[hartror]

    No reason to try to get your ratio up artificially.

Why shouldn't they?

If they do this they may attract more girls (ladies, women?) to Angular which will improve the Angular ecosystem overall. Perhaps there are a number of women who have been tempted to go but aren't that committed to Angular and this might tip them over the edge.

I don't think we can acknowledge that there is a problem attracting women to our industry and not provide these sorts of concessions and special treatment, at least in the short to medium term. In the long term the industry culture and perceptions should be such that this isn't needed but that isn't where we are yet.

[LadyMartel]

It's not that I necessarily disagree with the goal of attracting more female attendees, but as a girl (and maybe I'm just speaking for myself,) I don't feel like I would be "tipped over the edge" by a demeaning pink "Girl ticket."

[hartror]

I missed the pink lanyard bit. That does tip it into demeaning territory. Like girls/ladies/women need to be highlighted any more at a tech conference.

[Dewie]

The intent is so that men can't use the tickets. Sure, they could have used a different colour, but they needed to differentiate those tickets.

[seszett]

Because using a photo and name would have been too simple and trivial?

No need to talk about the max three people with epicene names and faces who maybe could have abused this, they don't matter.

[Dewie]

> Because using a photo and name would have been too simple and trivial?

Using a generic ticket for every woman is more simple than assigning a name to each ticket... so no.