[LRUG] Ru3y Manor diversity

[Stevie Graham]

I think everyone would like to see quite a bit more diversity. However, choosing which proposals that get the nod should be blind to extraneous factors, e.g. race, gender, sexual orientation of the speaker. I'm not suggesting anyone is saying otherwise, but I think it's important that talk proposals are judged on their merits alone. Anything else would be wrong IMHO.

S

On 18 Sep 2011, at 10:53, Jon Leighton wrote:

> Greetings LRUG,
> 
> One of the things that I would love it if we could achieve with Ru3y
> Manor would be a conference that fosters diversity in our community.
> 
> IMO it's not enough if at the end of the day we turn around to each
> other and say "it's a shame only 1 woman turned up" or "sadly all the
> speakers were white guys".
> 
> So, I hope this doesn't sound overly lame or patronising, but if you are
> someone who doesn't identify yourself as a straight white able-bodied
> male, I would personally love it if you would submit a talk and/or come
> along to the conference (the first batch of tickets go on sale
> tomorrow).
> 
> [And that's not to say that I don't want the rest of you to participate
> as well!]
> 
> Cheers,
> Jon
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