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Female-free speaker list causes PHP show to collapse when diversity-oriented devs jump ship
Under the heading, "Diversity Matters!" the website for the PHP Central Europe developer conference (PHP.CE) says, "PHP Central Europe Conference is committed to creating a conference that is as inclusive as possible."
Over the weekend, organizers of the conference, which had been scheduled for October 4-6 in Dresden, Germany, ended the event evermore after two scheduled speakers issued public statements that they would not be attending this year, citing concerns about the lack of diversity.
PHP.CE on Saturday posted a note on its website, stating "The conference has been cancelled and won't be continued*. Sorry for the inconvenience."
The asterisk points to three online posts as the reason for the decision. The first, a July 17 Tweet from Karl Hughes, CTO of educational consultancy The Graide Network, chastises the conference for a speaker list made up entirely of white men.
You can see how it was in 2018, including the list of speakers, presentation schedule, and a 9m41s "after-movie".
(Score: 1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @04:00AM (1 child)
Or maybe they couldn't use getting instrumented in other people's virtue signalling campaigns.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday August 28 2019, @03:01PM
You mean like posting this non-story so people can virtue signal about all that reverse sexism?
Because, of course, me deciding to not go somewhere is the exact same thing as someone being banned.