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Karen and Bradley discuss the href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/03/pycon-2013-sexism-dongle-richards">sexist
comment issue that occurred a few months ago at PyCon USA 2013.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:00:34)

• Bradley and Karen previously discussed href="http://faif.us/cast/2010/dec/07/0x04/">conference behavior back in
  Episode 0x04.
• Bradley had blogged a few years ago about href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/02/17/education-floss.html">the
  issues of sexism through the computer industry, including this href="http://archive.cra.org/statistics/survey/0708.pdf">study showing
  the glass ceiling in CS academics. (05:17)
• Bradley mentioned that he'd blogged in the past that href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2012/06/23/proprietary-software-sexism-too.html">proprietary
  software companies also have issues of sexism at conferences (05:58)
• Bradley mentioned the href="http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/CouchDB_talk">How to Perform Like
  a Porn Star CouchDB talk at a Ruby Conference (06:13)
• There is indeed a Project named
  PyCorn. (09:38)
• Bradley mentioned the href="http://wap.npr.org/news/Business/168967999?start=5">Planet Money
  story about Online Pharmacies but he couldn't find the original audio
  of the longer piece that ends with the phrase Stay Shady, Internet
  (21:30)
• Bradley mentioned a quote about the human mind being the most
  dangerous thing because everything is in it, which is actually from href="http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/526/pg526.html">Heart of
  Darkness by Joesph Conrad. (23:40)
• Bradley mentioned that a href="https://www.rstat.us/updates/4ea928321bdece46b50083db">keynoter at
  LinuxCon Europe made sexist comments back in 2011. (30:02)


• Bradley and Karen encouraged listeners to promote href="http://gnome.org/opw/">the GNOME Foundation Outreach Program for
  Women (31:20)
• Bradley mentioned href="http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth_at_Linuxcon">Shuttleworth's
  comment at LinuxCon North America in 2009 (32:02).

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