On Wed, Apr 25, 2012, Hanne Moa <hanne....@gmail.com> wrote: >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.
>> There are *two* women out of the 24 or so speakers listed, and only >one is doing a solo talk. >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. The Python/Django culture just isn't like that. The days and evenings I spent at DjangoCon in Amsterdam last year were in the company of pleasant, courteous and friendly people. I wasn't entirely sure what to expect before I went, but I didn't imagine there'd be strippers and heavy drinking - is that usual? Or what people expect, and are put off by? >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. It clearly is a very small group. The question is, why so small, and what, if anything, to do to address it. Daniele -- 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.
