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I'm stunned that RubyFringe is on this list. The writeup you linked to is brutally one-sided: the partner track ("girlfriend daycare") was conceived of, named and run by women working in the larger context of supporting a conference run by a woman who happens to be the managing partner of the original Rails dev shop.
The men who had a blast as partner track participants would agree that this controversy was the ultimate tempest in a teapot.
The name change happened because there was a conference to be run and there was no battle to be fought and won.
Luckily it didn't seem to matter as none of the DevChix folks had any intention of coming in the first place. A good time was had regardless:
http://www.rubyinside.com/rubyfringe-success-and-roundup-956...
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> Also BritRuby was cancelled because the speaker list consisted entirely of white males, which is somehow a bad thing.
The dismissive tone is unnecessary, the matter was more complex than it seems. See here for a previous discussion.
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>Also BritRuby was cancelled because the speaker list consisted entirely of white males, which is somehow a bad thing.
The fools! Where did they go without the token woman or black or asian person?
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Also BritRuby was cancelled because the speaker list consisted entirely of white males, which is somehow a bad thing. [3]
[1] http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/CouchDB_talk
[2] http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/RubyFringe_offers_girlfri...
[3] http://venturebeat.com/2012/11/18/britruby-conference-felled...