Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf - DZone Agile

Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf - DZone Agile

Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf One of the organizers of LambdaConf makes an open and transparent statement on the recent controversy around a speaker. by Like (2) Comment (0) The Agile Zone is brought to you in partnership with DZone Software . Build your own privately managed community , like Stack Overflow, for your team with AnswerHub, a DZone Software product.  Last year, StrangeLoop rescinded an invitation to a speaker because of the controversy that erupted (nay, exploded) when his talk was announced. The controversy had nothing to do with the talk, which by all accounts was a great fit for the eclectic topics served up every year by the conference. Rather, the controversy surrounded the speaker's political views, which were penned under a pseudonym years prior. I learned about all this quite recently, and for a very unexpected reason: the same speaker submitted a talk to LambdaConf. The gender- and person-anonymized talk was endorsed by the review committee,

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