[python-committers] Would anyone STOP contributing to Python if we used GitHub?

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Tue Dec 15 16:06:25 EST 2015


On 12/15/2015 12:59 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Dec 15, 2015, at 12:41 PM, Senthil Kumaran wrote:
>
>> If we have doubts on the culture of the company, it may be a good idea to
>> talk directly to their public relations department or an informal chat with
>> women who currently work at Github and get a firsthand view of the place and
>> not be biased with reports in media, especially the old ones.
>
> Jono Bacon, a former colleague of mine and former Ubuntu Community Manager is
> now Director of Community at GitHub.  I'd be happy to reach out to him with
> any of our concerns in this regard.

I don't know what other concerns there might be, but I think it would be 
good to collect them and ask Jono about them.  If past issues have 
changed for the better then the more who know the better; likewise, if 
there are still issues we should be cognizant of them.

--
~Ethan~



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