On 24 April 2012 16:14, Daniele Procida <dani...@vurt.org> wrote: > I was looking at <http://2012.djangocon.eu/schedule/> again with excited > anticipation, and reading through the talk summaries. > > <http://2012.djangocon.eu/schedule/involving-women-in-the-community/> - and > then I had a closer look at the names of this year's speakers. > > There are *two* women out of the 24 or so speakers listed, and only one is > doing a solo talk.
More generally, I would have liked to go to EuroPythonCon both this year and last year but from experience I don't deal with hot and humid weather very well so it's out of the question. More specifically, when the base percentage of programmers vs. non-programmers being different in the two sexes (this is also depends on class and culture) is multiplied with the base percentage of open-source programmers vs. non-open source programmers you will end up with four different groups generally in four different sizes (Bayes theorem!). We know that male programmers outnumber female programmers. If non-open-source programmers outnumber open source programmers then the group "female open-source programmer" is likely to be the smallest group. You can then set up a new test with "female programmers" vs. "male programmers" and "programmers that visit techie cons" vs. "programmers not visiting techie cons". The group "female open-source programmer that visit techie cons" will have fewer members than "female open-source programmers". You get the idea. It might be that running those numbers will explain the low number of "female open-source programmer that visit techie cons that also are of interest to you" all by itself, no conspiracy required. You get more women in by changing the weights in *any* of the tests: more programmers, more female programmers, more open source programmers, more programmers visiting techie cons etc. It adds up. So: you have this wee group of potential "female open-source programmer that visit techie cons that also are of interest to you". Then, and only then can you start to look at con-specific or language-specific tests that the community can directly do something with: "bro"grammers, strip shows, excessive drinking and pressure to drink (rumored to be a problem at Java Script venues), rock star behavior (ruby?), specific idiots that should never have been left out of the asylum and ruins it for everyone etc. I haven't heard any rumors of stupid behavior among pythoneers or at python cons though so it might just be that "female open-source (python and django) programmer that visit techie cons that also are of interest to you" is a very small group. HM, member of "open source programmers that don't get a paid trip to visit techie cons that often and can't function very well in hot climates" -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
