Comments on: Towards more diversity of speakers at MySQL Conference and Expo http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/02/06/towards-more-diversity-of-speakers-at-mysql-conference-and-expo/ Stay curious! Fri, 10 May 2013 18:25:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: zillablog http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/02/06/towards-more-diversity-of-speakers-at-mysql-conference-and-expo/#comment-15853 zillablog Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:02:51 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=803#comment-15853 Community One 2009, now with less of that pesky community…

Before I go too far, let me disclose that I submitted a talk for CommunityOne designed to cover some of the tools we’ve open-sourced that combine Postgres with various parts of Solaris (like dtrace and zfs), which was turned down.

Now, I’m willin…

]]> By: Anderson Vitous http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/02/06/towards-more-diversity-of-speakers-at-mysql-conference-and-expo/#comment-15806 Anderson Vitous Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:00:15 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=803#comment-15806 Diversity is great, and I, too, had noted you, Peter and Percona in general sadly weren’t represented on the MySQL conference schedule. Diversity also presents a problem at conferences; all too often the really interesting sessions are scheduled _at the same time_, and now that your own sessions are added to Wednesday/Thursday’s mix, I’ll be wishing I were at times _three_ people. ;)

]]> By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/02/06/towards-more-diversity-of-speakers-at-mysql-conference-and-expo/#comment-15798 Xaprb Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:54:41 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=803#comment-15798 I just recovered Amber Rhea’s pingback out of the spam folder. I would be interested to know what percentage of women’s proposals were accepted, vs. what percentage of men’s. But of course I think this is kind of a tough point to discuss in a completely male-dominated industry; I don’t even know where to begin.

]]> By: Being Amber Rhea » Blog Archive » links for 2009-02-09 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/02/06/towards-more-diversity-of-speakers-at-mysql-conference-and-expo/#comment-15795 Being Amber Rhea » Blog Archive » links for 2009-02-09 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:30:24 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=803#comment-15795 [...] Towards more diversity of speakers at MySQL Conference and Expo at Xaprb As zopemaven said: "Wow. 'Diversity' now apparently means 'number of ISVs represented'. And 2 women speakers (out of a list of ~130) merits no comment?" (tags: bullshit diversity conferences sexism) [...]

]]> By: Henrik Ingo http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/02/06/towards-more-diversity-of-speakers-at-mysql-conference-and-expo/#comment-15793 Henrik Ingo Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:20:05 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=803#comment-15793 Also not to forget: MySQL Camp: the un-conference inside the conference. (Or it seems to be before the conference, really?)

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