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1. Kirsten (kik1@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Feb-2023 06:26:39 JST Kirsten

   • FOSDEM

   Am I the only one who finds it highly problematic that the year is 2023 - but all keynote speakers at #fosdem @fosdem are male?
   https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/track/keynotes/

   • Abandoned (doctormo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 06-Feb-2023 06:26:30 JST Abandoned

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     • FOSDEM
     • Pol Dellaiera

     @Pol @kik1 @fosdem

     Nope.

     It's a community's responsibility to be safe and inviting to a breadth of speakers. An all male panel might be inevitable (i dont think it is) but it's still a social failure which we must reflect bitterly on until we figure out what correctives are required to reverse hyper narrow representation.

     Your post lacked any lamentation, suggesting you don't see this as a failure.

   • Pol Dellaiera (pol@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Monday, 06-Feb-2023 06:26:37 JST Pol Dellaiera

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     • FOSDEM

     @kik1 @fosdem Do you really think that in 2023, Fosdem organizers are only choosing male candidates for keynotes? If there are no women, it's perhaps that none of them submitted a talk proposal!

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.