[Baypiggies] Finding work - Company: Keas (S.F.)

[Aahz]

On Mon, Jun 08, 2009, Dylan Reinhardt wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Going off on a little bit of a tangent, it's my perception that because
>> Python is still largely self-selected, the Python community overall skews
>> older than other parts of the computer industry.  Although the bias
>> toward young people does exist in the computer industry, I've seen little
>> evidence of it in hiring for Python jobs.
> 
> That's not my sense of Python demographics at all.  Or of hiring bias.
>
> People who attend meetings *also* represent a largely self-selected
> group.  There may be something about the meeting night, time, or
> location that causes one group to show up and another not to make it.
> I've wanted to come to a meeting of this group for years and never
> seem to make it happen.
>
> Your evidence for young people in Python may lie in the disparity
> between how many people are on the mailing list and how many people
> make it to a meeting.  The fact that you don't see them may, itself,
> be evidence of hiring bias.  Young people may be more likely to blow
> off networking and professional development stuff during the time
> they're in heavy professional demand.

You're making statements about my evidence without knowing what my
evidence is?  Why do you think that my evidence comes from BayPIGgies
meeting demographics?

Side note: for anyone not aware, the current Release Manager for Python
is not yet eighteen, so it's certainly the case that younger people are
also heavily involved with Python development.
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