Re: Where are the women?

If you want a quick code of conduct, check out the one that PyCon US
used this year. They borrowed it from another advocacy group, I
believe, so it's becoming pretty standard.

Katie

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Jonas Obrist <ojiidotch@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm one of the organizers of DjangoCon Europe 2012 and as Daniele pointed
> out, it made me sad when seeing the amount of women that submitted a talk.
> While we have no statistics of a gender breakdown for the tickets sold so
> far, just glancing at the list of names makes me sad.
>
> I wonder how much of this is just bad organizing and communication from our
> part, and how much it is because there are less women in the Django
> community than men (if that's even the case). On that note, thanks for
> giving your views on this topic everyone.
>
> I will see which suggestions we can still implement for DjangoCon Europe and
> if you have any more suggestions, please feel free to contact me directly at
> ojiidotch@gmail.com, as I often forget to check mailing lists.
>
> We'll publish a code of conduct soon, the reason why this was not done yet
> is because I naively thought that it is unnecessary, as
> everything usually mentioned in a code of conduct is covered by Swiss law
> anyway (especially discrimination).
>
> Jonas Obrist
>
>
> On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 8:28:07 PM UTC+2, Katie Cunningham wrote:
>>
>> If you want to get more women to a conference, a few things have been
>> successful on this side of the pond:
>>
>>  - Scholarships set aside for female attendees
>>  - Specifically invite potential female speakers to talk, or at least
>> submit a talk
>>  - Reach out to women-based tech groups, and make sure they know about
>> the conference
>>  - Talk to females that are already attending, and see if they can share a
>> room
>>  - Encourage sponsors to sponsor costs for a female attendee.
>>  - Have a code of conduct that is public, explicit, and enforced.
>>
>> Even doing the scholarships for a few spots shows that your conference
>> shows that you're serious about women attending. I don't know, when
>> looking into a conference, whether your conference is going to be one
>> where I'm going to get cat-called or one where I'm going to feel
>> completely at home.
>>
>> Katie Cunningham
>
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