On 2015-07-10, beliav...@aol.com <beliav...@aol.com> wrote: > On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 2:58:18 PM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:01 PM, beliavsky--- via Python-list >> <python-list@python.org> wrote: >> > On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 7:21:14 AM UTC-4, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> >> With Mandy Waite we have announced all keynotes for EuroPython 2015: >> >> 5 keynotes, 6 speakers, 4 women and 2 men. >> > >> > Your mentioning these numbers makes me wonder if the organizing >> > committee is using gender preferences in its selection of keynote >> > speakers. I hope not. It is better to choose the speakers who >> > will give the most interesting talks and let the demographic >> > chips fall where they may. >> >> I think that's more a matter of having the statistically-curious >> brain. In my father's family, there are 5 sons and 2 daughters - does >> that indicate gender preference in my reporting, or just an >> acknowledgement of a fact? > > If 80% of Python programmers and potential speakers at a Python > conference are male, the chance of 4 out 6 speakers being female is > fairly low if gender is ignored. Some people think gender diversity > in tech is so important that there should be gender preferences -- > see for example this post by a Python blogger > http://ilovesymposia.com/2015/04/03/calling-out-scipy-on-diversity/ > . It is plausible that the organizers preferred female keynote > speakers.
I certainly hope they did, and applaud them if so. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
