If you find yourself w an all-male conference lineup, ask for help. Something is wrong & it won't be a quick fix but the community can help.
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@aral your assuming that sex and ethnicity are the only preconditions for diverse thought process and I believe its all about the individual -
@1ens I believe you just defined ‘privilege’ :) -
@aral no I just defined individual liberty irrespective of what you are and where u came from! -
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@aral Basically what I meant with my tweets, indeed.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@aral ... the conferences are the symptoms. Fixing the problem needs to happen at the start of the pipe. More non-white-males in, more out. -
@aral Please note that I'm not defending the position of an all white male line-up. I agree it takes extra effort to recruit diversity.
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@aral ... so the conferences would naturally reflect the underlying industry they are targetting. The root problem is the industry itself ..Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@aral I'm guessing that the pool of available and willing speakers is likely to a representative subset of the total set of programmers ...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@aral Given that it's a programming conf, and the majority of programmers are white men (in my experience), this is the culture.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@aral do you consider yourself as 'white'?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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