PyCon staff of course will be sycophantic with upset guests because they hate bad press. All the PyCon staff did was talk to the developer in question, ment

PyCon staff of course will be sycophantic with upset guests because they hate bad press. All the PyCon staff did was talk to the developer in question, mention that the comments had offended someone, and left it there. That's pretty much exactly what I would expect them to do. That was confirmed by the developer in question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5412553 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5412553 There were plenty of overreactions in that case; Adria Richards for choosing to publicly shame rather than either talk privately with the developers in question or simply bring it to the PyCon organizers' attention, Play Haven for choosing to fire him over such a minor incident rather than simply giving him a warning, SendGrid for choosing to fire Adria rather than try to work with her to try and bring her behavior more into line with acceptable public relations, and a large number of people on the internet for going way beyond the boundaries of civil behavior in harassing people on both sides of the debate. But among all of those over-reactions, from all accounts, the PyCon organizers behaved eminently reasonably.