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Conferences may be more trouble than they are worthConferences may be more trouble than they are worthPosted Mar 24, 2013 23:45 UTC (Sun) by sjj (subscriber, #2020)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
I don't really understand what you're trying to say here. I choose to be charitable and think "futile things like increasing the chances of little girls to work in IT" is some kind of misapplied sarcasm. Little girls or little boys seldom work in IT - adult women and men do. Are you referring to women in IT as "little girls"? Because if that's what you think, here's my advice: get a clue and grow up.
Your post sounds to me like you reached into your Bag of Derailment Arguments and pulled out paragraphs at random. In order: what is the relevance of American crime rate and incarceration statistics (which are appalling) to this discussion? Second graf, see above. Third graf is gibberish. And just in case some young up and coming sysadmins are still reading this thread: please don't take BOFH stories as professional advice (yes, I've had to make this point to people in my career, and I've had people from outside of IT/Operations come to me and tell me they think it's great they don't have to be afraid of talking to our department anymore). You don't want to be That Guy.
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Conferences may be more trouble than they are worth Posted Mar 25, 2013 9:48 UTC (Mon) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784) [Link] Are you referring to women in IT as "little girls"? I think it's obvious that they were not, especially from the broader context of the discussion. I recommend not looking for offence at every opportunity, instead giving people the benefit of the doubt even if you don't agree with their general position.
Conferences may be more trouble than they are worth Posted Mar 26, 2013 0:16 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Curious. I read precisely the opposite from context than do you. Do you really think anyone is arguing that six-year-old children of any gender should work in IT?! Talk about straw women...
Conferences may be more trouble than they are worth Posted Mar 26, 2013 0:51 UTC (Tue) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]
> Do you really think anyone is arguing that six-year-old children of any gender should work in IT?!
http://www.google.com/search?q=adria+richards+little+girl
(I wonder where you got the "six-year-old" part from)
Conferences may be more trouble than they are worth Posted Mar 26, 2013 12:14 UTC (Tue) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784) [Link]
Did you reply to the wrong post here? No-one was arguing that six-year-old children should work in IT. The encouragement of little girls and boys to become interested in computers (and one day in the future perhaps work in IT) was a theme at PyCon US, especially as they had tutorials for children and gave out Raspberry Pis to everyone. That's the wider context, not what the Internet mob had to say about it afterwards.
Conferences may be more trouble than they are worth Posted Mar 25, 2013 10:06 UTC (Mon) by micka (subscriber, #38720) [Link]
I think (but can be sure that) "little girls" was refering to the alleged cause of Adria Richards' snapping.
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