The situation was more a product of booze, partying and potentially socially awkward people celebrating an event together as it was about an Open Source issue.

The situation was more a product of booze, partying and potentially socially awkward people celebrating an event together as it was about an Open Source issue. This type of stuff happens elsewhere outside of Open Source. To suggest that somehow the Open Source community should rise above it more than say, the accountancy industry is a bit silly at best. The measures put forward by the author, such as codes of conduct and training sound like the type of thing that might work in a company but are just not going to work at a conference, let alone one with lots of people present, let alone at a party peripheral to a conference. Two people were very badly affected by the whole episode, the girl and the guy. I'd like to see people let these two sort their issues out with the authorities while we all move on, but something tells me that people are going to try and milk this as long as they can. Maybe I'm just incredibly cynical, but I get the impression that not all that I've read on this matter is as much about the girl or the guy, but more about generating noise to get links. I'm not suggesting that TFA has or hasn't done this, more that I'm an extremely cynical person.