Re:An Open Letter to the Python Software Foundation
by acdha on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @11:02AM
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Nobody is prohibited from attending based on their political views. It’s only a question of whether those views cause someone to negatively impact other attendees that they have a problem. You can be completely anti-LGBT as long as you’re mature enough to only talk about Python at a Python conference.
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Re:An Open Letter to the Python Software Foundation
by polski-g on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @11:29AM
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They're not funding entire conferences because of how a country decides to vote, even though it has nothing to do with Python or programming.
Re:An Open Letter to the Python Software Foundation
by acdha on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @11:34AM
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It does have to do with people being free and safe to attend, however. If you see freedom as additive, that’s consistent: the PSF doesn’t want to be associated with conferences which are risky for some people to attend. That doesn’t mean that a different conference can’t be organized, only that they are uncomfortable supporting less free places. I’m fine with that as long as it applies to U.S. states which fail the same concerns.