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A site dedicated to showing how awesome PyCon was
- jinushaun 14y agoI must be the only one that doesn't think PyCon was tainted by Donglegate. This is TMZ for nerds.
- mbetter 14y agoI think you're supposed to use asterisks instead of saying the D-word now.
- iwanttoprogram 14y agoDude. I love forking dongles.
- hynek 14y agoUnfortunately mass media chose to report only on donglegate. One of them even started with something like “PyCon was as boring as a tech conference goes [until donglegate].”
- gojomo 14y agoThis site would be even stronger if it didn't mention the "sensations... inappropriate jokes... distastefully ugly backlash outside" at all. Those captivated by that flaming (but short-burning) controversy can already appreciate the contrast. Others with negligible awareness of the controversy can just enjoy the awesomeness, without the injection of another emotionally-loaded reference.
- hynek 14y agoI felt like it was good to mention it when we started out to give context. I’ve banned it now to a sub-page. I don’t want to remove it for good so nobody accuses us of being sneaky and ignoring incidents or something like that. It’s not the first thing you see when you come to the page anymore though.
- zalew 14y agoisn't this http://pyvideo.org/category/33/pycon-us-2013 http://pyvideo.org/category/33/pycon-us-2013 that site?
- eliben 14y ago"And if you want to say “thank you” you should do so on Jesse’s Gittip page." OK, seriously?
- res0nat0r 14y agoWhat is wrong with giving the organizer of the conference a tip if you think he deserves it?
- eliben 14y agoBecause this is about PyCon, not Jesse. With all due respect (and I respect him - he did a great job) he's not the only one who's been working to make PyCon possible and great. Not to mention the other people working on the organization, there are also the (unpaid) tutorial teachers, presenters, session leaders, volunteer developers of Python itself and other open-source related tools, and so on.
- hynek 14y agolast time i checked none of them got nightly creeper calls and death threats because of their involvement with PyCon. if you know of any, i’ll add them.