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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: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday August 28 2019, @02:40PM (6 children)
Use Inclusive in a sentence. For example:
In order to be as Inclusive as possible, we are excluding some Straight White Dudes.
Thinking outside of the non-existent box for a second, does PHP have a CoC? (Code of Conduct?) If not, then maybe that is their problem. All software projects need a CoC. It is even more important than what open source license is chosen. A CoC that is a true work of genius would be if the CoC text is in fact a violation of both the spirit and letter of the CoC. Developing the CoC is one of the first things that an open source project's resources should be spent creating.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday August 28 2019, @03:04PM (5 children)
Nobody got excluded except for women.
People decided to not attend a sausage fest. The End.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @03:21PM
Is that what your kind is about? Going to a conference, not because of the material, but the pussy?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @03:53PM (3 children)
name me some known FOSS projects created or maintained by a woman.
For example, take your favorite distro's repository, and look through that. Or look at packages installed on your system.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @04:42PM (1 child)
Qubes, by Joanna Rutkowska. BTW, she's the best hacker ever.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @06:24PM
Seconded. :) Now that is one (while, strictly speaking, not in any distro's repository): https://www.qubes-os.org/ [qubes-os.org]
Who can add to the list?
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Thursday August 29 2019, @07:17PM
I can think of at least mGBA [mgba.io], a Game Boy and Game Boy Advance emulator maintained by Vicki Pfau and packaged in Debian [debian.org]. In the Game Boy scene, it's regarded as a best-of-class GBA emulator and a usable (if imperfect) GB/GBC emulator.