When Adria Richards was fired for complaining about sexually inappropriate comments at a tech conference the internet erupted. And now it looks like internet activists are attacking the people involved.
Adria Richards, developer evangelist for SendGrid, an email infrastructure company, was allegedly terminated Thursday for tweeting about sexually inappropriate comments during a company conference.
Source: @adriarichards
Last week, during PyCon US 2013, a developer conference in California, Richards tweeted about a couple of male developers behind her making lewd comments about "dongles."
Source: @adriarichards
Source: @adriarichards
A few minutes later, one of the PyCon staff member approached to the left. I stood up, went outside to talk with him and explain the situation with a few of the other PyCon staff. They had seen my tweet. After explaining, they wanted to pull the people in question from the main ballroom. I walked back in with the PyCon staff and point them out one by one and they were escorted to the hallway.
As I walked back to my seat, I cannot tell you how proud I was of the PyCon and Python community at the very moment for keeping their word to make the conference a safe place to be. A bit shaken, I took my seat to continue watching the lightning talks. I sent an updated tweet that the situation was being dealt with and later on, PyCon tweeted they had addressed the issue
