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From: Ilaria <[email protected]>
To: Renee <[email protected]>
Cc: Lætitia Avrot <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Postgres Women talk at pgconfeu
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 15:33:47 +0200
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Just to clarify, a panel is something different from a talk, is it? Are we still having a pgwomen-focussed paper submission as a community?

I use PG for exploratory analysis, if you need anything, I’m available :)

Ilaria

> Am 20.06.2019 um 15:24 schrieb Renee <[email protected]>:
> 
> Yes. It should absolutely be a technical topic. There are plenty of places for men to go to hear what it’s like to be a woman in tech. We don’t need to spend the time of five or six women to keep telling them it’s hard and here’s one weird trick we use to make our days easier (argh, I give a D&I talk, I would never ask anyone to give a D&I talk, it’s really quite stressful and a lot of vulnerability) 
> 
> So now the questions are what technical topics do we want to be on a panel about? 
> 
> My work experience is with QA and for fun I’m building a selenium scraper to get some public data from New York City which I will then put into Postgres and clean and then hopefully combine with other data and then learn something. 
> 
>> On Jun 20, 2019, at 9:02 AM, Lætitia Avrot <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I like the idea and I like it more if it's a panel about a technical subject.
>> We've seen a lot of panels about diversity and gender in IT. I'd like to do a panel on a technical subject with women. We kind of did that last year in Paris meetup: https://twitter.com/l_avrot/status/954098531488366592
>> 
>> A guy came to the organizer, asking if this was "a diversity thing" and the organizer answered "No, it's a skill thing".
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Lætitia
>> 
>>> Le dim. 16 juin 2019 à 04:46, Renee Phillips <[email protected]> a écrit :
>>> I think it could be a great idea to do a panel! Four or five women on the panel and a woman moderator? 
>>> 
>>> Goodness knows we have seen enough all male panels. We could have it not even be noticeably a woman only panel by the title....
>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 9:17 AM Lætitia Avrot <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> During a brainstorming session about conf talk ideas with Ilaria, we had this idea: how about having a lot of people (majority of women, but some other genders too) on stage to show how diverse and numerous we are ?
>>>> 
>>>> Who would come ?
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> 
>>>> Lætitia
>>>> 
>>>>> Le ven. 17 mai 2019 à 07:51, Lætitia Avrot <[email protected]> a écrit :
>>>>> Hi all, 
>>>>> 
>>>>> What would you think about a talk in Milan about : what is postgres women,  why it matters and what everyone can do about it? 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Anyone interested to do it (with or without me)? 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers, 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Lætitia
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> Paper doesn’t grow on trees. Please print responsibly.
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Paper doesn’t grow on trees. Please print responsibly.


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