[LRUG] Stealth Group!?

Fri Oct 27 06:28:26 PDT 2006

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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