GNOME finalizes its speaker guidelines

Posted Jul 2, 2010 2:30 UTC (Fri) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510)
Parent article: GNOME finalizes its speaker guidelines

In 2007 I did the TAPR keynote, which I reprised for the San Francisco LUG (the Chinese Restaurant one) sometime later. It's entitled "Coming of Age as a Radio Amateur". The age was 50. There are a lot of tongue in cheek references to male menopause, including photos of antennas being raised by men in raincoats, the antenna on the back of my car at which I commented "it's seen a girl Prius and it's excited", and of course a political policy and technical discussion. I got a standing ovation from TAPR, and fan mail from at least one woman attending who expected to be bored.

It's disappointing that GNOME doesn't have the maturity to handle this sort of presentation. Fortunately there are lots of technical development venues that do.

GNOME finalizes its speaker guidelines

Posted Jul 8, 2010 23:16 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Mmmm...

I was thinking something like that ...

Can't give chapter and verse I'm afraid, but I'm thinking of an incident in an (I think) university magazine. It came out, and the feminist lobby were up in arms - "it's outrageous, how could a man do this, etc etc".

Then they were invited to meet the artist who'd penned this particular piece. A woman!

Cheers,
Wol