So, nowadays if a tech community puts together an event, they had better call it a gathering, a tech meet, maybe coffee code & cookies, basically anything but c

So, nowadays if a tech community puts together an event, they had better call it a gathering, a tech meet, maybe coffee code & cookies, basically anything but conference. Because once you have a conference you have to deal with feminist dogmatic gynosaurs, ducks, bloggers, community backlash, mainstream print filling their idle pages with judgement on your efforts, and basically a regret for even thinking of doing something good in the first place.