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For a single case study, see what happened with speaker selection for GitHub ElectronConf. After gender-blinding their process, they found they had too many men
by greenshackle2 9y ago
For a single case study, see what happened with speaker selection for GitHub ElectronConf. After gender-blinding their process, they found they had too many men to their liking, so they re-did the process to have a more pro-woman bias.
(But I don't think this is indicative of the industry as a whole.)
- ghaff 9y agoWith conferences specifically, if you don't make specific efforts to get more diversity (across any axes you care to name) generally, you may (probably will) end up with neither the range of perspectives or topics you'd like. This isn't limited to gender by the way. At many conferences, it means you end up with too many vendors pitching their wares (because that's their job) and fewer customers who actually use products.