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This is weird. Czech Republic (Czechia) is not in the list of eligible countries but every other of our neighbours is O.o. Including Slovakia and Austria which both are even smaller countries than Czechia by number of Residents. I wonder why this is.

Edit: Judging by the comment of required business email and gmail for example being blocked, I consider this hackathon somehow with their rules arbitrary and can't consider this to be some kind of fairly judged hackathon for those prices.

It might be a law related thing regarding prizes? iirc its also why it says "Canada (excluding Quebec)"

How proficient do you have to be in Redis to have fun in such a hackathon? I use Redis mostly in combination with Python Celery.

That mostly depends on your definition of "fun."

Assuming by "fun," you actually mean "competitive," then it depends on who else enters, I suppose, but the more proficient you are, the better.

They require you to use a business email address in order to enter the hackathon (gmail is blocked).

their filtering is not very good, hey.com emails work fine.

Why Italy is not on the list? Also this part "Canadian residents must correctly answer a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question, if selected as winner, in order to claim prize" what's up with canadians and math?

Laws in Canada require all sweepstakes and the like to have a challenge aspect and a no purchase necessary aspect to separate them from gambling which is quite regulated.

For example, when McDonald's is doing the Monopoly peel offs you can mail them and ask for some free peel offs, which they send you from a limited supply.

Interesting video on Canadians having to do math to win prices: https://youtu.be/jOmnx-V1zBo

Canadian here, can confirm. Every time I've ever won any prize of any kind in an official way, we have to do stupid basic algebra problems. Very odd.

I used Redis for a past project, Control My Lights. It's pretty cool, very fast. Going to check this out more.

Aka lead generation campaign for their b2b sales team

Anybody looking for a team member?

We're gonna have six out of six men on a judging panel in 2021? Grim.

[Edited for downvoters: this is important because of natural biases in human judging, it serves as an automatic warning to women and other genders that they are unlikely to be treated fairly and suggests to them that they shouldn't bother to participate.

If you can't be bothered to find a single woman judge, how are you going to rate projects created and designed by or for women?]

As another reference, when I look at github contributions, I can't remember seeing 1 female.

Perhaps there is an overrepresentation of males, because there are more males that contribute/work in IT?

Eg. First page of people in .net contains 1 female and 19 males: https://github.com/orgs/dotnet/people

The exact question I was going to ask.

And I was waiting till downvotes. But even the github opensource survey mentions only 1/20 are female ( which is perfectly aligned with my example)

Too bad some people don't accept facts anymore. They should fix the root causes, eg. make coding for women more popular.

If you're a man reading this, one of the tools you have at your disposal is to pledge not to be a part of a panel comprised of only men. It can help to prompt organisers to assess their biases. Here's one example of such a pledge you could take (either privately, or publicly):

https://www.owen.org/pledge/

I assume the judges will look at the product without looking at the author profile, why would it matter ?

devil's advocate

what if their design is more girlish in style and men wouldnt get it?

>If you can't be bothered to find a single woman judge, how are you going to rate projects created and designed by women?]

That is some pretty non-transitional thinking!

Why in the world would a man not be able to just a Redis project developed by a woman?

[edited because of your edit: I stand by the above statement even in the face of your very weak argument]

Let me ask you a question. If that panel had been all women, would you be on here talking about how a woman would not be able to judge a Redis project developed by a man?

If you genuinely believe this: that it makes no difference, why would you choose to have an all-men judging panel?

Because 19 of the top 20 contributors to redis are men?

>why would you choose to have an all-men judging panel?

e.g maybe they were the only competent/(interested in taking a part in this project) people avaliable

>If you genuinely believe this: that it makes no difference, why would you choose to have an all-men judging panel?

I didn't choose. Perhaps the people that did, didn't have a lot of, or maybe any, women to choose from? Or perhaps, and I know this is going to piss off a lot of people, but perhaps the best judges they could find just happened to be men?

In any case, my mind, unlike yours apparently, did not immediately jump to malice or the soft bigotry of them "just not knowing" they fucked up due to innate misogyny.

How many men and women work at Redis Labs? Do you know their qualifications? ratio? Expertise matters a lot when it comes to judging some other person's product.

I am pretty sure, if you were selected, no matter how good other products will be, you chose female build product. Is this fair?

That's unfortunate. But it's worth to note that Redis is one of the few projects to have a woman in the development core team (1 out of 5 total core team contributors: would be great to see more than that, but is already a rarity, unfortunately).

thank you for your work, man. redis is awesome

I wonder if side effect of such comments/posts are the actual reason we can't fix diversity/racism issues.

Why person in his/her right mind should look at person's sex/race/religion when judging product?

P.S. I am not against diversity, everyone should have equal opportunity, but people should not be forced to be engineers. This kind of messages are freaking me out recently

It's definitely the fault of my comment that nobody bothered to ask a women to be part of a panel judging products. I totally see how that's possible. (sarcasm)

Have you asked yourself why 90% of nurses are women in Norway with best gender equality programs? Why they are not forcing every other male to become nurse?

Female and male are different in some aspects of their biology, no matter what you say, they are different anyway. This difference tends to affect people choice. And 90% woman in Norway choose to be nurse.

We should strive to have an equal opportunity for everyone (race/gender doesn't matter, just equal opportunity), not push people to become what they don't want

Why die woman not invent redis themselfes? They could be in Charge of such Personal decisions then

> unlikely to be treated fairly

Discussions about biases that purely stem from modern synthetic biases merely created by social movements for the sake of recognition are an interesting topic. Bias-ception maybe?

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