Re: Where are the women?

If you want to get more women to a conference, a few things have been
successful on this side of the pond:

- Scholarships set aside for female attendees
- Specifically invite potential female speakers to talk, or at least
submit a talk
- Reach out to women-based tech groups, and make sure they know about
the conference
- Talk to females that are already attending, and see if they can share a room
- Encourage sponsors to sponsor costs for a female attendee.
- Have a code of conduct that is public, explicit, and enforced.

Even doing the scholarships for a few spots shows that your conference
shows that you're serious about women attending. I don't know, when
looking into a conference, whether your conference is going to be one
where I'm going to get cat-called or one where I'm going to feel
completely at home.

Katie Cunningham

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