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Conferences may be more trouble than they are worth

Conferences may be more trouble than they are worth

Posted Mar 24, 2013 20:21 UTC (Sun) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)
In reply to: Conferences may be more trouble than they are worth by marcH
Parent article: Blum: Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost

To me these issues sound important enough not to waste any time or energy or electrons on futile things like increasing the chances of little girls to work in IT (assuming working in IT is a good thing at all)

The polite thing I have to say here is: Activism effort is not fungible.


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Conferences may be more trouble than they are worth

Posted Mar 25, 2013 8:17 UTC (Mon) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

> Activism effort is not fungible.

Existing activism effort hardly is. On the other hand, putting things in perspective can possibly change the mind of people not involved yet, affect fund raising, etc.

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