[ripe-list] RIPE PC Election Candidates & Voting

2016-10-25 Thread Brian Nisbet
Colleagues, Voting is now available for the two open spaces on the RIPE Programme Committee. The candidate bios are here: https://ripe73.ripe.net/programme/ripe-pc/candidate-biographies/ and the voting page is here: https://ripe73.ripe.net/programme/ripe-pc/elections-form/ You will require

Re: [ripe-list] cull

2016-10-25 Thread Nigel Titley
On 25/10/2016 13:51, Randy Bush wrote: We live in a complicated world, with complicated rules. The same is no doubt true of midwifery, garbage collection and embroidery. We can only do our best. but the tl;dr is that we should not expect newer folk to always be playing at top level. Something

Re: [ripe-list] cull

2016-10-25 Thread Randy Bush
> We live in a complicated world, with complicated rules. The same is no > doubt true of midwifery, garbage collection and embroidery. We can > only do our best. yep. and i am no prize either. but the tl;dr is that we should not expect newer folk to always be playing at top level. randy

Re: [ripe-list] cull

2016-10-25 Thread Nigel Titley
Sent from my iPad On 25 Oct 2016, at 13:07, Randy Bush wrote: > < rant > > >> Ripe NCC wages a continuous war against this sort of thing. > > that's nice. but when it happens to me, were do i send the error? You could try the Contact us form on the website, for a start. It's two clicks. >

Re: [ripe-list] cull

2016-10-25 Thread Randy Bush
< rant > > Ripe NCC wages a continuous war against this sort of thing. that's nice. but when it happens to me, were do i send the error? > Unfortunately there seems to be an inexhaustible supply of idiots. ad homina. our culture has 492 non-obvious conventions; one of them being not to have y

Re: [ripe-list] Gender politics at RIPE

2016-10-25 Thread Brian Nisbet
Excellent parenting is vital, but it's far from the only real solution. When society as a whole is biased, it's easy to see how even people who were told they could do anything (and rightly believed that) could find their desires thwarted. On top of parenting *and* doing what we can to improv

Re: [ripe-list] Gender politics at RIPE

2016-10-25 Thread Benno Overeinder
Dear Malcom, Thank you for your input to the gender diversity discussion after the LT presentation of Shane. Sharing of ideas and concerns, and followup discussion are very welcome to define more clearly and precisely the goals we try to achieve. Having said this, we want to reply on one part of

Re: [ripe-list] cull

2016-10-25 Thread Carsten Schiefner
Nigel - On 25.10.2016 10:41, Nigel Titley wrote: > Ripe NCC wages a continuous war against this sort of thing. > Unfortunately there seems to be an inexhaustible supply of idiots. like in almost any other aspect of one's life as well, I believe... :-/ Nonetheless: keep waging this kind of war, t

[ripe-list] RIPE 73 - Monday Highlights

2016-10-25 Thread Martina De Mas
¡Hola! RIPE 73 kicked off in Madrid yesterday. At the end of the day there were 491 attendees checked in and 663 registered. Highlights included: - An analysis of IPv6 deployment survey results, carrier-grade NAT (using BitTorrent data) and gender metrics at RIPE Meetings - A look at the ac

Re: [ripe-list] cull

2016-10-25 Thread Nigel Titley
Ripe NCC wages a continuous war against this sort of thing. Unfortunately there seems to be an inexhaustible supply of idiots. Nigel

Re: [ripe-list] Gender politics at RIPE

2016-10-25 Thread Nigel Titley
But the only real solution to this is the one I have used personally. My children were encouraged to follow whatever career preferences they wished and the girls especially were encouraged not take shit from anyone. Nigel Sent from my iPad On 25 Oct 2016, at 00:30, Randy Bush wrote: >> I do