AlterConf Washington D.C. 2016
2016-01-30
Washington, D.C., United States
who it's for
diversity and inclusion leaders, community managers, human resources and legal teams, engineering managers, educators and outreach coordinators, game and health-tech developers, platform and chatops engineers, product managers
topics
inclusive parental leave policy wording; trans-inclusive identity data collection; moderation bots for Slack and Twitter; ci commit checks for harmful language; pipeline programs and paid internships; therapy game design and hardware; online gendered harassment and doxxing; OkCupid-style gender options design; TechHire and employer-aligned training grants; escalation and documentation for workplace harassment
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Tech and the Queer Family | Rachel Shorey | 23m |
Tech industry parental leave policies often assume cis married bio birth mother as primary caregiver and break for adoptive, trans, queer, foster, or immigrant… | ||
| Creating diverse spaces of opportunity in the tech sector | Charlotte James | 16m |
Statistics show AP Computer Science exists in 5% of high schools, computer science majors decline and graduates are ~14% women 3% African American 7% Hispanic… | ||
| 5 Simple Steps for Trans-Inclusive Data | Avory Faucette | 18m |
Five concrete steps for making people data less harmful and more useful including ask pronouns and contextualize name fields, balance data needs with privacy… | ||
| Using bots to Improve Humanity | Gem Barrett | 17m |
Shows concrete implementations and outcomes: simple Slackbot trigger-response pages and Node-based Botkit (npm install botkit) are used to auto-correct… | ||
| The Revolution Will Not Be Silenced | Lyn Muldrow | 10m |
A personal incident about a Family Guy giphy posted in a work Slack channel becomes the test: a private message asking the poster to remove the meme succeeds —… | ||
| Supply Side Diversity, or Why FUBU Had The Right Idea... | Harold Moore | 17m |
Runs a national $1million program that offers free beginner digital trainings across six city hubs and engages 1500 attendees, then gets appointed de facto… | ||
| Social and Design Factors in Video Games for Therapy and ... | Emily Gorcenski | 22m |
Three concrete therapy games are described: VOTA for occupational rehab with cooking and grocery tasks, a stroke-focused game that uses adoptable puppies to… | ||
| Education is the Key | Rob Jackson | 24m |
Argues that the social contract of education is broken and that computing, digital storage and bandwidth are redistributing educational functions to… | ||
| Is it Possible for a Safer, Saner, and Diverse Internet? | Shireen Mitchell | 24m |
Over 70% of women use social media, 40% show up in gaming, yet only ~30% work in tech, and representation for people of color falls under single digits; real… | ||
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