If you want a quick code of conduct, check out the one that PyCon US used this year. They borrowed it from another advocacy group, I believe, so it's becoming pretty standard.
Katie On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Jonas Obrist <ojiido...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm one of the organizers of DjangoCon Europe 2012 and as Daniele pointed > out, it made me sad when seeing the amount of women that submitted a talk. > While we have no statistics of a gender breakdown for the tickets sold so > far, just glancing at the list of names makes me sad. > > I wonder how much of this is just bad organizing and communication from our > part, and how much it is because there are less women in the Django > community than men (if that's even the case). On that note, thanks for > giving your views on this topic everyone. > > I will see which suggestions we can still implement for DjangoCon Europe and > if you have any more suggestions, please feel free to contact me directly at > ojiido...@gmail.com, as I often forget to check mailing lists. > > We'll publish a code of conduct soon, the reason why this was not done yet > is because I naively thought that it is unnecessary, as > everything usually mentioned in a code of conduct is covered by Swiss law > anyway (especially discrimination). > > Jonas Obrist > > > On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 8:28:07 PM UTC+2, Katie Cunningham wrote: >> >> If you want to get more women to a conference, a few things have been >> successful on this side of the pond: >> >> - Scholarships set aside for female attendees >> - Specifically invite potential female speakers to talk, or at least >> submit a talk >> - Reach out to women-based tech groups, and make sure they know about >> the conference >> - Talk to females that are already attending, and see if they can share a >> room >> - Encourage sponsors to sponsor costs for a female attendee. >> - Have a code of conduct that is public, explicit, and enforced. >> >> Even doing the scholarships for a few spots shows that your conference >> shows that you're serious about women attending. I don't know, when >> looking into a conference, whether your conference is going to be one >> where I'm going to get cat-called or one where I'm going to feel >> completely at home. >> >> Katie Cunningham > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/KCWMuExf0n8J. > > 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. -- 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.
