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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by spraak on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @01:30AM (#14954693)
The important context though is in how the conference was promoted in the first place, though.
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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by hn_throwaway_99 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @01:43AM (#14954773)
I'll note that one of the rules for proposal submission that GitHub specified before proposals were accepted was that any ties in ratings would be broken in favor of a more diverse speaker panel, so it at least appears that they were conscious of attracting women and minorities to the conference.
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