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by robspychala 3306 days ago
on face value you can't argue with your logic but if you want to play the long game and help create and contribute to an industry that includes people from all demographics than this is a very smart move.

and more people included in your sample, more chance of finding amazing A++ engineers that can help the industry, your dev platform, etc...
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naasking 3306 days ago
> help create and contribute to an industry that includes people from all demographics than this is a very smart move

I doubt it. Now people are just going to think it's a waste of time trying to submit to this conference, and so lower quality material will be presented, and those in attendance aren't going to be as impressed and may not return. It's frankly a great way to to ensure you only ever hold one conference.

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julianmarq 3306 days ago
> and more people included in your sample, more chance of finding amazing A++ engineers that can help the industry, your dev platform, etc...

Wasn't everyone included in the sample? Did they reject any paper based on how the sender looked like?

> on face value you can't argue with your logic but if you want to play the long game and help create and contribute to an industry that includes people from all demographics than this is a very smart move.

The way to play the long game in this is precisely accepting applications from anywhere, anything different is detrimental. So no, not a smart move.

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nathanasmith 3305 days ago
>and more people included in your sample, more chance of finding amazing A++ engineers that can help the industry, your dev platform, etc...

Well, whatever. Myself, I was just about to look into Electron having heard so much about it lately. But if this is how they run things, I think I'll just look elsewhere to satisfy my cross-platform development curiosities.

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