what you're doing has a term: character assassination. please take it elsewhere. there are plenty of forums to air your grievances.
On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 11:31 PM Space A. <reexist...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Another funny thing and I'm glad that you mentioned, is that "Woman Who Go" > and other known "non-google" initiatives, as you said, were founded or > co-founded by "developer advocate" Ashley McNamara. I don't know what kind of > contract or collaboration, or relations she had with Google or Google > employees, but she was quite "official" I would say, on all these > conferences. Now, she works for Microsoft. She also created and promoted own > printshop with Go-related merch with help of official Go community channels: > conferences, social networks, slack, etc. So, the interesting thing is that > in the post in Go blog it was claimed that 100% of money from new "official" > store will go to so-called non-profit org "GoBridge": > https://github.com/gobridge/about-us > which is also seems to be founded or co-founded by her, along with other > existing Google and (perhaps some of the) ex-Google employees: > https://github.com/gobridge/about-us#leadership-team > Ashley McNamara name there on the first place. > > You can Google a lot with her name and "GoBridge", "Woman Who Go" and other > keywords. For example here is her Patreon where she collects donations for > Go-related artworks, and also mentions that "Woman Who Go" and "GoBridge" are > being merged: https://www.patreon.com/posts/women-who-go-24864094 > > So all money will still go to that same project but now with promotion made > on very top level, in official Go Programming Language blog. Even if that org > is true and registered "non-profit" org, I suspect it still pays salaries and > give contracts to sub-contractors. I tried to find any financial reports and > proofs or evidence of real actions taken, but all I found is some very > general stuff. At least it very suspicious. I don't believe that Google can't > fund such a non-profit initiative without affecting true artists. > > And apparently, very unlikely, that you paid a cent to any independent artist > over that years. > > > > On Friday, July 19, 2019 at 6:13:26 AM UTC+3, andrey mirtchovski wrote: >> >> really? throughout the years (and I've been here since the beginning) >> i have spent infinitely more on non-google "go" merch than on google >> go merch: stickers, t-shirts, campaigns supporting women who code, >> etc, etc. >> >> come on. get off your high horse. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/39fb6e76-6acb-4470-b249-bcb202580d45%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAK4xykXes7KZfC939kzUkTrZivhqXhV3fv9PP4bHoSM-1EqM4A%40mail.gmail.com.
