On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Charles Schweik <cschw...@pubpol.umass.edu> wrote: > By asking Jeff about it offline, I was raising the question that those > slides could turn some women off who are considering attending and I think > those kinds of signals are moving the community the wrong direction, and > that perhaps the author should consider this. I raised this because I have > been in conferences where I've witnessed women being offended by things > happening on stage and I think as a community we want to be sensitive to > this since we are hopeful for more women to become engaged in FOSS4G. > > From my eye going through the slides, I didn't understand (and still don't) > why zoom in on the Dali image needed to be on the slideshow. After a more > careful examination -- that other viewers won't likely do -- I see that the > first slide is an enlargement of part of that painting and then a second > picture of it hanging in some building, under the group heading of 'Seoul is > far away.' I still don't get why the enlargement is needed... but perhaps > that is just me. But I think I am still right -- some women might be turned > off to the conference by that zoom-in.
Sorry for being to much direct on this. A man, thinking as a man, thinking on what a woman, thinking as a woman, could-possibly-may-be-in-some-case found something offensive. May be I'm also a Wester-Europen-Liberal-Minded (as Gert-Jan stated) but I don't get the point of someone in Massachusetts «patrolling» the thoughts of other woman, and we're not even discussing here a cultural difference, just a genre difference. Sorry, again, but I don't get it. -- Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses Valencia (España) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss