Nice speaker lineup for @BritRuby. Except for the 100% white guys part. I don't think adding diversity at the end works. You have to start with it as one of your goals. Who wants to be the token female? Not meaning to single out @BritRuby, just saying I'm disappointed. I know it's a systemic/cultural problem.
By what metric is @BritRuby "one of Europe’s… most diverse Ruby conferences"? Every speaker is a white man.
To an event organiser like myself @BritRuby's line [i.e. "we tried to reach out to non-white dudes but that didn't work"] is 100% bull... that line is getting stale. If you couldn't reach the speakers you haven't made the effort.
@BritRuby Are you saying minority speakers can't get in on merit? Plenty of confs have great speaker lineups that are not 100% white guys.
@BritRuby The comment is not unfair. Else why do you think selecting based on merit results in 100% white guys speaking?
Researchers find that blind evals are crucial to avoid unconscious bias. Conf's process, described via email, isn't.
@BritRuby out of curiosity, how many non-white, straight men are helping organize & going through talk submissions?
Cringing reading @BritRuby say it’s difficult to find good willing European, female or minority speakers “after months of trying” - because it’s defensive, and bullshit - BritRuby clearly didn't look hard enough.
lol...gee our logo is a moustache and we don't know why we don't seem to hear from women #firstimpressions