Since we didn't get very many women, enbies, or people of color to submit talks, the folks choosing talks for the Decentralisation & Internet Privacy track at FOSSDEM 19 decided that we'd like to ask of you:
If you submitted a talk, go ask an underrepresented minority friend/acquaintance of yours if they'd like to give the talk with you/in your stead.
CC @fosdem, can we get a little boost 💜?
@egrasmed How about you hire actors to give all the talks? Or maybe use a suitably diverse text-to-speech program instead of the submissions' actual authors?
Also, I think the concept of "their own original work" is fallacious. We work *with others*, and *on the work of others*.
Real stories of success are not stories of a single person's efforts, but of a whole network of efforts.
This assumption is baked into what I looked for while selecting conference talks.
@dave @egrasmed I hope there's a difference between proposing a talk and actually performing it.
I hope that free software projects are more than one person.
I hope that we can, as a community, address the question of diversity without looking like we're penalizing the dominant population.
I hope that software freedom is as well about collective freedoms, and addressing the lack of representation of minorized communities is going to help our community strengthen and grow.