What do I think? Well since you asked.....
I think that any conference that in 2018 creates a panel consisting of all men is frankly, more stupid than can really be grasped.
It’s called a “Manel” and once this gets onto Twitter this conference will be crucified.
There will be much apologizing, excuse making, back pedaling, explaining that ‘we tried but there’s no females who know anything about RabbitMQ’ and then finally the existing speakers, under public pressure, risk pulling out and then the conference risk being cancelled.
At a minimum, Microsoft will be targeted and the Microsoft speaker will pull out, followed by the others who care about the public perception.
Almost certainly Pivotal and Goldman Sachs will pull out too.
Let’s wait and see how much of this actually happens.
I think that any conference that in 2018 creates a panel consisting of all men is frankly, more stupid than can really be grasped.
It’s called a “Manel” and once this gets onto Twitter this conference will be crucified.
There will be much apologizing, excuse making, back pedaling, explaining that ‘we tried but there’s no females who know anything about RabbitMQ’ and then finally the existing speakers, under public pressure, risk pulling out and then the conference risk being cancelled.
At a minimum, Microsoft will be targeted and the Microsoft speaker will pull out, followed by the others who care about the public perception.
Almost certainly Pivotal and Goldman Sachs will pull out too.
Let’s wait and see how much of this actually happens.