[LRUG] Stealth Group!?

[Yoshime Igarashi]

Apologies, the previous post in this thread was mistakenly sent
without my signature. The content was less sincere nonetheless.

Regards,

Yoshime

On 28/10/06, Yoshime Igarashi <yoshime.igarashi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28/10/06, Robert McKinnon <rob_m_mckinnon at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > At an event last week, I had a chat with Sarah, organizer of Girl Geek
> > Dinners (http://www.londongirlgeekdinners.co.uk/), about how to make a
> > user group more accessible for women attendees.
>
> There was one slide, even at RailsConf Europe 2006 in September,
> showing a couple saying "I am a geek" and "I love geeks". Although the
> joke taken as one, I couldn't help finding it slightly misleading and
> not especially encouraging more female programmers to attend such
> conferences.
>
> If you are a female software developer, it's not unusual to find
> yourself one of very few female attendees, sometimes the only one, in
> a crowd of many talented developers. In situations such as that, it
> would be too unprofessional not to be aware of the possibility of your
> appearing as if you were there for something more than learning and
> meeting interesting people.  With that said, however, I think that
> everyone knows what's professional and what's not. I guess that not
> assuming too much about other fellow attendees would always help in
> the long run, if the community needs to be more accessible to anyone.
>