Comments on: gender and sex at gogaruco

By: Blame the Men Who Are Behaving Badly – Coyote Tracks

Blame the Men Who Are Behaving Badly – Coyote Tracks — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:21:14 +0000

[...] …and ad nauseam in supposedly-professional talks and presentations at conferences… [...]

By: Re: A Letter to the Developer Community | Musings and Opinions

Re: A Letter to the Developer Community | Musings and Opinions — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:33:08 +0000

[...] live in an age where we should be above this kind of crap. Unfortunately, between the above and postings like this from a Rails conference a couple of years ago I guess we still have a long way to go. This entry was posted in conference, gender by frauen1. [...]

By: banane » Blog Archive » 1%

banane » Blog Archive » 1% — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:01:35 +0000

[...] >Gender & Sex at GoGaRuCo > women speakers at conferences > Wayne Sutton on diversity at BlogWorld Share and Enjoy: [...]

By: Rails is awesome … too bad the creater and much of the community are total dickwads. | Rebecca Miller-Webster

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 04:11:35 +0000

[...] ladies respond …http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/?p=46 (contains slides and DHH’s comments)http://www.ultrasaurus.com/sarahblog/2009/04/gender-and-sex-at-gogaruco/ (read the comments – she has some good stuff to say about women adopting [...]

By: Porn. Ruby. headdesk » zetkin.net

Porn. Ruby. *headdesk* » zetkin.net — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:24:44 +0000

[...] gave a talk on “CouchDB + Ruby: Perform Like a Pr0n Star”. There’s more about it here and some perspectives from women [...]

By: The where-are-all-the-women question, this time in Open Source | Lady Only! Blog.

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:59:55 +0000

[...] Sarah Allen blogged about the session. If he had left it at a few introductory jokes, I would be writing a very different post. Instead the porn references continued with images of scantily-clad women gratuitously splashed across technical diagrams and intro slides. As he got into code snippets, he inserted interstitial images every few slides (removed from the slides below). The first time it happened, he mentioned that he wanted to keep everyone’s attention. It had the reverse effect. This technique was distracting and disrespectful to an audience who, frankly, is turned on by code. This crowd had just watch hour upon hour of code slide shows and live irb sessions, often on the edge of their seats as they absorbed the latest whiz-bang plugin or coding technique from one of the masters. [...]

By: Embracing Gender Diversity in Technology at Amatuer Rocket Surgery

Embracing Gender Diversity in Technology at Amatuer Rocket Surgery — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:33:49 +0000

[...] a very good job at embracing gender diversity. As exemplified by presenations at the Flashbelt and Golden Gate Ruby Conference, women in technology are frequently put into offensive and objectifying positions. This is [...]

By: Omega Point » Blog Archive » “Why do you write about technology? Wouldn’t you rather be writing about fashion or something?”

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:13:26 +0000

[...] the other hand, this presentation did come up at a recent Ruby conference, as did one at this year’s DrupalCon, that asserted [...]

By: Getting bugs out of our systems « Everybody’s Libraries

Getting bugs out of our systems « Everybody’s Libraries — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:21:12 +0000

[...] hope none of these principles seem new or controversial. But I’ve recently seen a few bug reports concerning the Ruby on Rails community where many the responses ignored them. The reports [...]

By: technology and gender

technology and gender — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:18:43 +0000

[...] Jender tells me there were 6 women out of the 200 at the conference, and he’s referred me to this post on the topic by one of those women. Feminism, [...]