[LRUG] Stealth Group!?

[Tom Medhurst]

Oops I think I may have got *J* into trouble!

Sorry guys for any misunderstood meaning my email may have caused.. I'm an ugly bugger if it makes you feel any better (<http://clipmon32.sourceforge.net>); Ha! :p

 

Tom

 

From: chat-bounces at lrug.org [mailto:chat-bounces at lrug.org] On Behalf Of soledad penadés | sole
Sent: 27 October 2006 14:28
To: London Ruby Users Group
Subject: Re: [LRUG] Stealth Group!?

 

As a woman, developer and ruby-developer in progress I also have to agree with Paul :-)

Working in the IT industry is sometimes complicated enough for us,and when I saw the pizza girls at POR I got a bit like "oh no...". 
It doesn't encourage more women to join IT related things, since it looks like a desperated-for-women nerds meeting.

Anyway, we know he was joking :D

On 10/27/06, Paul Hammond <mail at paranoidfish.org> wrote:

> On 10/27/06, Tom Medhurst <Tom.Medhurst at exony.com> wrote:
>> May I suggest getting some photos of some really hunky guys and girls
>> otherwise they'll find something else to dig us about! :p 
>
> Quick! Someone post this on teh LRUG homepage!!
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/pizzaonrails/243555779/
>

I know you're joking, but please don't. 

I'm really disappointed in that photoset and how Pizza on Rails are
choosing to market themselves.  There are lots of people working
really hard to ensure that women are equals in our industry (eg: the
recent discussion sparked by http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/09/15/
the-future-of-white-boy-clubs/).  A photoset like that does a huge
amount of damage to that work, particularly when it doesn't actually 
reflect what happened at the event, and it makes the London Ruby
scene look pretty poor by association.

I don't go to these events to gawp at (supposedly) attractive women,
I go to meet interesting people and chat about technology and our 
industry.  If pizza on rail wants to be about the former, then I'm
not interested in attending.

I hope that LRUG doesn't follow their example, particularly when it's
so unnecessary. We don't need the glamour, there's already too much 
exciting stuff happening around here,

Paul
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