Yahoo x Lapdancers

October 21st, 2009

As it s open, inclusive hack day event Yahoo hired lapdancers to entertain.

Yesss,  it s a kind of thing you do just accidentally, hiring sex workers to come to your everyone’s invited, inclusive Hack Day event.  Two years in a row.  Two years in a row?  And the world did’nt notice this?  This is crazy…

Here “the sorry letter”:

I wanted to acknowledge the public reaction generated by the images of female dancers at our Taiwan Open Hack Day this past weekend. Our hack events are designed to give developers an opportunity to learn about our APIs and technologies. As many folks have rightly pointed out, the “Hack Girls” aspect of our Taiwan Hack Day is not reflective of that spirit or purpose. And it’s certainly not the message we want to send about our values here at Yahoo!. Hack Days are about making everyone feel welcome, including women coders and technologists.
This incident is regrettable and we apologize to anyone that we have offended. Rest assured, it won’t happen again.

Best,

Chris Yeh
Head of YDN

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