NumFOCUS found I violated their Code of Conduct (CoC) at JupyterCon because my talk was not “kind”, because I said @joelgrus was “wrong”.

This sets a bad precedent.

Joel was not involved in NumFOCUS’s action, was not told about it, and did not support it
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The process has left me shattered, and I won& #39;t be accepting any more speaking invitations.

See the post above for details on what happened, including the full finding.

I& #39;ve re-recorded my talk - you can decide for yourself if it merited such an action. https://youtu.be/9Q6sLbz37gk ">https://youtu.be/9Q6sLbz37...

I& #39;m doing something I& #39;ve never done before, which is to restrict replies to this thread. I encourage open discussion, but I am left without the emotional energy to cope at this time, I& #39;m sorry.

If you wish to discuss it elsewhere, feel free, but please don& #39;t at-mention me, because I just want to move on.

I would rather not have to have written the post at all, but I didn& #39;t feel I had much choice.

Apologies in advance if I go quiet on twitter for a while.

Please also don& #39;t involve Joel in this - he& #39;s an innocent bystander. I at-mentioned him in this post because I wanted to set things straight from the outset. My guess is that if I didn& #39;t do so, then other people were likely to do so elsewhere anyway.

As I said in the talk and post, I think Joel is brilliant. I think he& #39;s an asset to the data science community. Just because I disagree with him about a rather niche technical programming issue, doesn& #39;t imply any kind of other negative feelings.

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