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This is a nice example but I doubt this skill is transferrable, and anyway I don't think ruining a conference will make anybody happier. Barring a few trolls wh
by guard-of-terra 14y ago
This is a nice example but I doubt this skill is transferrable, and anyway I don't think ruining a conference will make anybody happier. Barring a few trolls who didn't care much about Ruby in the first place.
- mjg59 14y agoThe person who originally complained about the speaker lineup on Twitter is an organiser of the Golden Gate Ruby Conference. That conference successfully attracted a far more mixed speaker demographic. Are you implying that he was attempting to ruin the conference?
- guard-of-terra 14y agoWell, that's what he did cause. So now he is an organiser of one conference and the ruiner (not sure English has this word) of another one. Maybe he didn't mean to. But maybe guys at the British conference didn't mean anything either.
- youngtaff 14y agoTo me much of this whole thing boils down to differences between the UK and the US and there respective approaches to equal opportunities and affirmative action. Similar factors were are play in the reaction to Faruk's .net article and Laura Sanders response. The US approach to diversity and equal opportunities isn't right for everyone and some people perhaps need to remember that.