I had breakfast with Mika Matsuzika today at the University of
Washington, following her tweet
https://twitter.com/epimika/status/505470835885240320
During this discussion, the following idea came up: allowing
sponsors to adopt a diversity programme, i.e. similar to our perks.
The way this /could/ happen is by setting aside e.g. 10 scholarships
(e.g. valued 2.500 € each) and letting companies provide them. We
could then use those scholarships to invite people who we think
would substantially increase diversity of the conference.
What do you think?
Personally, I am pretty sure that sponsors would be *very*
interested in this, given all the (calls for) transparency around
diversity we are seeing nowadays, especially around tech. So I think
we should even try to get this into the sponsorship brochure, now,
or in its next version…
And you?
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