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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, @01:07PM
Oh FFS. Here we go again. I'll type slowly so you can keep up: public opinions and cultural preferences are not laws. You wrote an awful lot of nothing based on your false narrative.
Stop trying to be a victim just because other people may be seeking some form of equity or equality. If you believe that you are somehow lessened by others reaching parity with you then you are part of the problem.
I'm no advocate of derailing things because some <insert event here> didn't do enough to get an adequate sampling of the population. But this perpetual victim ideology used whenever any attempt at diversity is discovered is just pathetic.