Changes: Timeline of incidents

F.I.R.S.T. Robotics groping incident (Technology industry & education)
Debian mencal incident: longer developer discussion of usefullness of little tools to support women in menstrual period calculation

2003

Debconf ftp-masters talk

2004

2004 Debian elections
Ubuntu Warty visual theme
March: Debian IRC sexism
May (and ongoing): Ubuntero gendered name

2005

January: Lawrence Summers sexist remarks on women in science
Debian and LinuxChix harassment by MikeeUSA begins
(approximate date) Go Daddy's advertising begins on television, with an ad featuring Candice Michelle during the Super Bowl airing in 2005
Hostility to a GIMP bug reporter

2006

April:
- Slashdot "OMG Ponies" April Fool's Day joke [1]
- RapeLay released
July
- (year unknown, could be 2004 or 2005):Harassment/groping at San Diego Comic Con] (Reported in blog post July 2011) (Comic Book Fandom)
- Catamorphism's Wikipedia RfA (Wikipedia)
August: Harlan Ellison groping Connie Willis
September:
- Telsa Gwynne announces the closure of her diary and her withdrawal from Open Source, due to the unpleasant environment and online harassment among other factors.
- Hans Reiser's wife Nina is reported missing, he is charged with her murder in October
December: Acme::Playmate talk

2007

January:
- Reiser fans harrassing women at LCA2007
- Slender PMWiki "Female syntax" thread
March:
- Kathy Sierra incident
- Ubuntu-UK Code of Conduct incident
April:
- Web2.0 Expo Spock.com lingerie model slides
May:
August:
- "even included some wives" thread on Ubuntu Marketing
- Linux Journal blowjob ad round 2
September:
- LWN linked to an article about women in IT; a resulting, lengthy comment thread (content warning: cissexism and transphobia) ensued that centered around attacks on Perl developer Audrey Tang.
October:
- Puppy Linux death threats and massive resulting fail

2008

January: Dragonborn Boobs in D&D. Immense internet argument! (Gaming)
February: An Obstacle for Women in the IT Industry blog post (Technology industry)
April:
- Open Source Boob Project (Science Fiction Fandom))
- Zuckerberg interview incident (Technology industry)
- Hans Reiser is convicted of the murder of his wife, Nina.
May: Wiscon troll incident (Science Fiction Fandom)
July:
- Debian harassment receives press coverage (FLOSS)
- Planet Fedora up-skirting photo (FLOSS)
- RubyFringe offers girlfriend daycare (FLOSS)
- Linux Symposium 2008 closing talk (FLOSS)
- Fat Princess (Gaming)
- Hans Reiser admits to the murder of his wife, Nina, by revealing the location of her body
November:
December: Valleywag insults Pownce founder (Technology industry)

2009

February:
- Adobe talk at PHP UK (Technology industry, FLOSS)
- February 27: Scans_daily suspension (Comic Book Fandom)
- IT Security Girl of the Year (Technology industry)
March:
April: CouchDB talk (FLOSS)
May:
- Della computers (Technology industry)
- CeBIT booth babes (Technology industry)
June:
- Electronic Gaming Monthly replaced with Maxim (Gaming)
- Flashbelt slide show (Technology industry)
July:
- EMACS virgins joke (FLOSS)
- DEFCON comic strip incident (Hacker culture)
- This IS your father's Readercon (Science Fiction Fandom)
- Phoronix Foodstruments (FLOSS)
- Stonehenge OSCON parties (again) (FLOSS)
- RealmsFail and resulting Harlan Ellison backlash (Science Fiction Fandom)
- Game Boy Bondage (Gaming))
- EA booth babe bounty (Gaming)
August:
- Manthology incident (Science Fiction Fandom)
- FSF mini-summit on Women in Free Software announcement and LWN thread (FLOSS)
- SurveyFail (Media Fandom)
- Sony make phones for women (Technology industry)
September:
- Mark Shuttleworth at Linuxcon (FLOSS)
- (and ongoing) Geek feminism harassment by MikeeUSA
- Drupal og module accepts patch addressing gender binary language.
October:
November:
- AmazonLISAFail (Technology industry)
- DojoCon thongs (FLOSS)
December:
- Women underrepresented in Modern Science Writing (Science) [2]
- Brightkite using hot girls as bait (Technology industry) [3] [4]
- CrazyDomains Pamela Anderson advertisement (Technology industry)

2010

January
- Realms of Fantasy women's issue (SF fandom)
- #ubuntu-women logging proposal
- Russian commentary on Ubuntu Women leadership (FLOSS)

February
- Casecamp boobies incident (Technical conferences)
- PUSH N900 pole-dancing robots
- No women in horror [5] [6] (Fandom)
- Boagworld incident [7]

March
- South By Southwest groping & harrassment [8] [9] [10] (Technical conferences)
- Drupal.org gender discussions (FLOSS)

April
- Sexist "joke" in description of a "menstruation tracking" software package for the N900: Summary of incident (FLOSS)
- NodeOne Drupal card game ad (FLOSS)
- GenCon "Activities for the better half" icon (Roleplaying games)

May
- It's Time to Tell Mum campaign
- ASCII-Pinup-Girl @sigInt [1]

June
- Sexual assault at Southeast LinuxFest
- Groping at FOO Camp

July
- Zipper incident, part 2.
August
- Dries Drupalcon keynote reactions (FLOSS)
- Australia Tech Ed Meter Maids (Technical conferences)
- New Zealand Open Source Society Mailing list (FLOSS)
- First Dickwolves comic at Penny Arcade
- Adrianne Curry sexually assaulted at Star Wars Celebration V.

October
- Penny Arcade announces Dickwolves tshirts; Courtney Stanton announces Dickwolves Survivors Guild tshirts in protest

November
- Noirin Shirley ApacheCon incident

December
- Julian Assange arrest (for Sexual assault)

2011

January
- In a session at BarCamp San Diego 8, @SDGameGuy (Dan Melchione) demoed a Microsoft Kinect hack in which an volunteer appeared on a simulated green screen in front of an image of a strip club. (Technical conferences)
- Sexual and violent references and images in LCA 2011 Keynote (FLOSS)
- Rape apology on LCA mailing list (FLOSS)
- Dickwolves incident reaches its peak (Gaming)

February
March
- FreeBSD's man page misogyny (FLOSS)
- Hive76 in Philadelphia rejects Sex Toy Hacking Presentation - relocated to the Hacktory
May
- Sexist jokes at JSConf (Technical conferences)
- Tammy Camp banned from tech conference
June
- Elevatorgate - Incident at World Atheist Convention (Atheism/Skepticism)
- Lady had all support from local group for her event removed after rejecting advances from group leader (FLOSS) - UK
July
- Why Know Algorithms talk at OSCON (Technical conferences)
- Assault at OSCON (Technical conferences)
- Heartbreak & Heroines Kickstarter campaign (Gaming)
- Male-only Battlefield 3 LAN party (Gaming)
- The beginning of Nymwars via the Google+ name policy debate (Tech industry/Social networking)
August
- Opera software blatant objectification in advertising
September
- Sqoot posts a blog article that includes a photo of a topless woman : the blog post titled "Sqoot Goes Topless" was about the company's dedication to transparency and featured an image of a topless woman. The photo only showed the area between the womans shoulders and waist. (some time between March and September 2012, it appears that Sqoot has removed the photo).
- CSconsulting posts sexist posters on college campuses
October
- Adam Bien talk at JavaOne (Technical conferences)
- Paul Burton Talk at ExpressionEngine conference (Technical conferences)
- Grainger Games, sponsors of the Games Media Awards, upsets the proceeds with scantily-clad booth babes and dwarves, and leaves condoms on the attendees' tables. (Gaming)
- World Fantasy Con "Motorhead" harasser: http://jaymgates.com/misc/wfc-2011-creeper, http://secritcrush.livejournal.com/453187.html
November
- Image of women spread eagled, holding a gun, with a monitor with the letter "V" covering her genitals featured on blog post by Witold Rugowski , a free-lance Ruby programmer from Poland, about passing current id to model in Ruby on Rails. It was shown on RubyReflector but was taken down soon after. The image was still on Witold's personal blog linked above.
December
- Chaos Communications Congress 28 incidents
- Harassment on rAtheism

2012

January
- MikeeUSA harasses women FLOSS developers again.
- ConFoo was sponsored by the adult entertainment industry.
February
- Announcement of new subgroup Arch Women triggers furious discussion on main forums including this excerpted thread. (Broken link)
March
- The announcement for Sqoot's Boston API Jam lists women to fetch you beer amongst the "Great Perks" of attending.
- The founders of Geeklist react badly when a video that associates sexist imagery with their brand is reported to them.
- The VP of Path makes several sexist remarks during a presentation at SXSW.
- Tara Tiger Brown writes a Fake geek girls condemnation for Forbes.
April
- Melbourne coworking sexism: York Butter Factory, a Melbourne coworking space, makes a sexist tweet.
- Oatmeal comic on female gamers: Oatmeal made a comic implying "a terrible female gamer gets away with way more than a terrible male gamer".
- Mega Startup Bikinis: All-male team at Mega Startup Weekend makes presentation including gratuitous repeated image of women in bikinis. Chris Yeh, a presentation judge, speaks up and then blogs about it.
- Dell says shut up: Dell invites Mads Christensen to MC at a Dell-hosted customer and partner summit in Copenhagen in April. Christensen applauds the lack of women in IT and urges attendees to learn to say "Shut up, bitch!".
May
- Kleiner Perkins gender discrimination lawsuit: On May 10, 2012, Ellen Pao filed a gender discrimination suit against Kleiner Perkins. In the suit, she alleged that the firm has engaged in systematic discrimination against women by failing to promote them comparably to men, by compensating them less, and by failing to act upon sexual harassment complaints.
- NYT op ed on harassment: The NYTimes published an op ed on the suit that opened with the assertion that "Men invented the Internet." The article also claimed that sexual harassment is rare or nonexistent in Silicon Valley: "You don’t really hear about randiness and mistreatment of women."
- The 2012 atheist and skeptic harassment policies campaign begins, and with it, significant hostility to the idea of anti-harassment policies and the specific details of suggested policies.
- Sony releases sexist Playstation Vita ad in France
- Anita Sarkeesian of Feminist Frequency ran a Kickstarter for a video series analyzing gender roles in video games. Her accounts and those publicly supporting her were flooded with harassment, threats, and slurs, which persists to this day.
June
- On June 1, 2012, an all female singing group at the European Ruby Conference in Amsterdam were subjected to sexist abuse on Twitter. See blog post
- ASUS booth babe tweet
- Microsoft Azure Cloud Song: On June 7, 2012, Microsoft opened NDS 2012 with a song and a dance by female performer featuring lyrics ~approx"Micro and Soft are words that do not apply to my Penis", as well as mentioning names of various street drugs. YouTube video .
- Summercon Burlesque: On June 9, 2012, the SummerCon conference provided, as entertainment, female burlesque dancers. Blog post.
July
- "Beat Up Anita Sarkeesian" game is created, resulting in continuing Feminist Frequency Kickstarter backlash including harassment of Steph Guthrie who outed the game creator Ben Spurr.
- 0xB16B00B5/BIGBOOBS Constant in Microsoft Hyper-V: a Linux kernel contributor discovers that the constant used to identify a Linux Guest to the Hyper-V host is "0xB16B00B5"
- A Readercon attendee reports René Walling to the RC committee. They decide to ignore their zero tolerance policy and ban the offender for two years, citing the need to educate men in how to not harass women. (They later recanted and enforced the policy.)
- Geek feminist harassment at OSCON: several OSCON attendees report harassment by (self-described) members of the geek feminist community.
- An offensive tweet was made against the PyLadies group at EuroPython 2012. Lynn Root (a keynote speaker and founder of PyLadies) blogged twice about the incident.
- Daniel Tosh makes a series of rape jokes at the Laugh Factory
- Joe Peacock writes a Fake geek girls condemnation for a CNN blog
August
- Video game Borderlands 2 announces its girlfriend mode, an easy mode assumed to be for girlfriends of assumed-male-assumed-het gamers.
- Twitter user MisterE2009 harasses women in comics. Comics Creator Mark Millar responds.
- Dragon*Con bans Backup ribbons
- Steubenville High School rape case
September
- A woman was sexually assaulted during Notch (of Mojang/Minecraft fame)'s party in Seattle, the same weekend as Penny Arcade Expo (PAX). Venue security staff dismissed her complaint.
- TechEd New Zealand - Groping at "Tech Fest" party.
- Sponsor at the Ohio LinuxFest tries to hand out swag with sexually oriented language.
October
- An Enforcer (volunteer and peace-keeper) at gaming con PAX publicly discloses that another Enforcer was removed from his role due to sexual harassment and assault of other Enforcers. [11]
- the Libre Office en Español Facebook group posted images to promote their products with implicit reference to sexual contents
November
- BritRuby 2013 is canceled after being called out on an all-white-male speaker lineup. (Commentary from Lindsey Bieda and Avdi.)
December
- Chaos Communications Congress 29 incidents
Feminist Frequency

2013

January
- Heavily sexualized ad for Voco voice control products emailed to CES attendees, along with sexual innuendo in public press release. (Commentary from AdRants here.)
- "Edge" conference criticised for all-male speaker lineup. Rebecca J. Rosen mentioned the conference in a call for men to boycott all-male conference panels.
- Alex Diavatis, writing for WorldOfGnome.org, wrote a post about Fedora 18 that included commentary about how Fedora 18 is easy enough for 'ugly girlfriends' to use without their boyfriends' help. The paragraph was later removed after complaints in the comments. Using girlfriend/mother to mean 'technical layman' is sexist.
- SexyPHP , a self-published book by C. A. Collins, published to Kindle via BookBaby.com
- Women in Makerspaces, the "e-textiles" post and discussion on a hackerspaces.org list. There was a very funny dramatic reading of the e-textiles post by Rory Marinich.
- Cory Doctorow finds the company Rapiscan, that makes TSA body scanners, funny because it could be pronounced like "rape" .

February
- LCA2013 shirtgate
- "Hack of the Sexes", billed as a "civic hackathon pinning the boys against the girls" as well as a "contest to promote innovative solutions to civic problems from the technology and entrepreneurship community in Kansas City", was announced.
- An event in Nashville, Tennessee in the US, "Spark Nashville", announced itself as featuring "entrepreneurial and tech community patriarchs". In an extensive thread on Twitter, Jared Scheel defended the usage of the term "patriarch" and dismissed women's concerns about it as "petty" and "legalistic".
- Web and PHP Magazine at PHP UK 2013 hands out shirts with the legend "Enhance your PHPness" on them (playing on the double entendre of PHPness/Penis), leading to an outcry of institutional sexism. Others defend it as a joke. Web and PHP Magazine issue a statement denying sexist intent.

March
- PyCon 2013 forking and dongles incident
- PyCon 2013 expulsion incident
- Shawn L's expulsion from hackerspaces
- Yvonne Brill's NYT obituary
- Onyx Healthcare hires Playboy model for HIMSS13 booth exibit
- RPG Camp Kickstarter trolling
- Sexist SXSWi wristbands at MIT Media Lab party
- Virool launch party YC startup hires women in lingerie for "nerd party"
- [Venture Beat article on women in tech] (good article, interviews CEOs, discusses various problems)
- Tropes vs. Men in Videogames Kickstarter
- PAX cosplay interview backlash - A cosplayer at PAX, Megan Marie, blogged "What would you do if you weren't afraid" in response to a sexist interviewer. She then got quite a lot of backlash.
- IDGA Party dancers at Games Developer Conference. Yetizen hired gogo-dancers and topless models.

April
- Locus Online Burqa article: http://ktempest.tumblr.com/post/46879615083/trigger-warning-islamophobia-fat-shaming-other

May
- Pouet logo incident
- CONFidence 2013 assault

June

July
- Linux kernel civility discussion
- Women Who Kick Ass San Diego ComicCon panel. Great panel, sexist backlash.
- Anime Expo hidden camera - http://dancingwithscissors.tumblr.com/post/55464547361/judgementscythe-credit-to-whoever-is-in-charge

August
- DEFCON 21 incidents
- Skeptic harassment revelations 2013
- @elevatorgate harassment
- Jennifer Hepler, formerly a senior writer at BioWare, reports that Dragon Age players sent her abusive emails and forum posts, threatening phone calls, and "graphic threats" against her children.
- Software Developer David Winer of Scripting News writes a post titled "Why Are There So Few Women Developers?" in which he concludes that it's because programming takes patience and focus, like hunting.
September
- TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon incident A team at TechCrunch Disrupt 2013 presents the TitStare app, which allows users to post and view pictures of men staring at people's cleavage. Another presenter pretended to masturbate on stage. TechCrunch apologized for the incidents. In response, Pax Dickinson , CTO of Business Insider, expressed his disapproval of feminism in tech; he resigned the following day.
- Mike Krahulic of Penny Arcade at PAX Prime 2013, during an on-stage interview where was asked what he felt was the company's biggest mistake, said it was pulling the Dickwolves shirts from the online store. This refusal to understand how the shirts were problematic reignited the controversy.
- Yukihiro Matsumoto, aka Matz, chief designer of the Ruby programming language criticized the efforts of RubyConf to correct for discrimination in speaker selection, characterized it as “reverse discrimination” and insisted, “We have RailsGirls instead.”
- Michael Schwern, prominent Perl developer, arrested on domestic violence charges
- An unidentified panelist representing Jamernot at a Technori event referred to two female presenters as “Hot girls in yoga pants.” An attendee submitted an objection online to the panel but his post was deleted by Technori moderators, so he stood up and objected verbally. The Jamernot rep responded , “That’s how the world is,” and subsequently tweeted in his defense .
- Fraser Millward, an entertainer hired by Microsoft to host an Xbox One event at Eurogamer Expo 2013, harassed and misgendered a woman self-identified as transgender on stage. She subsequently wrote about the online threats she received in retaliation for her speaking out.
- Anand Pillai created ladies.py, a code repo mocking PyLadies.

October
- Codemash sexual assault
- standingwithDNLee Biologist and science writer Dr. Danielle N. Lee responded to being called a "whore" after politely declining to write for free. The Scientific American blog network removed her blog post about it without consulting her, with the excuse that it "verged into the personal."
- Reports of harassment of Scientific American bloggers by editor Bora Zivkovic surfaced around a year ago, but in October 2013 several women wrote in public naming him and describing his patterns of bad behavior.
- SF hacker group advertises "Hackers and Hookers " costume party. When called on it, they issue a classic non-apology (both advertisement and apology archived at link).
- Kent James, a core reviewer for the open-source Thunderbird project, wrote a blog post with the subject line "Real Men do Build Engineering". Despite knowing that this was sexist (the original post included the question, "So, are there any Real Men out there (or even Real Women) that want to be a hero, and save our project?"), in a comment, James stated "I decided to remove comments that disputed my use of the term 'Real Men'." (In an example of the Many bad things in the world silencing tactic, he implied that it was acceptable for him to insinuate that men are more likely to understand build engineering than women are because an organization exists that uses the term "real men" and claims to fight domestic violence.)
- At the ACM CIKM 2013 conference, a presenter showed a slide (photo) with the text "Big data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it... (Dan Ariely)" The conference did not have an anti-harassment policy posted on its web site.

November
- Several women go public with accounts of sexual harassment by Brian Wood, an influential comics writer.
- It's Okay to be Smart video
- libuv gendered pronouns patch dispute

December
- http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/12/07/aki-con-cosplayer-assaulted/
- Twitter Blockgate
- Zoe Quinnzel / DepressionQuest harassment
- C Plus Equality code repository and impersonations (Feminist Software Foundation trolls continue)
- Paul Graham claims women have not been hacking for the past ten years, and he wouldn't know how to get a teenaged girl interested in computers.
- The illustration of an artificial servant girl with a broom appears on the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence Journal, which sparks a sexism row.

2014

January
- Microsoft Dear Azure campaign
- This is what it's like to be a woman at a Bitcoin meetup Two women attend a bitcoin meetup and are immediately groped, propositioned, and insulted
- Games reporter Josh Mattingly sexually harasses story lead
- NBC Sports affiliate editor Dustin Hennessey assaults two women at Arisia Con in Boston, MA The Code of Conduct policy empowered one of the women to report the incident and resolve the situation.
- Dana McCallum rape arrest

February
- "Girls and software" article published in Linux Journal magazine.
- Male Champions of Change event

March
- "The Dating Ring", a Y-Combinator funded startup, organizes a crowdfunding campaign to fly single women from NYC to San Francisco to meet men.
- Julie Ann Horvath quit GitHub
- GAME_JAM walk out
April
- Gurbaksh Chahal domestic violence conviction
- CodeBabes.com
- Cherry City Comic Con shames a woman for requesting a refund because she felt she would not be safe at the con.
May
- Booth babes make an appearance at the EMCWorld conference
- Django primary-replica terminology patch dispute

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 ** [[Twitter Blockgate]]
 ** [http://indiestatik.com/2013/12/13/female-game-developers/ Zoe Quinnzel / DepressionQuest harassment]
-** [[C Plus Equality]] code repository and impersonations
+** [[C Plus Equality]] code repository and impersonations ([[Feminist Software Foundation]] trolls continue)
 ** [http://valleywag.gawker.com/paul-graham-says-women-havent-been-hacking-for-the-pa-1490581236 Paul Graham claims] women have not been hacking for the past ten years, and he wouldn't know how to get a teenaged girl interested in computers.
 ** [http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/%E5%AD%A6%E4%BC%9A%E8%AA%8C%E5%90%8D%E3%81%AE%E5%A4%89%E6%9B%B4%E3%81%A8%E6%96%B0%E3%81%97%E3%81%84%E8%A1%A8%E7%B4%99%E3%83%87%E3%82%B6%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%81%AE%E3%81%8A%E7%9F%A5%E3%82%89%E3%81%9B/ The illustration of an artificial servant girl] with a broom appears on [http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/en the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence] Journal, which [http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-25680951 sparks a sexism row].