Re:KatieConf
by geofft on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @11:29AM
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Most good talks I've seen by people who understand the material well enough to give a good talk about it, and know how to give a good talk. Sometimes this correlates with being the person with the most qualifications to have opinions on the subject, period; usually it does not.
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So this page is saying that all these speakers are good generalists who can brush up on any topic and deliver a reasonable (maybe not great) talk? If you "need a bit of diversity". That's really patronising.
No, this page isn't saying that these speakers are generalists, this page is saying that people who can't find any women at all are not trying. That's the entire point of restricting the page to a subset of women named Katie, instead of saying "Here's a list of women technical speakers, pick one and replace people from your speaker lineup at random."