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PHP Central Europe Conference Collapses Over Diversity Concerns

posted by martyb on Wednesday August 28 2019, @02:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the diverse-views dept.

takyon writes:

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".

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday August 28 2019, @03:04PM (5 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday August 28 2019, @03:04PM (#886826) Journal

    Nobody got excluded except for women.

    People decided to not attend a sausage fest. The End.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @03:21PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @03:21PM (#886835)

    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)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @03:53PM (#886847)

    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)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @04:42PM (#886875)

      Qubes, by Joanna Rutkowska. BTW, she's the best hacker ever.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @06:24PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @06:24PM (#886920)

        Qubes, by Joanna Rutkowska. BTW, she's the best hacker ever.

        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

      by Pino P (4721) on Thursday August 29 2019, @07:17PM (#887445) Journal

      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.