[BangPypers] April month meetup

2013-03-23 Thread kracekumar ramaraju
All, Siva informed me he is willing to handle 3 hours hands-on session about getting started with Django next month. We need a venue which has power socket and decent internet connection. I would like to have others suggestions about the format, looking forward for venue to host for next meetup.

[BangPypers] March month meetup

2013-03-23 Thread kracekumar ramaraju
All, March month Bangpypers meetup was held in FSMK(http://www.fsmk.org/) office. 25 people attended the meetup. Siva gave session how to get started with Django web development, showed a demo how to create a todo list using Django admin interface. There was one lightning talk by Arun(http://aru

Re: [BangPypers] Female developer fired after tweeting about men's comments at PyCon 2013 and San Jose.

2013-03-23 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Jeffrey Jose writes: [...] > Remember we organize Pycons too. The more we dismiss these, the less > we appear unprepared for such things. Take a stand, invite more female > friends and tell them we care about them. PSF supports it, and takes > pride in how many female developers we have in our

Re: [BangPypers] Female developer fired after tweeting about men's comments at PyCon 2013 and San Jose.

2013-03-23 Thread स्वक्ष
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Jeffrey Jose wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Gora Mohanty wrote: > >> IMHO, this is a technically-oriented list, not a socially-oriented one. >> > > It shouldnt be. And I have good reasons to believe it isnt. > > These are real issues affecting Python. I

Re: [BangPypers] Female developer fired after tweeting about men's comments at PyCon 2013 and San Jose.

2013-03-23 Thread स्वक्ष
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 7:24 PM, L Radhakrishna Rao wrote: > What the hell is this news doing here? So, swearing on the list to express your annoyance is acceptable? > I guess this is a forum to discuss programming, particularly python > programming and not about the laws and constitution. It i

Re: [BangPypers] Female developer fired after tweeting about men's comments at PyCon 2013 and San Jose.

2013-03-23 Thread L Radhakrishna Rao
What the hell is this news doing here? I guess this is a forum to discuss programming, particularly python programming and not about the laws and constitution. Regards, RK ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/

Re: [BangPypers] Female developer fired after tweeting about men's comments at PyCon 2013 and San Jose.

2013-03-23 Thread Bibhas Ch Debnath
The title is as misleading as it can be. Bibhas http://bibhas.in On 23 March 2013 16:25, Jeffrey Jose wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Dhruv Baldawa >wrote: > > > The headlines are biased and misleading, the event is has been resolved, > > changes have been made to Code of Condu

Re: [BangPypers] Female developer fired after tweeting about men's comments at PyCon 2013 and San Jose.

2013-03-23 Thread Jeffrey Jose
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Dhruv Baldawa wrote: > The headlines are biased and misleading, the event is has been resolved, > changes have been made to Code of Conduct. FYI, even one of the male > developers was fired. I would suggest you read the following answer. > > > http://www.quora.com/

Re: [BangPypers] Female developer fired after tweeting about men's comments at PyCon 2013 and San Jose.

2013-03-23 Thread Jeffrey Jose
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Gora Mohanty wrote: > IMHO, this is a technically-oriented list, not a socially-oriented one. > It shouldnt be. And I have good reasons to believe it isnt. These are real issues affecting Python. If you think nonoptimized tail-recursion calls and dozens of http

Re: [BangPypers] Female developer fired after tweeting about men's comments at PyCon 2013 and San Jose.

2013-03-23 Thread Dhruv Baldawa
The headlines are biased and misleading, the event is has been resolved, changes have been made to Code of Conduct. FYI, even one of the male developers was fired. I would suggest you read the following answer. http://www.quora.com/PyCon-Tweet-Controversy-March-2013/Was-it-appropriate-for-SendGrid

Re: [BangPypers] Female developer fired after tweeting about men's comments at PyCon 2013 and San Jose.

2013-03-23 Thread Nitin Kumar
My apology Mr Gora, I didnt knew my mail will be taken this way. As it was related to PyCon but more of gender bias and how companies reacts. Didnt knew of other forum to share this news ;) Will surely take from next time. One more thing, if I dont like anything I just refrain rather that topic

Re: [BangPypers] Female developer fired after tweeting about men's comments at PyCon 2013 and San Jose.

2013-03-23 Thread Gora Mohanty
On 23 March 2013 15:08, Jeffrey Jose wrote: > I disagree. > > I haven't read the article but it looks like it talks about very specific > behavior in the python community which we are all part of. Maybe you would care to explain how this fits with the list's stated purpose of "This group is for d

Re: [BangPypers] Female developer fired after tweeting about men's comments at PyCon 2013 and San Jose.

2013-03-23 Thread Jeffrey Jose
I disagree. I haven't read the article but it looks like it talks about very specific behavior in the python community which we are all part of. -jeff On Mar 23, 2013 3:01 PM, "Gora Mohanty" wrote: > On 23 March 2013 14:49, Nitin Kumar wrote: > > Thought to share news eveen though it has very

Re: [BangPypers] Female developer fired after tweeting about men's comments at PyCon 2013 and San Jose.

2013-03-23 Thread Gora Mohanty
On 23 March 2013 14:49, Nitin Kumar wrote: > Thought to share news eveen though it has very less to do with python. This > happened at PyCon 2013. > > San Jose: A female developer was fired after tweeting about a group of men > she said were making sexual comments at a computer programming co... >

[BangPypers] Female developer fired after tweeting about men's comments at PyCon 2013 and San Jose.

2013-03-23 Thread Nitin Kumar
Thought to share news eveen though it has very less to do with python. This happened at PyCon 2013. San Jose: A female developer was fired after tweeting about a group of men she said were making sexual comments at a computer programming co... http://ibnlive.in.com/news/female-developer-fired-aft