LadyMartel

I fondly remember when I first discovered how to attach a goto action to a button and I went nuts with it making choose your own adventure type animations. Drawing was also really easy to make thing look decent even with a mouse. I haven't found (or admittedly looked for) a similar vector drawing tool like that ever since.

Are there stats that there are more women who career change and come from bootcamps or don't have as rigid technical backgrounds? Are bootcamp graduates not technical enough or interested in technical subjects? These generalizations are unsettling to me.

There's a general flow of conversation in any social situation that organically arises from the composition of the group of people involved. Unless your friend's teammates are jerks, she should be able to easily influence the direction of the conversation. Perhaps instead of suffering from an issue because she is a woman, she is simply too shy. Maybe this industry or society at large is bad at including shy people general.

How would a manager even know where to direct the discussion if the person who feels alienated doesn't speak up during the conversation? The last thing I want is a manager to try to point the discussion to movies, pop music, fashion, makeup, or whatever else women are supposed to like. I would absolutely be offended.

Sure there's time to socialize. Waiting for class to start, walking to and from class/etc. You won't know until you try. (And if it doesn't work out then you'll still have done some yoga.)

What do you do for fun? I always just go to some meetups related to either my work or my hobbies. I think any sports (hiking, mountain climbing) or artistic endeavors (woodworking, photography) type of hobbies make it really easy to make friends.

It made me think deeply about my decision to be a CS major and in the end I am grateful. It became one of my favorite classes at Cornell.

I don't see how it's different from calling out a former employer and spreading (what seems like) false information. Cruel and perhaps unprofessional, but not completely in the wrong imho.

Do you know what kind of shitstorm would brew if he deleted the thread and banned him?

Oh my god, Kid Pix! I wasted countless hours doodling stick figures. Good times.

For me, it would be good enough.

Although, the idea in general doesn't sit too well with me since it's a little bit unfair for guys since they have less of a chance of getting in (and have to pay more).

But, I guess the priority ticketing system is an okay fix for possibly getting more women who are interested in angular to go to this conference. (If that is an important goal, which I guess it apparently is)

Hey, thank you for posting in this thread! I didn't realize one of the organizers would see this. I hope I didn't come off as overly harsh about you guys' good intensions. It looks like an awesome conference and I do hope to attend someday(if it happens again in the future).

I get that lots of groups use the term girl, though I think some of them actually deal with teaching girls (actual school aged ones) to code. In general I dislike being called "girl" in a professional setting. (But maybe I am in the minority for this opinion)

I'm not speaking for some imaginary strawman-feminist. I would rather that the event organizers treat me like anyone else and assume that my attendance would be based upon my interest in the subject and not offer me some affirmative-action ticket that automatically separates me from everyone else.

It's not that I necessarily disagree with the goal of attracting more female attendees, but as a girl (and maybe I'm just speaking for myself,) I don't feel like I would be "tipped over the edge" by a demeaning pink "Girl ticket."