A woman's tweet about an offensive joke has led to firings and death threats. March 23, 2013 — -- Offensive jokes whispered at a tech conference last Sunday night have now spread much further ...

A female tech developer who outed men on Twitter for making what she described as inappropriate sexual comments at a Santa Clara technology conference Sunday is being hailed as a champion for women in ...

The flamers and the feminists have been vocal this week. Adria Richards was at PyCon last week. Her company, SendGird, was a gold sponsor of the event. She was sitting in the ballroom listening to ...

Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here Last night VentureBeat broke the story about a developer who was fired from his job at PlayHaven after being ...

Fired software developer faces online support%2C threats and criticism Worker overheard%2C then tweeted jokes she considered offensive%2C sexist Software conference attendee who make jokes also lost ...

A tweet declaring that sexist jokes were uttered during a conference has led to the firing of two people and divided the tech world. The situation spiraled out of control after Adria Richards’ took a ...

One tweet can lead to a disastrous onslaught of consequences, as Adria Richards has recently found out. While attending the PyCon Technology Conference last week, she overheard two male developers ...

In light of the recent PyCon debacle in which an offended party publicly shamed two developers at a conference for discussing dongles, I thought it would be interesting to address the problems of “lad ...

Waihōpai Invercargill, New Zealand - Kiwi PyCon kiwipycon.nz, the country’s national annual conference dedicated to the Python programming language, is set to take place in Waihōpai Invercargill from ...