Improving diversity in XML Prague

You were in Prague, right? Why didn’t you present but John? Your’s is the only female author name I can see in the program.

1/2 Yes, fair point. Various reasons. The paper was primarily John's work. Mainly, I lack your confidence.

2/2 I've spoken at 2 other XML confs in the 3 years since I entered this field, only after much encouragement from my boss.

But even the long-bearded grey-haired men citing papers from the 70s don’t bite! Engineers are strange, not dangerous ;-)

If you have some standard answers for strange questions, you can only win! You did the work, you’re the expert.

A conference talk is neither an exam nor a job interview.

Yes, I should know this, My background is in mathematics. Thanks, these are precisely the reminders I need. I'll get there!

For my first talk at a big conf., I was the very first speaker and I hadn’t attended this conf. before. I was super nervous

But after the talk this big semanticist came and said he liked my talk and the topic. :)

In the end, its a matter of practice, the more you do, the more confident you get. Teaching helps, too. And vice versa.

Yup, XML London 2014 was the first XML conf I attended, Mike and I were first up for a joint presentation.

It went fine, but I'd much rather know my subject and audience better first. Then practice...

Speakers are getting full pass free. All of them.

on the other hand, we need to dramatically improve male/female speakers and attendees balance. Any tips are welcome! #xmlprague

And there’s student sponsoring from @letexml!

from @speedata too!

Wow, didn’t know that. Great and very unusual.https://twitter.com/jirkakosek/status/831502468987092993 …

@CerstinMahlow I propose a « Woman in TeX » topic at the preconference? #womenintech #xmlprague

What’s special about women in TeX? Better style? Nicer fonts?

Expenses? It's in Prague, off season.

Personally I'd much prefer visibility in the main conf, than being given another room.

Only if the talk is given by a man with an all male panel so I can laugh

I want to discuss & resolve now, then get on with XML topics

Just jotted down some thoughts on improving diversity at #xmlprague Comments welcome! https://gist.github.com/rdeltour/7a3d60fe5237ac21e52e45592dad2434 … @xmlprague

/cc @fbuehring @Debbie_Lockett @doctortovey @jirkakosek @innovimaxhttps://twitter.com/rdeltour/status/831600448704495617 …

Love love love this. Thank you again!! @xmlprague you can do it!

cool, thanks! you're more than welcome :-)

same here, thanks for this, looks very good! @xmlprague

thank you @rdeltour ! afaik there were about 30 women attendees (+ 4 women from the staff :)) at this year's #xmlprague conference.https://twitter.com/rdeltour/status/831600448704495617 …

you're welcome :-) I edited the doc with your numbers, thx!

This brave man took it upon himself to single-handedly fix gender diversity at #xmlprague!

not single-handedly, and far from fixed… we need everyone on board! @fbuehring @Debbie_Lockett @doctortovey

(but you know this already, since @letexml is doing great with diversity every year) @fbuehring @Debbie_Lockett @doctortovey

1/2 Am I too old or wrongly educated? When I see anti harassement statements or codes of conduct, I assume very bad things happened before.

2/2 I would assume organizers are welcoming and interested in all topics by default. Why should they exclude some people?

Last 2, speaker lineup sound good to me.

Shaming folks without disposable income is not okay. Especially not prospective and previously invited speakers.

I wasn't shaming anyone. Just pointing out that #xmlprague can be hardly more affordable. But there are still costs of course

I can’t think that @jirkakosek wrote it that way. But we hosted speakers in the past & will try again https://www.amu.cz/en