[LRUG] Stealth Group!?

[Chris Mear]

On 27 Oct 2006, at 2:15 pm, Paul Hammond 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.

Hear hear. I saw that photoset and couldn't believe it. Quite apart  
from the good work it's undoing, I'd be flat out embarrassed by an  
event that involved hired eye candy feeding me greasy pizza. That's  
just not pleasant for anyone involved.

As someone who wasn't at the event, and who hasn't in fact been to  
any kind of developer meet-up yet, stuff like that just makes the  
whole scene look, well, pathetic.

Chris