Thanks for this comment. I think that we'd find each other in strident agreement, which is why I typically only go to smaller or more academically inclined conf

Thanks for this comment. I think that we'd find each other in strident agreement, which is why I typically only go to smaller or more academically inclined conferences these days. That said: a lot of us have constructed our identities through exploration online, so the notion that IRC and GitHub are not expressive of personal identity sounds a little weird to me. It's very, very hard to actually separate identity from the developer, especially when it comes to activities like bug triage. I don't have a good answer, but I think there's an assumption that what we can measure necessarily is what is important, when what we measure in terms of programmers is often what's easy to measure.