<div dir="ltr">Hi Valorie,<div><br></div><div>On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Valorie Zimmerman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:valorie.zimmerman@gmail.com" target="_blank">valorie.zimmerman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Woah. I never thought I would hear such things here.<br>
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On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles<br>
<<a href="mailto:pgquiles@elpauer.org">pgquiles@elpauer.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> John,<br>...<br>
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</span>There are many reasons women don't submit talk proposals. One of them<br>
is the perceived unfriendly, unwelcoming nature of the conf. I'm not<br>
saying that FOSDEM *is* unfriendly or unwelcoming to women. However,<br>
it certainly has that reputation.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Really? I was absolutely not aware of that, and I have attended FOSDEM very often in the past. Is there any links to why you state that FOSDEM is unfriendly and unwelcoming? From my personal experience I certainly can't confirm that!</div><div><br></div><div>Please everybody, can we not extrapolate from events where discrimination happened and which led to the elaboration of as CoC to that all events by default are unwelcoming and unfriendly? And as mentioned by other FOSDEM regulars: there is a social policy in place which answers pretty much all the objections I could have.</div><div><br></div><div>I am very surprised at the assumption of FOSDEM being a bad event, really.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards, Myriam</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Proud member of the Amarok and KDE Community<br>Protect your freedom and join the Fellowship of FSFE:<br><a href="http://www.fsfe.org" target="_blank">http://www.fsfe.org</a><br>Please don't send me proprietary file formats,<br>use ISO standard ODF instead (ISO/IEC 26300)</div>
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