On: Django adopts a Code of Conduct

[zzzeek]

the Pycon conference adopted a code of conduct and last year saw a record number of women attending and giving presentations:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/women2/2013/04/09/record-number-...

clearly you can play the "correlation is not causation" card here but anecdotal evidence of "harm" done by a CoC isn't any better.

Also, the CoC's we're talking about here wouldn't eject someone for using the word "pussy". if anything, it would protect this person as the CoC would call for an appropriate reaction, instead of an off-the-cuff overreaction.

[AdrianRossouw → zzzeek]

this is the same conference that spawned dongle-gate?

[briancurtin → AdrianRossouw]

The conference spawned nothing. It has a policy, it adhered to it, and by both sides in the situation's own admission, did what it said it would do.

The "spawn" here was the internet.