I'll bet you a full Bitcoin that there's a negative correlation between the folks who can afford a £200+ ticket to a tech conference vs the folks who are actually doing interesting things in tech.
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I'll bet you a full Bitcoin that there's a negative correlation between the folks who can afford a £200+ ticket to a tech conference vs the folks who are actually doing interesting things in tech.
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Cariad 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️replied to Cariad 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ last edited by
I once knew a tech event organiser who said he wanted more minority rep at his events, but no-one ever applied for the financial aid.
My brothers in tech: no-one applies for your financial aid because you're making us write essays to explain why we should get the money rather than anyone else. "Explain your poverty"? Fuck you.
I don't know a single person who'd claim to be the most in need in a room full of people in need. Solidarity isn't a dirty word in my world.
Until something changes, you're never going to get the most interesting people at your events, and the wealthy will continue to network and hire the wealthy.
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Plus no Code of Conduct, often.
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Cariad 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️replied to Cariad 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ last edited by
Mind you, this is the same guy who I promised, heart and soul, that I would promote the fuck out of his events if he ever booted out the psychopath who posted threats to break trans womens' legs.
Mumble mumble, he's a good guy really, mumble mumble.
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@cariad Relatedly, it's always slightly baffling to me how so many of the guys (it's almost always guys) who claim to want more minority rep, consistently question everything minorities tell them in how they should go about it.
Like, dude, if you actually knew how to solve this problem yourself, would you still be having it?
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@akareilly Ooh, you know what's worse? When they have a CoC, but it doesn't apply because "you could just talk to him so we don't need to make it official".
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Agreed. Better to know ahead of time that organisers don't care, so the event can be avoided.
"Code of Conduct but known abusive person is invited" is also way too common.
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@joepie91 Right! Down here, it's "we'd love to attract more women to our events, but our survey said the rape jokes make them uncomfortable" or "we'd love to make the tickets more affordable, but our guest speaker cost us a couple of grand, plus their travel and hotel, so…"
(And I believe that was the year that the "guest speaker" presented a slideshow of clouds that look like penises. Y'know. At a tech conference.)
I'm absolutely raging against these folks' disinterest in obvious solutions!
