All Things Open 2021
2021-10-17..2021-10-19
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[All Things Open 2019, All Things Open 2020, All Things Open 2021, All Things Open 2022, All Things Open 2023, All Things Open 2024, All Things Open 2025]
who it's for
community managers, open source maintainers, diversity and inclusion leads, conference organizers, documentation writers, developer advocates, engineering managers
topics
CHAOSS DEI badging initiative; badging workflow on GitHub; acronym lookup and tooltips; inclusive language practices; moderation techniques for meetings; anonymous input tools and workflows; inner source adoption practices; reusable Terraform modules; welcome README and maintainer assignment; accessibility audits for events; nontraditional career transition paths; outreach to HBCUs and mentorship
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Open Source Badging Initiative for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion | Ruth Ikegah, Matt Cantu Snell | 11m |
Chaoss badging initiative claims a working, open system that moves DEI from awareness to measurable action for events it started September 2020 and now marks… | ||
| LGTM | Nigel Brown | 11m |
A clear claim: ambiguous acronyms and shorthand exclude people and create noise rather than clarity. Concrete examples include the LGTM PR comment misread as… | ||
| Let Me Introduce Y'all Y'all | Mason Egger | 13m |
Argues that using y'all as a gender‑neutral second‑person plural makes documentation and communities measurably more inclusive, cites origins from Scottish ye… | ||
| Let's Open Source Diversity & Inclusion | Demetris Cheatham | 21m |
A maintainer listening tour surfaces six concrete surprises: sponsored hackathons often create more work than help and leave contributors feeling ignored… | ||
| Building Inclusion Through Effective Moderation | Deedee Lavinder | 27m |
Clear claim: effective moderation carries the meeting outcome, reduces wasted hours and preserves belonging; poorly run meetings silence valuable contributors… | ||
| Adopting Open Source Practices To Build More Inclusive Products and Services | David Grizzanti | 15m |
Claims that adopting inner source increases documentation quality, code reuse and cross-team collaboration; evidence includes a company-wide single git server… | ||
| Careers in Tech- Calling All Majors! (Humanities to Technical, There's a Place for You) | Clarence Clayton, Koren Townsend | 18m |
Claims that majors do not limit careers get illustrated with concrete career paths and hires: math → QA → project manager, accounting → accounting information… | ||
| Introduction | Rikki Endsley | 04m |
A short welcome that stakes a concrete claim: the strongest value comes from the hallway track where real relationships form, not just sessions; a practical… | ||
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