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Pycon this year -> outreach and encouragement -> 20% of attendees were women: http://www.forbes.com/sites/women2/2013/04/09/record-number-of-women-give-tech-tal
by anthonyb 13y ago
Pycon this year -> outreach and encouragement -> 20% of attendees were women: http://www.forbes.com/sites/women2/2013/04/09/record-number-of-women-give-tech-talks-at-pycon-2013/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/women2/2013/04/09/record-number-...
- pifflesnort 13y agoIf by "outreach and encouragement" you mean outright subsidizing the trip for a specific target gender. Did this actually improve the technical content of the conference, or did it simply redefine the objective measure by which PyCon determines "success" to include non-technical metrics? The latter seems to be the case, in which case, it's not a particularly valuable stratagem for a merit-focused technical conference.