Keynote: Building Community & Supporting Others
summary
Community work focuses on concrete outcomes: a Bronx bootcamp turns a Trader Joe’s chef into a data scientist and ships a lyrics cleaner called Pi ghosts that actually works; an NGO fund awards up to $300,000/year and runs idea grants of 12 weeks $6,000 to seed projects; a UK agency Torchbox transfers 100% employee ownership to ~70 staff; a Nairobi WhatsApp group scales to 270 women in 12 universities teaching Python and security.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:50Bio
- 1:38Tactical Tech
- 2:03Community Run
- 3:40Code of Conduct
- 4:00Building Community
- 6:38Supporting Others
- 7:08Taj Mahal
- 8:15She Rose
- 10:26Jango
- 11:56The Knowledge House
- 14:10Pi Ghosts
- 18:17Open Technology Fund
- 20:01Torchbox
- 20:48Torchbox Employee Ownership Trust
- 25:08She Hacks
- 26:55Stay Focused
- 29:45Community
- 30:45Conclusion
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