Re: Postgres Women talk at pgconfeu

I would add a question about first language (because the assumption of
English as default is understandable but there may be some bias in events
as a result)

On Jun 10, 2019, at 10:07 AM, Valeria Kaplan <vk(at)dataegret(dot)com> wrote:

Hi Lætitia and Ilaria / All,

Sounds like a great idea.
I think maybe it would be even more impactful to do an online survey to see
how *actually* diverse we are in numbers?

You might have planned this anyway, but here just an idea. You could do a
few pools through the Postgres Women Twitter handle for example to ask the
community questions:
1. which sex you relate to? (you'll need to think about how to phrase it
correctly);
2. where where you born?;
3. where do you live?
4. would you consider yourself having a disability?
...and other diversity questions)
and then visualise it in your presentation alongside statistics about IT
community as a whole (or whatever stats on IT community you will be able to
find.
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/5-eye-opening-statistics-about-minorities-in-tech/
might
be useful as a starting point.) I think this will help to see whether
PostgreSQL community is reflective of a broader IT groups etc.
Of course, it would only be a sample and not everyone is on Twitter etc.
However, that will be a relatively painless way to get good number of
responses and get an idea what we are dealing with. 8)

Would be glad to hear what you think.
I'll be in Milano btw.

Valeria

*Valeria Kaplan*Marketing Director

*Data Egret*

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 2:17 PM Lætitia Avrot <laetitia(dot)avrot(at)gmail(dot)com>
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 <laetitia(dot)avrot(at)gmail(dot)com> 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
>>
>>
>
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