[Inpycon] Tutorials

Noufal Ibrahim noufal at gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 14:44:18 CEST 2011


On Tue, Apr 19 2011, Steve Holden wrote:

> In that case I discussed sponsorship with Google (at the time
> represented by Leslie Hawthorne) because we'd been hammering away on
> the diversity list so long, and as I remember it she said something
> along the lines of "why don;t you use $15,000 of our sponsorship money
> to encourage womens' attendance".
>
> I think Van was a little cheesed to discover that $15,000 of his
> sponsorship money had been "preallocated", but Gloria and Peter made
> sure that an additional sum did indeed go to improving the gender
> balance (somewhat: we went up form 2% to 11% in 2010. Don't even know
> if anyone was measuring in 2011, informally I'd judge it dipped again
> as there was no special "women's" effort this year.

This was my general reservation when this was first brought up. Given
that we're very small and with a shoestring budget, it seemed a bad idea
to get money with strings attached from any sponsor. 

Also, like Kenneth has mentioned in the followup to your email, the
number of female participants here seems quite low. I haven't really
looked into the distribution and reasons for lack of attendance but
diversity, during the first and second time conference was not the first
thing on my mind. 

Still, if someone takes the lead for this and it doesn't put any extra
commitments on us, it'd doable. 

> Feel free to write to Gloria and Peter for more information - I am
> sure they will be happy to help.

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