[Chat] LCA first timers guide

[Rashmica Gupta]

Cheers for the guide Simon.

I imagine that "Miniconfs can't be quite different" is probably supposed to
be "Miniconfs *can* be quite different?


Rashmica


On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 5:00 PM, Simon Lyall <simon at darkmere.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Jan 2017, Hannah Thompson wrote:
>
>> Handy to have a newbie guide, thanks for sharing :) although one comment
>> I'd
>> make would be to edit this sentence, from the Conference Wrap-Up section,
>> because it's a bit off-putting, at least for me. (Even if the thankyou
>> gifts
>> are gendered it probably doesn't need to be spelt out?)
>>
>> "The organisers will be thanked, a bunch of flowers will be given to the
>> females and alcohol to the males. The head organiser usually gets a gift
>> from the speakers."
>>
>
> I'll update this in a few minutes. I think the reason for the wording was
> because it seemed a little cliched and old fashioned to be splitting out
> gifts by gender like that.
>
> I'm pretty sure this hasn't happened for a few years and in fact I seem to
> recall that the presentation of gifts to the team during the conference
> close is discouraged these days.
>
>
>
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