cczona

Some excellent examples to draw upon when developing a CFP. Highlights include communicating to proposers:

  * conference's distictive character
  * suggested or preferred topics
  * logistics such as where, when, audience size, etc
  * speaker package such as travel, honorarium, etc
  * evalution process
  * timelines
  * assistance available for new speakers
  * mutual expectations

LindseyB

(stolen from the feminism thread on SA)

Feminism 101, or "What in the fuck is The Gilded Cage?"

If you are new to feminism, approaching it from a position of privilege, or haven't read any of these books for any reason, I strongly recommend them.

Feminism is For Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks. Coming from the perspective of a woman of color, bell hooks calls for feminism free of divisive policies and rich with discussion. She critically analyzes the problems facing feminists today, and proposes a vision of a beloved community that appeals to all those committed to equality in just 125 pages and using simple, accessible language.

No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women by Estelle Freedman. The author, a Stanford professor, examines 200 years of feminism and describes the critical momentum which the movement has gained. She explores the new approaches women are taking to traditional feminist concerns, and insightfully debunks the claim the feminism is dea

dypsilon

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juliepagano

This list now exists over at http://juliepagano.com/blog/2013/11/02/101-off-limits/ and will be updated there.

I keep saying that impromptu, unwanted feminism 101 discussions are exhausting and not a good use of my resources. Then people ask what I mean by 101, so I'm starting to make a list. This list will change over time - I recommend checking back.

I highly recommend checking this list before engaging with me about feminism if you're new to it. It'll save both of us a lot of time and frustration.

Diversity in tech

Women aren't equally represented in tech because biology

Nope. This argument is bad and the science does not support it. Unfortunately, every time you say this out loud, you are contributing to cultural problems that do decrease the number of women in tech.

wilkie

Tech/STEM Participation Statistics

Taulbee Survey depicts female computer science bachelor's degrees to be ~12% in 2010-2011

• http://www.cra.org/resources/taulbee/

Bachelor's earned by women relative to other STEM fields. (Note decline unique to CS)

• http://www.aip.org/statistics/trends/highlite/other/womenbach.htm

Black computer science professors near 0.25% *

trodrigues

Mac OSX keyboard layout switching is a pain.
Using a keyboard layout different than the one actually printed on
your keys is also weird. The following keyboard shortcuts allow you
to create the various diacritics used in languages like Portuguese
on the British/US layout of a Mac keyboard.
 
 
Alt+e -> ´ Examples: é ó á
Alt+i -> ^ Examples: â ê
Alt+c -> ç

KarbonDallas

~ #node.js
[20.16.16] < TheEmpath> so
[20.16.34] < TheEmpath> anyone else have a hot programmer girl in their office? o____O
[20.16.42] < Lorentz> I wiiish
[20.16.48] <@Nexxy> not appropriate.
[20.16.57] »¡« Signoff caaakeeey: #Node.js (Ping timeout: 260 seconds)
[20.17.32] < joshwnj> yeah guys, grow up
[20.17.38] < jerrysv> Nexxy: olynode was fun, you should have gone
[20.18.03] < TheEmpath> my boss came by and said "Here, a new subodinate" and its a very attractive female. the otherwise painfully quite engineering room suddenly came to life and its a problem :X
~~~~~~~

unclebob

Today I gave a keynote at ACCU in Oxford.  In the midst of it I made two (count them) two statements that I should have known better than to make.  I was describing the late '70s, and the way we felt about the C language at the time.  My slide said something like: "C was for real men."  Emily Bache, whom I know and hold in high regard, spoke up and said "What about women?".  And I said something like: "We didn't allow women in those days."  It was a dumb crack, and should either not have been said, or should have been followed up with a statement to the effect that that was wrong headed.  

The second mistake I made was while describing Cobol. I mentioned Adm. Grace Hopper.  I said something like "May she rest in peace."  I don't know that any of the words were actually demeaning, but the tone was not as respectful as it should have been to an Admiral in the United State Navy, and one who was so instrumental in our industry; despite what I feel about Cobol.  

I am a 59 year old programmer who was brought up 

chriseppstein

module Sass::Script::Functions
  def user_color
    color_values = options[:custom][:user].color.
                     scan(/^#?(..?)(..?)(..?)$/).first.
                     map {|num| num.ljust(2, num).to_i(16)}
    Sass::Script::Color.new(color_values)
  end
end

endolith

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