{"id":1416,"date":"2014-05-12T07:44:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T14:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2014-05-09T21:04:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T04:04:38","slug":"on-being-a-role-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/12\/on-being-a-role-model\/","title":{"rendered":"on being a role model"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alison Gianotto<\/a> wrote a great post<\/a> after she was invited to speak at a Linux conference, and assigned the topic of women in technology. \u00a0Since that’s not a topic that she’s interested in talking about, and she has lots of things that she would like to speak about at a Linux conference, she gave some other ideas. \u00a0They passed.<\/p>\n

The whole post is awesome. \u00a0These two paragraphs match my philosophy about speaking at tech conferences:<\/p>\n

My position is that the best way for me to be a role model for women (and men) in technology isn\u2019t to give talks about being a woman in technology, but to kick ass and take names at being a technologist, and to give great presentations on technology topics. This is my way of showing men and women in technology that women are as capable and badass as the bros.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same reason I always agree to speak at conferences even when I know I\u2019m a token. I frequently spend my own money to fly out to speak at conferences that can\u2019t afford to fly me out or cover my hotel, and I do this because it\u2019s important for men and women to get used to seeing women at the podium, demonstrating their skills as an authority in technology. If we can get a few more women on that stage, maybe we won\u2019t feel like such a rarity anymore, and the perceptions of us in technology will shift.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At MacIT 2014<\/a>, she gave a great talk about security. \u00a0She knows her stuff, and she knows how to talk about it in such a way that other people will get it too. \u00a0I’m so glad she was one of our speakers, and I’m glad that her talk was a topic that she’s an expert in and that she’s passionate about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alison Gianotto wrote a great post after she was invited to speak at a Linux conference, and assigned the topic of women in technology. \u00a0Since that’s not a topic that she’s interested in talking about, and she has lots of things that she would like to speak about at a Linux conference, she gave some … Continue reading on being a role model<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}