0x3D: Conference Behavior Redux

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x3D_Conference-Behavior.ogg"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in Ogg/Vorbis format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_ogg_button.png"/></a> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x3D_Conference-Behavior.mp3"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in MP3 format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_mp3_button.png"/></a> </p> <p> <p>Karen and Bradley discuss the <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/03/pycon-2013-sexism-dongle-richards">sexist comment issue that occurred a few months ago at PyCon USA 2013</a>.</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:00:34)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley and Karen previously discussed <a href="http://faif.us/cast/2010/dec/07/0x04/">conference behavior back in Episode 0x04</a>.</li> <li>Bradley had blogged a few years ago about <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/02/17/education-floss.html">the issues of sexism through the computer industry</a>, including this <a href="http://archive.cra.org/statistics/survey/0708.pdf">study showing the glass ceiling in CS academics</a>. (05:17)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned that he'd blogged in the past that <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2012/06/23/proprietary-software-sexism-too.html">proprietary software companies also have issues of sexism at conferences</a> (05:58)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned the <a href="http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/CouchDB_talk"><cite>How to Perform Like a Porn Star</cite> CouchDB talk at a Ruby Conference</a> (06:13)</li> <li>There is indeed a <a href="http://www.pycorn.org/">Project named PyCorn</a>. (09:38)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned the <a href="http://wap.npr.org/news/Business/168967999?start=5">Planet Money story about Online Pharmacies</a> but he couldn't find the original audio of the longer piece that ends with the phrase <q>Stay Shady, Internet</q> (21:30)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned a quote about the human mind being the most dangerous thing because everything is in it, which is actually from <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/526/pg526.html"><cite>Heart of Darkness</cite> by Joesph Conrad</a>. (23:40)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned that a <a href="https://www.rstat.us/updates/4ea928321bdece46b50083db">keynoter at LinuxCon Europe made sexist comments back in 2011</a>. (30:02) </li> <li>Bradley and Karen encouraged listeners to promote <a href="http://gnome.org/opw/">the GNOME Foundation Outreach Program for Women</a> (31:20)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned <a href="http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth_at_Linuxcon">Shuttleworth's comment at LinuxCon North America in 2009</a> (32:02).</li> </ul> <hr width="80%"/> <p>Send feedback and comments on the cast to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">&lt;[email protected]&gt;</a>. You can keep in touch with <a href="https://faif.us">Free as in Freedom</a> on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by <a href="http://identi.ca/conservancy">following Conservancy on identi.ca</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/conservancy">and Twitter</a>.</p> <p>Free as in Freedom is produced by <a href="http://danlynch.org/blog/">Dan Lynch</a> of <a href="http://danlynch.org/">danlynch.org</a>. Theme music written and performed by <a href="http://www.miketarantino.com">Mike Tarantino</a> with <a href="http://www.charliepaxson.com">Charlie Paxson</a> on drums.</p> <p><a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png" hspace=10 /></a> The content of <span xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound" rel="dc:type">this audcast</span>, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0)</a>. </p>