One for the timeline

Posted Dec 2, 2010 5:29 UTC (Thu) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510)
In reply to: One for the timeline by mjg59
Parent article: The dark side of open source conferences

Well, having an interim policy is fine, but a short-sighted pragmatism of stopping there just makes it the case that we'll have to fight the problem forever.

One for the timeline

Posted Dec 2, 2010 13:56 UTC (Thu) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

You're right, providing policies while ignoring some of the other underlying reasons for the gender disparity in software would be short sighted. But nobody's suggesting that. The point is that part of solving the gender disparity is ensuring that women aren't discouraged from attending conferences by behaviour of some other participants.