>the man in question was graceful enough to climb down and apologize and is widely respected and doing very well for himself today I remember the event because

>the man in question was graceful enough to climb down and apologize and is widely respected and doing very well for himself today I remember the event because there was nothing graceful about that man being forced to apologize repeatedly with no place for a rational discussion. It was public humiliation. And the fact that he didn't fought it made it even worse. Then there were organizers claiming that tweets containing "#europython" were part of the conference but that's another story.