speaker line-up now up yowconference.com/lambdajam/
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This is a crap effort. I would expect you to do better, especially after all the work the programming community has been doing of late to increase diversity.
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Hey Ryan, we can absolutely agree that the result is crap, but I know Jed put in a shit ton of effort to do better.
Yow is also always looking to do more, we have run many programs to increase diversity in both speaker *and* attendees. That has worked very well for the main ones
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YOW, especially LambdaJam, looks very much at the bottom xxtechconfspeakers.org
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FP definitely has a perception problem. We were asked recently by a work experience Uni student if someone was making us use Haskell as opposed to Python or something else - she was a maths student.
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Ouch!
But yeah, agreed, FP in general has a massive perception problem. And to be fair, most of that is rather justified.
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Painting any large group, including "the FP community" with one big brush is not good. FP is heterogenous in ideas approach, location and culture. So I think it's quite unjustified to just throw out vague stabs at "FP in general."
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There are lots of compounding issues with FP, but yeah, I did like the article that posted here: twitter.com/andrewfnewman/ - feel like there might be something to the comparison with the issues in physics.
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I mention Physics because of the work done symmetrymagazine.org/article/rewiri and how the fixed mindset afflicts both FP and physics. I haven't seen the same work in FP.
I really think we could do a better job of promoting and teaching the foundations of CS and programming to people of diverse background - not _just_ FP. I really feel like this stuff deserves to be shared, and we should be empowering more people to feel like they can learn it.
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