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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) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @11:54AM (1 child)
Maybe, just maybe, most women don't want to be programmers. Ever thought of that?
Did you talk to a bunch? They all said we'd be all into technology and computers if it wasn't for those stinky white men who sexually harass us all the time? I doubt it. Women can get harassed in any endeavor they take up, its kind of a thing, just recently on the way out. They know how to deal with that stuff and try to squash it in activities they've wanted to do.
So we've got a triple problem here. A woman would have to want to code PHP specifically, want to speak at a conference and have the means and desire to go to Germany to do it. That's a pretty narrow set of requirements.
You know who likes to do that kind of thing, white boy nerds. Not Indian coders, not women, except maybe trans women who were once.... white boy nerds.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @12:01PM
As above [ncwit.org]. Thanks.