RubyConf 2013 CFP and Diversity
Posted by Marty Haught on Sep 18, 2013
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The RubyConf 2013 program was partially announced yesterday and there was immediate fallout regarding the lack of women speakers. At first, there appeared to only be 2 women-led talks out of 44. Indeed this percentage is terrible and a step back from where we have been. At the same time there has been a lot of misunderstanding and jumping to conclusions that simply couldn’t be answered over Twitter. I’ve been terribly busy and traveling ever since this all came out and I finally have some time to take more than 5 minutes to respond.
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