I think that any conference that in 2018 creates a panel consisting of all men is frankly, more stupid than can really be grasped.
It’s called a “Manel” and once this gets onto Twitter this conference will be crucified.
There will be much apologizing, excuse making, back pedaling, explaining that ‘we tried but there’s no females who know anything about RabbitMQ’ and then finally the existing speakers, under public pressure, risk pulling out and then the conference risk being cancelled.
At a minimum, Microsoft will be targeted and the Microsoft speaker will pull out, followed by the others who care about the public perception.
Almost certainly Pivotal and Goldman Sachs will pull out too.
Let’s wait and see how much of this actually happens.
Thanks for pointing that out! We would, of course, love to have female speakers on the summit. We had an open call for talks, which was promoted on the web, Twitter, newsletters etc., but there were only male speakers applying, unfortunately.
In the talks committee, Dormain Drewitz (who leads Product Marketing at Pivotal) and Lovisa Johansson (Marketing Manager / Software Developer at CloudAMQP), two female professionals highly experienced in RabbitMQ, was participating in choosing the speakers. In terms of the panel discussion, it will be lead by Dormain.
Lovisa is very skilled in RabbitMQ, and has written ebooks, technical documentation and tons of blog posts on the topic. However, she couldn’t participate as a speaker or in the panel discussion since she will have other commitments during the summit.
Diversity is a high priority for us, and we have a lot of females working behind the scenes as project leaders managing the summit.
I'm looking forward to hear Nathan from Wunderlist/Microsoft talk. We had the same investors back in the day and I remember they had serious trouble with synchronising to-dos between team members. Something they allegedly solved with RabbitMQ.
[+] [-] hguhghuff|7 years ago|reply
I think that any conference that in 2018 creates a panel consisting of all men is frankly, more stupid than can really be grasped.
It’s called a “Manel” and once this gets onto Twitter this conference will be crucified.
There will be much apologizing, excuse making, back pedaling, explaining that ‘we tried but there’s no females who know anything about RabbitMQ’ and then finally the existing speakers, under public pressure, risk pulling out and then the conference risk being cancelled.
At a minimum, Microsoft will be targeted and the Microsoft speaker will pull out, followed by the others who care about the public perception.
Almost certainly Pivotal and Goldman Sachs will pull out too.
Let’s wait and see how much of this actually happens.
[+] [-] CarlHoerberg|7 years ago|reply
In the talks committee, Dormain Drewitz (who leads Product Marketing at Pivotal) and Lovisa Johansson (Marketing Manager / Software Developer at CloudAMQP), two female professionals highly experienced in RabbitMQ, was participating in choosing the speakers. In terms of the panel discussion, it will be lead by Dormain.
Lovisa is very skilled in RabbitMQ, and has written ebooks, technical documentation and tons of blog posts on the topic. However, she couldn’t participate as a speaker or in the panel discussion since she will have other commitments during the summit.
Diversity is a high priority for us, and we have a lot of females working behind the scenes as project leaders managing the summit.
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