Category: oscon
07/16/12 09:54 - ID#56620
OSCON Sausage Fest
Wow nothing says how much opensource is driven by men than a conference for open source attended predominently by men. I wonder if this holds true for all computer technology. I kind of thought it was a myth because we have a bunch of women at my work. Maybe men are more likely to attend a conference? It would be interesting to see some stats. I suppose github could answer that.
The conference was pretty good today. I attended the git session taught by the guys from git. Unfortunately the whole first half was old hat but there was some new stuff. Those guys put on such a great talk.
The afternoon I was going to attend the erlang session but at lunch they had the tables divided up by "tribe" and I met another PHP guy who convinced me to go to see the "Integrating PHPunit with Jenkins" using ANT, etc session. The session was taught by the creator of phpunit himself. I took a lot out of that session that I think I can bring back to work in a useful way for all teams, not just PHP.
The most enlightening moment was when the speaker suggested using yum, the RPM package manager to do server deployment. Not sure why I hadn't thought of that before.
The lunch itself was quite delicious. Though I forgot to take a pic ;( Now I am bored. I am so bad at socializing and I was one of the more social at my table. For a few minutes no one said anything.
The conference was pretty good today. I attended the git session taught by the guys from git. Unfortunately the whole first half was old hat but there was some new stuff. Those guys put on such a great talk.
The afternoon I was going to attend the erlang session but at lunch they had the tables divided up by "tribe" and I met another PHP guy who convinced me to go to see the "Integrating PHPunit with Jenkins" using ANT, etc session. The session was taught by the creator of phpunit himself. I took a lot out of that session that I think I can bring back to work in a useful way for all teams, not just PHP.
The most enlightening moment was when the speaker suggested using yum, the RPM package manager to do server deployment. Not sure why I hadn't thought of that before.
The lunch itself was quite delicious. Though I forgot to take a pic ;( Now I am bored. I am so bad at socializing and I was one of the more social at my table. For a few minutes no one said anything.
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There is the Society side: Aka How people are brought up and gender roles and alll that: Computers are science and that is still thought of as a man thing.. Or if you are a chick and you are hot it isn't that you are really into it, it is that you are into geeks....
Now some science: Would say that men (again though society above and gender roles do play into this sum girls are given barbies not instructions on how to fix her car) minds are better with science and math and girls brains it is more history or social studies and reading.. So it would make sense that less women would be in computers...
But based on (e:Heidi)'s comment it sounds like the ones whom would be good at a conference like this want nothing to do with the boys who are there.. I wonder if there is also a kind of learn and play thing going on... and also for people with families a way to escape them... Mom say would miss the family or the boyfriend... The boyfriend "Oh no one to nag me about the trash" Ha...
In any event before I get tons of hate mail nice picture enjoy and learn and make contacts and network and all that kind of stuff.....
You seem to have confirmed this. ;-)