[Inpycon] Registrations open

Noufal Ibrahim noufal at gmail.com
Wed Jul 7 13:07:08 CEST 2010


Anand Balachandran Pillai <abpillai at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 2010/7/7 स्वक्ष <vid at svaksha.com>:
>> > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 12:42, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> The registrations for the conference are offically open as per what we
>> >> discussed on email. The link to the blog post with the details is here
>> >> http://in.pycon.org/2010/blog/6-Registrations-are-open!
>> >>
>> >
>> > http://pyconindia2010.doattend.com/orders/embed_register, has
>> > mandatory fields marked with an asterisk. Is there a compulsive reason
>> > for doattend to know the following: Gender*,  Organization*, Job
>> > Title*, City* ? For the last 3 fields you can fill anything if you
>> > dont wish to give details but not so for the gender field --The
>> > T-Shirt Size does not have a listing for Womens-tees so why insist on
>> > the knowing the "Gender" of a registrant? As long as the email id is
>> > valid and the payment goes through, personal details are totally
>> > irrelevant for doattend, imho.
>>
>
>
>  It is not used for T sizes, just for statistics.

Yes. People have asked last year about the number of female participants
and with the new diversity statement in place, it's a useful statistic. 

Given the fact that we're trying to grow the language, it's also useful
to know organisation, job title and city.

>  I dont know why this is a problem. I think most of us belong
>  to one or the other, so it should be an easy option to fill.
>
>  If we want to be very politically correct, provide a  "None of these"
>  option also, but hey there are other important things to worry
>  about...

Yup. Forgive me if I sound rash but I think many of these anonymity
concerns are just plain annoying and don't really serve any purpose.

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