The "Favorite Languages" need a little updating. I wanted to pick OCaml, Rust and Hack.
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#22Given the title of the page, I'm kind of disappointed that this wasn't defined. http://i.imgur.com/zKu6byK.png
Give us 24 hours to come up with something cool :)
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#23The "Favorite Languages" need a little updating. I wanted to pick OCaml, Rust and Hack.
Haha.. we've got "Other" as a catch-all. Not quite as cool as listing more languages :)
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#24It would be really nice to have some info about each programming non-profit. E.G. Why they are in your donation list. What they do. Why you like them. Why I should donate to them. They all sound really interesting, and I want to pick a good one to give too, but unfortunately I don't really know anything about any of them. As it is now there is a huge cognitive barrier to completing registration. I want to give, but I…
I went ahead and registered by posting to facebook using http://www.paywithapost.de/ and received a ticket code. After doing so I received an email saying my registration was incomplete and the email gave a link to complete my registration. Clicking back through to pay with a post it looks like they still have my registration. Maybe the email is going out prematurely before you have a chance to receive a webhook from…
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#25The "Favorite Languages" need a little updating. I wanted to pick OCaml, Rust and Hack.
Haha.. we've got "Other" as a catch-all. Not quite as cool as listing more languages :)
Also, maybe split "C, C++"? C is one of my favorite languages, C++ not so much.
Not serious, but I think it would produce interesting results.
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#26This looks pretty cool; I just registered. However, I will be that guy that points out that only four of the 33 speakers are women and over two-thirds of the speakers are white men. While I do appreciate that a good number of the non-profits are ones that help women code, having a low number of women/minority speakers certainly doesn't help and could even be counterproductive to those causes.
White males were the most encouraged demographic to go into tech when their age group was young. The fact that there are a lot more white males in that group just demonstrates what society was like in the past.
If I was throwing a convention, I would want the best and the brightest 30+ year olds for wisdom/experience reasons. And since everyone agrees that males dominated the space in the last 15 years, why would it even make sense for there to be a higher percentage of females presenting?
Should we punish these brilliant people (it's quite the collection of intelligence) because they were born in a certain era? I mean we could, but that would just bring us in another equally bad direction.
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#27Any chance you could accept bitcoin? Seems like a really cool event otherwise.
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#28This looks pretty cool; I just registered. However, I will be that guy that points out that only four of the 33 speakers are women and over two-thirds of the speakers are white men. While I do appreciate that a good number of the non-profits are ones that help women code, having a low number of women/minority speakers certainly doesn't help and could even be counterproductive to those causes.
> While I do appreciate that a good number of the non-profits are ones that help women code, having a low number of women/minority speakers certainly doesn't help and could even be counterproductive to those causes.
I don't disagree. However, is it reasonable to expect the conference speaker roster to have significantly higher diversity than the industry itself, considering those speakers are drawn from the industry? Some would say yes, and I think it's a good idea, but it is going to be harder.
I think the fact that to get a ticket I dontated to Women Who Code is more than most conferences will ever do, and I'm not going to vilify them for this, personally...
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#29I just wanna say: awesome job on the UX. That alone makes me want to sign up.
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#30This looks pretty cool; I just registered. However, I will be that guy that points out that only four of the 33 speakers are women and over two-thirds of the speakers are white men. While I do appreciate that a good number of the non-profits are ones that help women code, having a low number of women/minority speakers certainly doesn't help and could even be counterproductive to those causes.
White males were the most encouraged demographic to go into tech when their age group was young. The fact that there are a lot more white males in that group just demonstrates what society was like in the past. If I was throwing a convention, I would want the best and the brightest 30+ year olds for wisdom/experience reasons. And since everyone agrees that males dominated the space in the last 15 years, why would it…
>most encouraged demographic
I used to mentor college students in a biology lab. I tried to get the students to learn basic programming and data analysis for biological data. All but one of the girls turned down the opportunity. All the males at least tried it out, some got very deep into programming.