AlterConf Berlin 2017
2017-05-13
Berlin, Germany
who it's for
diversity and inclusion practitioners, engineering managers, recruiters and talent acquisition, accessibility specialists, community organizers and nonprofit leaders, open source maintainers, software contributors
topics
machine learning for job copy; hiring pipeline metrics; diversity resource groups with budgets; mobile money services (M-PESA); mobile health and education reporting systems; toxicity moderation tools (AutoMod, Perspective); privacy and metadata risks in messaging apps; two-factor authentication and data minimization; chosen name and LDAP identity issues; compartmentalised empathy CBT ritual; community bike training programs; open source onboarding and CONTRIBUTING.md
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Diversity and Inclusion Efforts in Hiring for Tech Talents | Katy Peichert | 20m |
Recruitment describes concrete changes not platitudes: use Textio and machine learning to flag biased job copy, track drop rates by stage and fix the… | ||
| How Accessibility in Mobile Devices has Changed Lives | Mwai Karimi | 14m |
GSMA data shows 557 million connections in 2015 (about 46% of Africa) rising toward 725 million and mobile contributes close to 6% of Africa’s GDP now and 7.6%… | ||
| Beware of the Trolls... | Lily Hoskin | 11m |
Specific practices decide: AutoMod holds risky Twitch messages for moderator approval instead of auto-posting; Perspective Project scores comments for toxicity… | ||
| I've got an app for that!... | Kristina Young | 15m |
Examples list concrete systems and outcomes: machine learning models trained on CERN datasets to predict particle collision results, radio telescopes stitched… | ||
| #BIKEYGEES - about empowering migrant women by bike trainings | Anne Seebach | 14m |
Community-run bike trainings teach riding, traffic rules and basic repairs, hand over a bike plus helmet, lock and ownership certificate, and train graduates… | ||
| Compartmentalised empathy... | Roisi Proven | 16m |
A CBT technique called compartmentalised empathy gets a name and a concrete ritual: physically handing feelings back with a box so grief stays with its owner… | ||
| The Hardest Problems in Computer Science | Anjana Vakil | 19m |
AlterConf Berlin 2017 material connects three programming pain points to inclusion: cache invalidation maps to dangerous assumptions about who belongs, naming… | ||
| Your identity will be automatically overwritten! | Barne Kleinen | 17m |
Chosen name is used personally long before legal change but three systems — the course planning, the e‑learning platform and the public university website —… | ||
| Making your voice heard: Open Source Needs You | Laura Gaetano | 19m |
Explains concrete first steps: use GitHub issues and CONTRIBUTING.md, look for labels like first-timers-only or help-wanted, join Slack/IRC for clarifications… | ||
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