Give us diversity! There's too much JavaScript code in Electron. Minorities such as PHP, C++, and LISP are underrepresented and opressed!
ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of speakers” can be delivered
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Re: ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of speakers” can be delivered
#22I'm glad that they're taking it seriously and not just saying they're committed to diversity. It's postponed, not cancelled, though.
Why postpone it at all? They did a call for papers with blind review and the best papers were men. Its new tech, conferences are important promotion opportunities, especially for tech as maligned as Electron is. This seems like bad optics, and I feel bad for anyone who was accepted but gets bumped for a new presenter of the "right demographics".
I didn't know they had blind review for the papers; if they did not have blind review and for one reason or another knowingly chose an all-white-male speaker list (or whatever they mean by lack of diversity in this case) I'd understand this move - they felt they made bad choices and want to fix it before proceeding. But if all the speakers were chosen blind, if done correctly taking unconscious bias out of the equation, it seems kind of silly to cancel the conference when their objectively best papers happened to not fit into their preferred demographic spread.
Personally even if I was someone who would at some point be interested in speaking at such a conference, I would now avoid applying for fear of being accepted wholly or in part to fit their female quota as opposed to on the merit of my proposed material.
Re: ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of speakers” can be delivered
#23What's next, bar contributions to the repository and automatically deny pull requests based off race, gender, and/or ethnicity?
Re: ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of speakers” can be delivered
#24I'm a minority as far as "diversity" goes and this is dumb. If diversity really matters to you (and it fucking shouldn't at something like this), then put the conference on, and use it to get more minorities interested in the con. Teach more people, and eventually you will have more than enough speakers who come from diverse backgrounds.
Re: ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of speakers” can be delivered
#25I am an Indian (मैं भारतीय हूं) but as long as there are people who put token diversity over true meritocracy, there will never be hope for the downtrodden. This entire thing is such a farce.
Well Indians are over represented in tech so you're views don't matter. Double because you're male.
But yes, rather rediculous. Totally agree. It's like survelience and terrorism. Just a stupid excuse to gain Goodwill w/ some groups and avoid a different problem they don't want to deal with.
Hope you weren't offended, I just wanted to make a point. Of course your views matter
Re: ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of speakers” can be delivered
#26Social justice is not justice.
Social justice is not compatible with truth (science, math, physics, software engineering, etc).
Re: ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of speakers” can be delivered
#27What was the list of speakers?
Re: ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of speakers” can be delivered
#28It seems that most people are crediting the cancellation with this tweet - https://twitter.com/fox/status/870761439094489088
"Congratulations @Github for hosting an all male conference!"
Re: ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of speakers” can be delivered
#29What was the list of speakers?
Re: ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of speakers” can be delivered
#30Is meritocracy dead?