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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @07:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @07:23PM (#886942)

    Just a tip on your abbreviation there: PHP is a backronym for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" not "Hypertext Preprocessor" without the leading "PHP." Although, I really wished they had taken my favorite suggestion "Pachyderm Hypertext Preprocessor" to keep the Elephant theme, since everyone just uses the short version anyway.