Another funny thing and I'm glad that you mentioned, is that "Woman Who Go" and other known "non-google" initiatives, as you said, were founded or co-founded by "developer advocate" Ashley McNamara. I don't know what kind of contract or collaboration, or relations she had with Google or Google employees, but she was quite "official" I would say, on all these conferences. Now, she works for Microsoft. She also created and promoted own printshop with Go-related merch with help of official Go community channels: conferences, social networks, slack, etc. So, the interesting thing is that in the post in Go blog it was claimed that 100% of money from new "official" store will go to so-called non-profit org "GoBridge": https://github.com/gobridge/about-us which is also seems to be founded or co-founded by her, along with other existing Google and (perhaps some of the) ex-Google employees: https://github.com/gobridge/about-us#leadership-team Ashley McNamara name there on the first place.
You can Google a lot with her name and "GoBridge", "Woman Who Go" and other keywords. For example here is her Patreon where she collects donations for Go-related artworks, and also mentions that "Woman Who Go" and "GoBridge" are being merged: https://www.patreon.com/posts/women-who-go-24864094 So all money will still go to that same project but now with promotion made on very top level, in official Go Programming Language blog. Even if that org is true and registered "non-profit" org, I suspect it still pays salaries and give contracts to sub-contractors. I tried to find any financial reports and proofs or evidence of real actions taken, but all I found is some very general stuff. At least it very suspicious. I don't believe that Google can't fund such a non-profit initiative without affecting true artists. And apparently, very unlikely, that you paid a cent to any independent artist over that years. On Friday, July 19, 2019 at 6:13:26 AM UTC+3, andrey mirtchovski wrote: > really? throughout the years (and I've been here since the beginning) > i have spent infinitely more on non-google "go" merch than on google > go merch: stickers, t-shirts, campaigns supporting women who code, > etc, etc. > > come on. get off your high horse. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/39fb6e76-6acb-4470-b249-bcb202580d45%40googlegroups.com.
