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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: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @04:17AM (2 children)
Looking at the 2018 site, there seems to be only one female on the schedule ("Agata") running a game session. I guess nobody decided to virtue signal for diversity then?
Probably all of the speakers were white. Horrible. But some of the lectures were given in Czech. Does that count for a few diversity points? Or do only criteria used in American woke discourse matter?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @10:05AM (1 child)
The conference
iswas being held in Germany. So try to pull your head out of your ass long enough to look at a map and stop blaming this on Americans.(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Wednesday August 28 2019, @02:34PM
Who will be laughing when Trump buys Germany?
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