I fondly remember when I first discovered how to attach a goto action to a button and I went nuts with it making choose your own adventure type animations. Drawing was also really easy to make thing look decent even with a mouse. I haven't found (or admittedly looked for) a similar vector drawing tool like that ever since.

Yes, the generated brush strokes were really good. I was at one point just making static comics in Flash, using just a mouse because the brush strokes looked like they were drawn by someone way more skilled than myself.

Are there stats that there are more women who career change and come from bootcamps or don't have as rigid technical backgrounds? Are bootcamp graduates not technical enough or interested in technical subjects? These generalizations are unsettling to me.

There's a general flow of conversation in any social situation that organically arises from the composition of the group of people involved. Unless your friend's teammates are jerks, she should be able to easily influence the direction of the conversation. Perhaps instead of suffering from an issue because she is a woman, she is simply too shy. Maybe this industry or society at large is bad at including shy people general.

How would a manager even know where to direct the discussion if the person who feels alienated doesn't speak up during the conversation? The last thing I want is a manager to try to point the discussion to movies, pop music, fashion, makeup, or whatever else women are supposed to like. I would absolutely be offended.

What do you do for fun? I always just go to some meetups related to either my work or my hobbies. I think any sports (hiking, mountain climbing) or artistic endeavors (woodworking, photography) type of hobbies make it really easy to make friends.

I was thinking since months to start a yoga course but I fear that in those lessons the "let's socialize" part is not considered a lot in comparison to the physical activity

Sure there's time to socialize. Waiting for class to start, walking to and from class/etc. You won't know until you try. (And if it doesn't work out then you'll still have done some yoga.)

It made me think deeply about my decision to be a CS major and in the end I am grateful. It became one of my favorite classes at Cornell.

Do you know what kind of shitstorm would brew if he deleted the thread and banned him?

Oh my god, Kid Pix! I wasted countless hours doodling stick figures. Good times.

Hey, thank you for posting in this thread! I didn't realize one of the organizers would see this. I hope I didn't come off as overly harsh about you guys' good intensions. It looks like an awesome conference and I do hope to attend someday(if it happens again in the future).

I get that lots of groups use the term girl, though I think some of them actually deal with teaching girls (actual school aged ones) to code. In general I dislike being called "girl" in a professional setting. (But maybe I am in the minority for this opinion)

You bet, and thank you. Better to take feedback now than have regrets later. Would changing the name of the ticket to the name of one of the official groups (Women in Tech Ticket, or Girl Develop It Ticket) and did all same lanyards (no pink!), would that be enough in your opinion?

For me, it would be good enough.

Although, the idea in general doesn't sit too well with me since it's a little bit unfair for guys since they have less of a chance of getting in (and have to pay more).

But, I guess the priority ticketing system is an okay fix for possibly getting more women who are interested in angular to go to this conference. (If that is an important goal, which I guess it apparently is)

Cool, I think we'll start with that. Yeah, there's always the risk of "reverse discrimination" with any kind of effort like this. Will have to find the right balance. So far most of the early bird tickets (even more discounted) have gone to men just because of the current industry ratios, so I'm not too worried about them feeling bad.

I'm not speaking for some imaginary strawman-feminist. I would rather that the event organizers treat me like anyone else and assume that my attendance would be based upon my interest in the subject and not offer me some affirmative-action ticket that automatically separates me from everyone else.

But isn't that how tech conferences usually work? And doesn't that result in the kind of gender ratio problem about which there is much dismay?

Agreed, they did this in a clumsy way, but hey, they are trying something.

The problem is not gender parity at conferences, but gender parity in the industry. You see the inverse at conferences in fields dominated bg women, and there are no "boy tickets".

Maybe gender parity in a conference could help improve gender parity in industry?

It could make sense for boy tickets (perhaps with a better name) to exist in conferences in women-dominated fields, but it would be up to each conference to decide if gender parity is something they want and if they want to encourage it in this way.

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."

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.

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.

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.

> 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.

Wow! If this is as easy to use as shown in the video, then designing apps and prototyping them will be 10x more enjoyable. I can imagine this helping me be more creative as I am much faster drawing out my ideas in photoshop than storyboarding in xCode or writing html/css/js. (or using any of the other prototyping software I've used before...) Thanks for sharing!