AlterConf Portland 2017
2017-11-04
Portland, United States
[AlterConf Portland 2015, AlterConf Portland 2016, AlterConf Portland 2017]
who it's for
diversity and inclusion leaders, engineering managers, hr partners, product designers, software engineers, community managers, ux researchers
topics
company diversity program metrics; pronoun and trans inclusion; Han unification in Unicode; emoji skin tone issues; privacy harms from identity data; hiring name-bias experiments; inclusive form and validation design; responsible communication style guide; emotional labor and care practices; workplace harassment mitigation tactics; open source maintainer career paths; measuring and fixing survey wording
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Challenges of Company Diversity Programs:... | Kara Sowles | 22m |
Company-level tactics and failures: a tech workplace grew from 75 to 550 employees so scale matters, HR reports target 11% women in leadership and stops there… | ||
| Decolonizing Unicode: Can We ...? | Aditya Mukerjee | 25m |
Unicode assigns unique code points since 1987 but decisions like Han Unification collapse language‑specific glyph variants so copied text loses distinct forms… | ||
| The Social Responsibility of Coding | Liz Abinante | 24m |
Concrete examples, numbers, and outcomes appear: MaxMind IP mapping and the farm that suffers 15 years of harassment, 14% of US addresses tied to one driveway… | ||
| Privacy & Anonymity may be ruining your Diversity and... | Miki Demeter | 15m |
Claims that diversity programs improve outcomes collide with design choices that erase privacy: benefits get advertised externally but internal guidance is… | ||
| Transcoding self worth into elegant software | Kris Nova | 17m |
A narrative links a painful gender transition to growing self‑worth and measurable engineering outcomes: becoming a Kubernetes maintainer, coauthoring Cloud… | ||
| Not All Alike: East Asian and Transmasculine... | Moof Mayeda, Aiden Yang | 17m |
Two engineers recount concrete incidents: a repeated mistaken identity microaggression that leads to an HR meeting, sustained harassment at Intel including a… | ||
| Surviving on the fringe of the tech industry | Dawn Parzych | 13m |
Argues that many noncoding roles are genuinely technical and gives concrete examples: a blog called 18 women in tech prompts an HR email demanding more… | ||
| Eliminating Unconscious Biases in Technology Through... | Marcus Finley | 24m |
Shows concrete fixes and measured effects: an Airbnb test finds 16% higher rejection for African-American–sounding names, so adding fuller profiles and a… | ||
| Styling for Inclusion: How Shaping a Style Guide ... | Thursday Bram | 16m |
A practical account of making and funding a style guide: a Kickstarter-financed The Responsible Communication Style Guide raises money hours before the… | ||
| When to Stop Teaching Others and Start Caring for Ourselves | Haile Canton | 25m |
Claim: the burden of educating others falls on marginalized people and that emotional labor must be managed with concrete practices. Offers specific tools… | ||
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