Do we know for sure these are shorter? I got an impression that he struggled with it, not that he intentionally created woman avatars to avoid inviting women. A

Do we know for sure these are shorter? I got an impression that he struggled with it, not that he intentionally created woman avatars to avoid inviting women. Assuming the latter for a conference organizer isn't less weird. If that's true, that is very undercover inclusivity sabotage on the verge of conspiracy. Simple desperation to get people there at all and to avoid going bankrupt in case he fails is much more plausible reason. Edit: I'm not sharing particular opinions itt if that matters. It's just the whole issue and these social requirements feel odd to me. By "got what they wanted" I meant exactly that: you put an artificial barrier that makes little sense and people will work around it under the best sense they can make of it. To pre-clarify on what "makes little sense", I think that the rules of these big speakers should be "X must be inclusive by advertising these criteria: <criteria>" instead of "X must have women". Quoting the linked HN thread up there: > we always struggled to get women from outside of Drupal to submit to that track, despite Drupal itself having a relatively large female population. We actively reached out to women both in the PHP community and local to the event and still sometimes had no submissions from women Seems you were saying "shorter lengths" with too much confidence.