I wouldn't say she was in a vulnerable position at all. Like Jon, she was already a conference speaker and a Scala group organiser. Really, she wasn't below Jon in any hierarchy.
In her blog post she makes out as if she was naive and fresh to the Scala ecosystem, as a non-native English speaker. I don't buy it at all, given this is her in 2018 giving a confident Scala talk in perfect English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq9YbTeOkjA
In her blog post she makes out as if she was naive and fresh to the Scala ecosystem, as a non-native English speaker. I don't buy it at all, given this is her in 2018 giving a confident Scala talk in perfect English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq9YbTeOkjA