The Compton's Cafeteria riots in SF and the Bathhouse riots here in Toronto are also worth reading up on.
Nothing is officially announced yet, so we'll see. So far, my favorite proposal is using the occasion to push for some improvements to our internal HR software/web portal, which is still using binary gender.
@Almo True, but it's still reasonable to see if they have some sort of Q&A add-on. Being on a lot of platforms is a pain and having one less is worth putting some effort into. Plus having a list of questions and answers is not that complicated. In the corporate setting you don't even need voting.
I feel like if you have a team of people who really know what they're doing setting it up and maintaining the backlogs/dashboards, it can be pretty awesome. But it's just so flexible, it's easy to just become a crufty fustercluck of mismatched workflows and broken plugins without that.
And also slow.
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I found that it was exactly collaboration that was terrible with JIRA, like all the Scrum sessions were filled with "i made the change hit refresh guys"
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I found some customer support thread that claimed that it was literally impossible with web tech
@DMGregory Yeah, I don't know why I'm here actually. I don't have a gamedev account and I'm not making games or engines anymore. I guess this is just the perfect amount of interesting distraction without eating up all my time.
One theory I've seen is that In the 70s-80s, the emerging home computer product lines started being marketed primarily as "boy's toys", creating experience gaps for young students and building baseless gender stereotypes that we're still struggling to dismantle today.
@OKprogrammer Exactly. Prior to that, women were leaders in many computer-related fields. See Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, Radia Perlman, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson...
As nwp says, there's also major cultural problems with misogyny in tech, and particularly so in games.
Not sure if you were following the news last year about sexual harassment at Ubisoft? There's a lot of (very overdue) work being done here and at other companies to reverse this toxic trend.
Hmmm... maybe my griping about responsibility turned folks off. 😅 I'm sure the load will be lighter with more hands on deck.
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I'm reaaally on the edge about joining the election, part of me thinks it's "now or never" as these don't happen that often, a part of me is terrified about the potential added responsibility, and I also really really think Almo deserves a spot
@DMGregory That's a very difficult problem. Some harassment is done in a so subtle way that even if it is known, it can be hard to document enough to fire the person doing it.
@Vaillancourt Yeah. We're doing more training on recognizing implicit bias and behaviours that create a poisoned work environment for that reason, so that less of this stuff passes unaddressed.
Is there a term for the meta concept of "user asks how to do X" & giving a reply of "you don't cuz it doesn't work that way"? Something like XY problem, but not quite?