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his is a real dilbert strip, not an edit http:lldilbert.com/dyn/str str You are a nut job, you misunderstood the term Forking http:llen.wikipedia.org/wikiF and then got a man fired for a private conversation you overheard because they made a joke about "big dongles", not to you, or about you. What was the actual joke that you feel that mad? Of course you won't say it, because it wasn't offensive at all and you just wanted to "fell like Joan of Arc" and get a sence of superiority to go with your entitlement https://witter.com/adriarich You yourself make penis jokes, at the expense of people, and in an international public HEY, I GOT A RESPONSE DEAR NUTBAG...LINK TO Fork (software development) COLUMNIST I REAMED FOR MISUSING THE WORD DONGLE APOLO ACCUSE HIM MINORITIES From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia APPEARS THAT I WAS URONG It has been suggested that Repository clone be merged into this article or section. (Discuss) Proposed since March 2012. In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct piece of software. The term often implies not merely a development branch, but a ree and open source software is that which, by definition, may be forked from the original development team without prior permission without violating any copyright law. However, licensed forks of proprietary software (e.g. Unix) also happen. Ad a Richards @adriarichards As an advocate for digital equality, my actions today at #pycon made me f Arc, minus the visions ps How is that appropriate considering your actions? especially when you broke a rule in the terms of service you yourself linked to https:/lus pycon.org/2013/abou. aps ore WE'RE ALMOST OUT HERE IS JUST ONE DEPARTMENT OF 7.nEER OF HERE, SPACE. OBSTACLE LEFT TOPOLITICAL SCIENCE OVERCOME RETWEETS FAVORITES rassing photography or recording @skwashd you should put something in your pants next time. like a bunch of socks inside one... large. .sock. TSA agent faint It is impossible to argue that what you did would not be classified as harassment using photography You are a horrible human being, hiding behind "white male privilege" and "T'm an oppressed minority" to get away with your actions. you live in a $5000 a month luxury apartment, i live in a $1500 a month place with 4 other people, so please tell me more about how oppressed and difficult your life is, when you can get people fired because you Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following OVERHEARD A OH, WONYOUR RIGHTSMY BIOLOGYTHATS END WHERE PROF GAVE ME SEXUAL MY FEELINGS 8 OUT OF 25 HARASS ON MY MIDTERM. MENT, YO t like sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, SEXIST JOKE YESTERDAY, SOTHEY CALLED THE CAUGHT Remember when these were joke http://h.imgur.com/QEZINSt gif s just "modern s 6 Honestly, nobody has ever made me so unspeakably mad as you have, the smugness, the self satisfaction, the claims of being black when you are rightfully accused of lynching these people as if that excludes you from being able to lynch, the redefining of what racism is and then being racist by your own definition of it, the way you have never contributed anything of value to any open source project yet claim to be a developer on open sourc projects. you are such a despicable useless, waste of oxygen hiding behind self applied minority labels and yet have somehow convinced people to agree with your asinine KNOw flickr EDWARD DOUGHERTY, Owners Property Host | Harty & Harty Properties I (415) 601-3889 You wanted equality? b-------, you want special rights an unearned power over people. Any man would have their lights punched out if they pulled what you did today. but you are about as far away from a man as you could get, you are not a woman, you are just a little girl who wants attention so "tells" on the boys reading playboy in their tree-houses and makes it sound like they were molesting her, not caring about their punishment so long as CO 1043 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA REAT LOC-REAR UNIT = 2-BD, + BONUS OFFICE/DEN OR 3RD SLEEPING AREA. = HARDWD = PRIVR- NO PARKG 2BR/2BA Condo $5,295/month 2 And i know you'll just use this as more proof of sexism, that you are the victim. because you are so utterly deranged that you see yourself as some kind of feminist hero and me as an evil potential r-----, aka "male" and not as an oppressive fascist, forcing your narrow minded view of what is appropriate on other people with the threat of destroying their families. because that man making a penis joke is the real problem, not the women in the middle east who are stoned for lea men, or the Palestinian children having their schools targeted by Israeli rockets filled with White Phosphorous. if you cared about women or children then you would use your undeserved celebrity to do something about that. but you don't you just want attention and DESCRIPTION GREAT LOCATION! VALENCIA CORRIDOR ONE OF THE g to read, or the African children r---- by older PHOTO UNAVAILABLE OFFICE OR THIRD SLEEPING AREA IF NEEDED LARGE PRIVATE ROOF DECK You didn't out any men as sexist or misogynistic all you did was out yourself as a terrible human being. and one last thing. Your apartment did allow pets you liar, you just wanted to get rid of an old cat that you couldn't be stuffed to care about any more. http://h.imgur.com/qjR5KEK.jpg IN-UNIT CLOTHES WASHER AND DRYER PRIVATE ROOF DECK WITH VIEWS PETS WELCOME WITH EXTRA PET DEPOSIT HIGH SOARING CEILINGS IN LIVING AREA THE UNIT IS A LITTLE NARROW, BUT MAKES UP FOR IN ITS LOCATION AND VERTICLE-NESS RENTAL FEATURES Re Intercom system My cat Turtle is on her way to her new home. Sad we'll be parting ways after 18 years together but the new place doesn't accept pets. Thank you to everyone who helped spread the word and helped me find her a Adria Richards lied to people and used them to just throw away her 18-year-old cat, Turtle.
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Background

While attending the 2013 Python programming language convention PyCon on March 17th, 2013, developer evangelist Adria Richards tweeted a photo of a group of developers seated behind her during a plenary session, stating that they had been making crude jokes about “forking” and “‘big’ dongles.” She also sent a follow up tweet[1], citing PyCon’s Code of Conduct[2] which states that “all communication should be appropriate for a professional audience” and “harassment and sexist, racist or exclusionary jokes are not appropriate.”


Following her tweet, PyCon staff members contacted her via Twitter[3] asserting that they had dealt with the situation. The following day, Richards presented her account of the entire situation on her blog[4], explaining that she initially chose not to say anything to the men out of fear of “being heckled or [having my] experience denied,” but later tweeted her complaints out of concern for future women developers.

Notable Developments

March 20th: PyCon Responds

On March 20th, PyCon issued an official statement about the situation on their blog[5], stating that both parties were addressed in private where they agreed and apologized. Contrary to initial reports, neither party was removed from the conference. The organizers also noted that they valued their attendee’s privacy and later updated their Attendee Procedure for Incident Handling[6] to add that they do not condone public shaming in these incidents.

March 21st: Terminations

In the early morning on March 21st, CEO of Playhaven Andy Yang posted a statement about the incident to the company blog[9], announcing that the offending person had been fired from the company. By noon on the same day, SendGrid announced Richards' termination on Twitter[10] and Facebook[11], despite an early tweet from Richards (shown below) claiming that SendGrid supported her.


Online Reactions

As news about the incident spread across Twitter, #Donglegate[7] emerged as the hashtag for related discussions, which was used more than 1000 times on March 20th. On Reddit, nearly 100 unique threads[12] about the incident were submitted to different subreddits including /r/MensRights[13], /r/TumblrInAction[14], /r/geek[15] and /r/news.[16] There were also two popular posts in /r/Technology[17] that were removed by the moderators. On March 21st, a Redditor on /r/Geek[18] pointed out a tweet Richards made on March 14th[19] (shown below) making a joke about a friend stuffing socks into his crotch region in response to him getting a pat-down by TSA agents, intending to point out her hypocrisy. The post accrued more than 2100 upvotes, 1300 points overall and nearly 750 comments within 13 hours.


News Media Coverage

The Daily Dot[21] was the first site to cover the incident on March 20th, followed by coverage on Techcrunch[22]. BetaBeat[23], New York Magazine[24], Businessweek[25], Mashable[26], Buzzfeed[27], VentureBeat[28], The Atlantic[30] and Ars Technica[31] the next day. It was also reported[29] that SendGrid suffered from DDoS attacks following the online backlash.

SendGrid's Statement

At 6:30 PM on March 21st, SendGrid CEO Jim Franklin issued a longer statement about Richards’ termination via a blog post[20] wherein he explained that while the company supported her right to report the incident, they did not support the means by which she did it or the extreme responses that came from it. He also claimed her actions "strongly divided the same community she was supposed to unite" making her unable to effectively do her job, resulting in her termination.

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External References

[1] Twitter – @adriarichards' Code of Conduct Tweet

[2] PyCon – Code of Conduct

[3] Twitter – @pycon's Tweet

[4] Adria Richards – Forking and Dongle Jokes Don’t Belong At Tech Conferences

[5] PyCon – PyCon's response to an inappropriate incident on March 17th

[6] PyCon Code of Conduct – Attendee Procedure for incident handling.md

[7] Twitter – Tweet results for #donglegate

[8] Topsy – Tweet statistics for #donglegate

[9] Bloghaven – Addressing PyCon

[10] Twitter – Richards' Termination Announcement

[11] Facebook – Richards' Termination Announcement

[12] Reddit – Search results for "Adria Richards"

[13] Reddit – Reaction by PyCon to Adria Richards bullying incident

[14] Reddit – Adria Richards has been fired from Sendgrid

[15] Reddit – Adria Richards has been terminated from SendGrid.

[16] Reddit – SendGrid Fires Adria Richards

[17] Reddit – /r/technology mods have now hidden two popular posts about the Adria Richards/Pycon Incident

[18] Reddit – Adria Richards, the "Developer Evangelist" who got someone fired from their job after overhearing a sexual joke at PyCon, just prefers her jokes to be about penises.

[19] Twitter – @adriarichards' TSA Sock Joke

[20] SendGrid – A Difficult Situation

[21] The Daily Dot – How a "big dongle" joke brought out the worst of the Internet

[22] Techcrunch – A Dongle Joke That Spiraled Way Out Of Control

[23] BetaBeat – Why Can’t the Tech Community Talk About Adria Richards Like Grownups?

[24] New York Magazine – All of Silicon Valley Is Scandalized Over a Stupid Dongle Joke

[25] Businessweek – Brogrammers Making Sex Jokes and Other Reasons Startups Need HR Departments

[26] Mashable – SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas

[27] Buzzfeed – Woman Publicly Fired For Tweeting About “Sexual Jokes”

[28] VentureBeat – Breaking: Adria Richards fired by SendGrid for calling out developers on TwitterV

[29] VentureBeat – SendGrid under DDOS attack after its developer evangelist complains about sexual jokes at PyCon

[30] The Atlantic – Hackers Got a Woman Fired by a Startup After She Called Out Sexual Harassment

[31] Ars Technica – How “dongle” jokes got two people fired--and led to DDoS attacks

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Background

While attending the 2013 Python programming language convention PyCon on March 17th, 2013, developer evangelist Adria Richards tweeted a photo of a group of developers seated behind her during a plenary session, stating that they had been making crude jokes about “forking” and “‘big’ dongles.” She also sent a follow up tweet[1], citing PyCon’s Code of Conduct[2] which states that “all communication should be appropriate for a professional audience” and “harassment and sexist, racist or exclusionary jokes are not appropriate.”




Following her tweet, PyCon staff members contacted her via Twitter[3] asserting that they had dealt with the situation. The following day, Richards presented her account of the entire situation on her blog[4], explaining that she initially chose not to say anything to the men out of fear of “being heckled or [having my] experience denied,” but later tweeted her complaints out of concern for future women developers.

Notable Developments

March 20th: PyCon Responds

On March 20th, PyCon issued an official statement about the situation on their blog[5], stating that both parties were addressed in private where they agreed and apologized. Contrary to initial reports, neither party was removed from the conference. The organizers also noted that they valued their attendee’s privacy and later updated their Attendee Procedure for Incident Handling[6] to add that they do not condone public shaming in these incidents.

March 21st: Terminations

In the early morning on March 21st, CEO of Playhaven Andy Yang posted a statement about the incident to the company blog[9], announcing that the offending person had been fired from the company. By noon on the same day, SendGrid announced Richards' termination on Twitter[10] and Facebook[11], despite an early tweet from Richards (shown below) claiming that SendGrid supported her.




Online Reactions

As news about the incident spread across Twitter, #Donglegate[7] emerged as the hashtag for related discussions, which was used more than 1000 times on March 20th. On Reddit, nearly 100 unique threads[12] about the incident were submitted to different subreddits including /r/MensRights[13], /r/TumblrInAction[14], /r/geek[15] and /r/news.[16] There were also two popular posts in /r/Technology[17] that were removed by the moderators. On March 21st, a Redditor on /r/Geek[18] pointed out a tweet Richards made on March 14th[19] (shown below) making a joke about a friend stuffing socks into his crotch region in response to him getting a pat-down by TSA agents, intending to point out her hypocrisy. The post accrued more than 2100 upvotes, 1300 points overall and nearly 750 comments within 13 hours.




News Media Coverage

The Daily Dot[21] was the first site to cover the incident on March 20th, followed by coverage on Techcrunch[22]. BetaBeat[23], New York Magazine[24], Businessweek[25], Mashable[26], Buzzfeed[27], VentureBeat[28], The Atlantic[30] and Ars Technica[31] the next day. It was also reported[29] that SendGrid suffered from DDoS attacks following the online backlash.

SendGrid's Statement

At 6:30 PM on March 21st, SendGrid CEO Jim Franklin issued a longer statement about Richards’ termination via a blog post[20] wherein he explained that while the company supported her right to report the incident, they did not support the means by which she did it or the extreme responses that came from it. He also claimed her actions "strongly divided the same community she was supposed to unite" making her unable to effectively do her job, resulting in her termination.

Search Interest

[Not Currently Available]

External References

[1] Twitter – @adriarichards' Code of Conduct Tweet

[2] PyCon – Code of Conduct

[3] Twitter – @pycon's Tweet

[4] Adria Richards – Forking and Dongle Jokes Don’t Belong At Tech Conferences

[5] PyCon – PyCon's response to an inappropriate incident on March 17th

[6] PyCon Code of Conduct – Attendee Procedure for incident handling.md

[7] Twitter – Tweet results for #donglegate

[8] Topsy – Tweet statistics for #donglegate

[9] Bloghaven – Addressing PyCon

[10] Twitter – Richards' Termination Announcement

[11] Facebook – Richards' Termination Announcement

[12] Reddit – Search results for "Adria Richards"

[13] Reddit – Reaction by PyCon to Adria Richards bullying incident

[14] Reddit – Adria Richards has been fired from Sendgrid

[15] Reddit – Adria Richards has been terminated from SendGrid.

[16] Reddit – SendGrid Fires Adria Richards

[17] Reddit – /r/technology mods have now hidden two popular posts about the Adria Richards/Pycon Incident

[18] Reddit – Adria Richards, the "Developer Evangelist" who got someone fired from their job after overhearing a sexual joke at PyCon, just prefers her jokes to be about penises.

[19] Twitter – @adriarichards' TSA Sock Joke

[20] SendGrid – A Difficult Situation

[21] The Daily Dot – How a "big dongle" joke brought out the worst of the Internet

[22] Techcrunch – A Dongle Joke That Spiraled Way Out Of Control

[23] BetaBeat – Why Can’t the Tech Community Talk About Adria Richards Like Grownups?

[24] New York Magazine – All of Silicon Valley Is Scandalized Over a Stupid Dongle Joke

[25] Businessweek – Brogrammers Making Sex Jokes and Other Reasons Startups Need HR Departments

[26] Mashable – SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas

[27] Buzzfeed – Woman Publicly Fired For Tweeting About “Sexual Jokes”

[28] VentureBeat – Breaking: Adria Richards fired by SendGrid for calling out developers on TwitterV

[29] VentureBeat – SendGrid under DDOS attack after its developer evangelist complains about sexual jokes at PyCon

[30] The Atlantic – Hackers Got a Woman Fired by a Startup After She Called Out Sexual Harassment

[31] Ars Technica – How “dongle” jokes got two people fired--and led to DDoS attacks

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