Please Add Female Developers on Live Streams

[Hydrino]

FD are intent on doing a bunch of livestreams, which I don't have time to watch and think they should instead do GalNet news more like Obsidian Ant but with more tools and graphics in-game style.

But since FD are intent on this:

Please add female devs to your streams.

Males dominate IT right now. We know FD have many female employees. Surely a few of them work on ED and would be willing to be on a livestream?

I do realize that the devs are putting themselves "out there" to the public when they do this, and some men are idiots.

But I have a daughter and I am in IT and love science and technology. If FD are going all in on the streams, in addition to Bo, then they need to showcase some female devs as well. Step up FD, let's see that the girls like the games and coding and do some role-modelling for our daughters.

Mistress of the Minions, anyone?

Please comment to keep this at the top of suggestions!

 

[Asp Explorer]

I think it's a worthy idea - but unless those devs are actually subject matter experts - there's a risk it could be seen as something else and completely backfire.

And I'm absolutely not saying those devs are not actually subject matter experts.

 

[Marc_Hicks]

FD are intent on doing a bunch of livestreams, which I don't have time to watch and think they should instead do GalNet news more like Obsidian Ant but with more tools and graphics in-game style.

But since FD are intent on this:

Please add female devs to your streams.

Males dominate IT right now. We know FD have many female employees. Surely a few of them work on ED and would be willing to be on a livestream?

I do realize that the devs are putting themselves "out there" to the public when they do this, and some men are idiots.

But I have a daughter and I am in IT and love science and technology. If FD are going all in on the streams, in addition to Bo, then they need to showcase some female devs as well. Step up FD, let's see that the girls like the games and coding and do some role-modelling for our daughters.

Mistress of the Minions, anyone?

Please comment to keep this at the top of suggestions!

I don't mind the Livestreams-& concur that they should bring more of their female Devs onto them (oddly enough, their weekly Twitch Stream has had a female developer on at least a couple of times)-but I would definitely be more for having a really fleshed out Galnet.

 

[Hydrino]

I think it's a worthy idea - but unless those devs are actually subject matter experts - there's a risk it could be seen as something else and completely backfire.

And I'm absolutely not saying those devs are not actually subject matter experts.

Of course. Sarah Jane Avory comes to mind as one of the NPC/AI crew.
Or Jo Taylor who was featured in the pre-release videos about the future of ED.
I don't expect they would have the freshman intern showing up.

 

[Iskariot]

Please Add Female Developers on Live Streams

I would love to see a talk with Sarah Jane Avory about the AI.

 

[mp4x]

Anyone with a lead roll, in charge of a team, area, department or whatever. The gender of that person is irrelevant to me, I just want to people there to be able to answer questions and talk about the game with actual information.