o.O Can I ask you, do you represent Fosdem at all?
On Saturday 06 December 2014 18.22.45 Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > John, > > You couldn't be more wrong. > > I have been organizing the Desktops DevRoom for the last 4-5 years (cannot > really remember), so I can speak from reality. > > There is no discrimination against women in FOSDEM. It's just they do not > submit talk proposals. Simple as that. E. g. this year we have only had one > talk proposal from a woman and I had to chase her! In the very few cases > where they do submit talks, more often than not when you tell them "you've > got your slot" the answer will be "oh, I won't be attending, I need more > time to plan". Well, sorry but everybody is notified of > acceptance/rejection with exactly the same amount of time (4-6 weeks) due > to the timeframe FOSDEM manages. If men can come, why can't women? (we do > also have some rejections from men due to too-late notice but it's less > frequent). > > People are overreacting with these CoC's (or lack of). For some reason, and > it's not discrimination of any kind, women are by far not interested in > technology and engineering. In the same way they are by far more interested > in Nursery, Medicine, Psychology, Marketing & Advertising, etc than men. Is > there a CoC about men for Nursery or Midwife conventions? I don't think so. > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 2:21 AM, John Layt <jl...@kde.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just a heads-up that I will not be attending FOSDEM next year and will > > not be assisting in any way with preparations for FOSDEM or providing > > any hardware. This is the result of the FOSDEM organisers refusing to > > institute a proper Code of Conduct for attendees or to take any other > > steps in addressing the dreadful gender ratio of speakers on their > > program or attending the conference itself. I have attempted to > > discuss these issues with them and found their attitude and beliefs > > completely unacceptable to me. As such I cannot give them any form of > > support, and sadly that means not helping the KDE community at this > > event anymore. > > > > John. > > _______________________________________________ > > kde-community mailing list > > kde-community@kde.org > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community