It may be a solution to open an issue on this topic. https://github.com/bridgefoundry/bridgefoundry.github.io/issues/new
On Friday, 19 July 2019 07:31:43 UTC+2, Space A. 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/db3cc499-68d4-4f4c-97dc-4bb1b9800aac%40googlegroups.com.
