpillai at letterboxes.org> wrote:
>> in anyway, but in general I don't personally agree with >> "woman coding" as a separate problem as opposed to "people >> coding". >I hope you raised these objections on the PSF mailing list too. >-svaksha As a PSF member I'm going to delurk right now. That's because as an admirer/supporter of the India Python community, I'm rather shocked and saddened by this thread. The PSF and pyladies have been affiliated for quite some time, arguably years at this point. In fact, the PSF has provided thousands, perhaps ten of thousands of dollars of support for PyLadies. In addition, PyLadies was co-founded by an Indian-American (Audrey Roy), so one can argue that the qualities that make up the group were influenced by her Indian heritage. For reference, Anand Pillai has never raised any issues about Pyladies in the PSF members mailing list or any other venues except for his now deleted GitHub repo, this thread, and a previous one. Like myself and other PSF members, there have been and are numerous opportunities and occasions to discuss PyLadies in official channels to which he has ready access. Rather than argue in one direction or another, I wonder how Anand would feel if I created a similar github repo, this one in regards to the entire Python community of India. Imagine those same code structures in regards to India. Imagine if I used all of his emailed arguments in the defense of my code and "humor". How would the readers of this list feel? Angry. Furious. Demanding of real apologies. Svashka is standing up for what's right. I'm behind what she says 100%. -- 'Knowledge is Power' Daniel Greenfeld Principal at Cartwheel Web; co-author of Two Scoops of Django cartwheelweb.com | pydanny.com | django.2scoops.org _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
