nurkiewicz, 6 months ago to random

If you've been living under a rock, the #DevTernity/#JDKon conference scandal has a pretty widespread media coverage:

• https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/28/23978254/devternity-jdkon-developer-conference-fake-women-speakers
• https://fortune.com/2023/11/27/devternity-tech-conference-fake-women-speakers-profiles-engineering/
• https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/28/devternity_conference_fake_speakers/
• https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/backlash-over-fake-female-speakers-shuts-down-developer-conference/
• https://thenewstack.io/meet-anna-boyko-how-a-fake-speaker-blew-up-devternity/
• https://www.404media.co/devternity-fake-speakers-eduard-sizovs/

drupalchix, 6 months ago to random

It's 2023. If you still can't find anyone besides your white male friends to speak at conferences, time to step aside and get out of the way.

"Imagine a tech conference having no CFP, as they reach out to speakers directly. They successfully attract some of the most heavy hitter men speakers in tech, and 3 women speakers.

Now imagine my surprise that 2 of those women are FAKE profiles.

They do not exist.

Nada."

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1728177708608450705.html

#DevTernity #JDKon #WomenInTech #TechDiversity

To spell it out why this conference generated fake women speakers. Because the organizer wants big names and it probably seemed like an easy way to address their diversity concerns. Incredibly lazy.