[LRUG] Stealth Group!?

[Chris Mear]

No, not really. I realise the photo comment was a joke, but everyone  
was discussing the wider issues, and I thought I'd weigh in with an  
outsider's perspective. Good to know you're so welcoming.

Chris



On 30 Oct 2006, at 9:18 am, Tom Medhurst wrote:

> Don't you think your overreacting slighty to a thread which has  
> already
> been resolved?
> If not it's probably a good job you didn't go!
>
> Tom Medhurst
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: chat-bounces at lrug.org [mailto:chat-bounces at lrug.org] On  
> Behalf Of
> Chris Mear
> Sent: 27 October 2006 17:32
> To: London Ruby Users Group
> Subject: Re: [LRUG] Stealth Group!?
>
> 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
>
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