I'm sorry WHAT and none of you told me?????
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I'm sorry WHAT and none of you told me?????
Position ENTIRELY reversed on Python. Literally going to learn it now. Call me pythonista Cat. I am so serious. WHAT.
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Wow actually so emotional about this because every time my wife goes to a conference even though she masks, she books an extra couple of nights away from me to be extra safe because of my high risk status. It is exhausting and expensive and always makes us miserable and sad. To imagine a conf we could conceivably even BOTH go to and just not shoulder the burden of being the only people masking would be a completely different experience.
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@grimalkina The python community has been awesome in this regard.
I do think some of this is because of @phpledge which has some conferences and speakers considering Public Health as an important factor in a healthy community.
Some of us are missing from your public spaces . No public health policy is a major reason why.
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@onepict @phpledge totally. I have covid/public health safety and ventilation called out as a criteria on my speaker page and always ask every organizer about it. But I've felt very pressured and gate kept from professional opportunities about it and punished for raising the issue, and as a high risk person in this world you can't always blow your entire spoons budget or keep risking your livelihood over it.
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@grimalkina @phpledge I wish more conferences would consider this.
Including various @EC_NGI events that also don't have codes of conduct.
You can't build a diverse secure ecosystem of professionals if you don't want to put the effort into making it safe for that community to attend.
Who's voices are you ignoring? How unsafe down the line do you make it for yourself and your projects in the future.
It's nice US and Canada events are starting to do so. Be nicer if more European folks did.
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@grimalkina But it is gatekeeping, and I do know it's affecting my career and my opportunities.
Plus calling it out also does it. So it's great you do ask for those considerations on your speakers page.
I don't think advocating for your health is a bad thing to ask for.
I wish others saw it that way. But the more of us who do so, despite the cost, the more we normalise this idea.
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@grimalkina it is lovely. Everyone here is wonderful. Masks. Everything about this event telegraphs that the @pycon cares deeply about the well-being of their attendees.
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