As a woman, developer and ruby-developer in progress I also have to agree with Paul :-)<br><br>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...".
<br>It doesn't encourage more women to join IT related things, since it looks like a desperated-for-women nerds meeting.<br><br>Anyway, we know he was joking :D<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/27/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Paul Hammond</b> <<a href="mailto:mail@paranoidfish.org">mail@paranoidfish.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> On 10/27/06, Tom Medhurst <<a href="mailto:Tom.Medhurst@exony.com">Tom.Medhurst@exony.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> May I suggest getting some photos of some really hunky guys and girls<br>>> otherwise they'll find something else to dig us about! :p
<br>><br>> Quick! Someone post this on teh LRUG homepage!!<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pizzaonrails/243555779/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/pizzaonrails/243555779/</a><br>><br><br>I know you're joking, but please don't.
<br><br>I'm really disappointed in that photoset and how Pizza on Rails are<br>choosing to market themselves. There are lots of people working<br>really hard to ensure that women are equals in our industry (eg: the<br>recent discussion sparked by
<a href="http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/09/15/">http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/09/15/</a><br>the-future-of-white-boy-clubs/). A photoset like that does a huge<br>amount of damage to that work, particularly when it doesn't actually
<br>reflect what happened at the event, and it makes the London Ruby<br>scene look pretty poor by association.<br><br>I don't go to these events to gawp at (supposedly) attractive women,<br>I go to meet interesting people and chat about technology and our
<br>industry. If pizza on rail wants to be about the former, then I'm<br>not interested in attending.<br><br>I hope that LRUG doesn't follow their example, particularly when it's<br>so unnecessary. We don't need the glamour, there's already too much
<br>exciting stuff happening around here,<br><br>Paul<br>_______________________________________________<br>chat mailing list<br><a href="mailto:chat@lrug.org">chat@lrug.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org">
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