Posts tagged ‘conferences’

In the context of geek events, which are usually private and which can therefore impose additional restrictions on behaviour as a condition of entry, that restrictions on photography could prevent some harassment. Behaviours around photographs makes geek events hostile to some participants, especially women.

I’m writing to ask you to donate to the Ada Initiative. A year ago, a friend of mine was groped at an open source conference. Again. I’ve personally been groped twice at conferences myself. But ...

November 29 was the one year anniversary of the publication of the example conference anti-harassment policy! One year later, over 30 conferences have adopted an anti-harassment policy of one kind or another.

Are we really doing this again? I just tried to register (as a speaker) for an upcoming tech conference. One that prides itself on its woman-friendliness, no less: they have an anti-harassment policy, a track ...

Haecken CFP, gay YA, toxic menstruating women, and more.

More Wikipedia gender stats, encouragement to attend tech events, femme fatale gaming violence as porn, and more.

Maybe once a month, at a “girl geek” event, or once a year at a women-focused event at a conference, can technical women enjoy relief from a mental burden that they may not even consciously realise they are carrying. It is not the world’s hugest burden by any measure, but it exists, and can keep us self-silencing and self-doubting.

Do women and startups mix? Was Battlestar Galactica that good? Is dressing up in Leia’s slave costume empowering? All linkspammed today.

The Linux.conf.au 2012 proposal deadline is in a few hours, which gives you plenty of time to cut and paste the following into your speaker proposal: I believe conferences should provide a safe, harassment-free environment ...

This is a guest post by Selena. It is cross-posted from her blog. I totally should be working on my talks right now, but instead I’ve been talking with people about the lack of a ...

Railsbridge Rails Outreach Workshop for Women & Friends, Ed. Español July 22-23 (San Francisco): One of the objectives of the Rails Bridge Open Workshops is diversity, with that in mind we… [aim] to bring more ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question: When choosing pictures for a conference website from the event held the previous year we have specifically looked for photos that happen to include women, to the ...

Welcome to a special round of Ask a Geek Feminist! There are a few photographers/recorders or event organisers who want to ask us questions about their policies or practices, and don’t feel their questions fit ...

We’re starting to collect some examples of photography/recording harassment experiences (still open , and some of the kinds of problems people mention there and elsewhere are: photography/recording conducted in a way that is designed to ...

This is an anecdote gathering exercise, hopefully creating an opportunity for discussion around photography at geek events. At present, the confererence anti-harassment policy (which, as a reminder, is designed to be edited to be made ...

An interesting survey from the Feminist Philosophers blog: Results: What (If Anything) Prevents Women From Accepting Conference Invitations? The most popular reason for women to turn down conference invitations is a lack of funding to ...