[Sigia-l] Death threats?

[Patrick Grizzard]

This is a fairly comprehensive overview of the whole sordid affair:

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/04/kathysierra



On Aug 6, 2007, at 4:39 PM, Will Parker wrote:

> On Aug 6, 2007, at 12:17 PM, Rich Rogan wrote:
>
>> What the heck are you talking about?
>>
>> This is pretty out of context, where's the original post?
>
> Ummm. Might the phrase "On Aug 5, 2007, at 4:13 PM, Stephen Collins
> wrote" provide a clue?
>
> I won't repeat Stephen's post, but the title is
>
> 	Re: [Sigia-l] (event) Workshop: "The Taming of the New - Larry
> Keeley on Innovation"
> 		Tuesday, Sept. 18, Seattle
>
>> Why would someone receive death threats due to their proposed
>> methodology?
>
> I really don't know, but since I live in Seattle, I would very much
> like to find out why any speaker at that conference might have
> received death threats. That's why I sent the email to Stephen and
> the Sigia list. I decided to change the thread name, since it's
> clearly a different topic than the workshop itself.
>
> I suppose we'll find out when Stephen decides that we need to know.
>
>> On 8/6/07, Will Parker <wparker at channelingdesign.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 5, 2007, at 4:13 PM, Stephen Collins wrote:
>>>> She spoke at GOVIS as a replacement for Kathy Sierra who didn't
>>>> attend after receiving death threats.
>>>
>>> I understand being passionate about design methodologies, but this
>>> seems a mite excessive.
>
> - Will
>
> Will Parker
> wparker at ChannelingDesign.com
>
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