On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Anand B Pillai <anandpil...@letterboxes.org> wrote: > +1. Btw, I founded and manage this list, but I see my "actions" > deserve some explanation. As Sriram, said I do have a (somewhat > extreme) sense of sarcastic and dry humour. I am also a PSF member > from 2010 and also President of PSSI.
So? If anything, you should be held to higher standards as a PSF member and PSSI president. > curious. Maybe the OP of this thread who is an active member I may be the OP but I am not the founder, rather just a member who setup the mailman list as I disliked the meetup.com communication tool and dislike googlegroups even more. > of PyLadies could explain it - just to educate all of us here > and me in particlar. I hope Anu's email was explanation enough. > My "isnt_that_odd" function of ladies.py was specifically written > to bring this point. Happy to see it hit the target. Anand, now you just come across as self-entitled and arrogant. The "if apology" not withstanding. > 2. Mission - It would be nice to educate us all in this list > about the goals of a separate organization for "ladies coding" > as apart from the general PSF umbrella. I am not misogynistic You have been a PSF member since 2010, so did you question the PSF when they gave a $10,000 grant to the Pyladies.com org? I'm curious because you want to know about the motives of a chapter. > in anyway, but in general I don't personally agree with > "woman coding" as a separate problem as opposed to "people > coding". I hope you raised these objections on the PSF mailing list too. -svaksha _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers