This is an awesome way for github to help solve the "women not speaking at conferences" problem -- there are qualified female engineers who have built things, b

This is an awesome way for github to help solve the "women not speaking at conferences" problem -- there are qualified female engineers who have built things, but they tend to not be comfortable presenting, so you end up with a very small number of female speakers who get invited to speak at every event, and who thus turn down a lot of things. (The other stage in the funnel which needs work is the "going into engineering" stage, but that's much earlier.) The other stage to help out would be someone covering travel expenses/etc. for the pool of qualified and willing female speakers to attend events they otherwise might not. I wonder if any tech companies would contribute to that.