[Web4lib] Code4lib 2008 Minority Scholarship

[Ross Singer]

Yes, Robert, somehow you've managed to see through our diabolical plan
to set up a gender diversity scholarship to "mack on chicks".

-Ross.

On Dec 18, 2007 11:52 AM, Robert L. Balliot
<rballiot at oceanstatelibrarian.com> wrote:
> Roy,
>
> Now you are making me imagine that Code4Lib is:
>
> One woman, free 'Happy Hour' at the Embassy Suites,
> and a nerd herd.
>
> That is not a pretty thing to envision right before
> Christmas. For Pete's sake, get a gender balance!
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Roy Tennant
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 11:15 AM
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Code4lib 2008 Minority Scholarship
>
> The gender ratio of Code4Lib is the exact opposite of what Robert Baillot
> imagines it to be. Therefore, encouragement to help us alleviate this
> imbalance is badly needed. As for Mike Taylor's comment that this is
> "patronizing", shouldn't the potential recipients of this offer decide? So
> far we have had no indication that it is perceived so. Is it "divisive"? I
> think not, but if someone were alienated by such an offer then perhaps we
> are better off without them.
>
> The future I want is the one that Jeremy Frumkin is working to create --
> library technical conferences such as Code4Lib that are welcoming and
> fostering of female participation. The very fact that we can have a
> technical conference overwhelmingly dominated by men in a profession
> dominated by women is disturbing to me, as I would like to think it is
> disturbing to others.
>
> Jeremy is one of the few to take real actions while others such as myself
> appear content with rhetoric. If you want to attack someone, I would make a
> much better target for your ill-aimed sniping.
> Roy
>
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