NodeBots, Community, and Lights

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Personal account of NodeBots community growth plus concrete claims: community enforces a Code of Conduct, runs projects on GitHub and Gitter, and mixes hardware (Mindstorms, robots, a skirt with lights) with Node.js; core group reports roughly 50–52% gender representation; harassment incidents and even threats catalyze policy changes; claim: increased diversity produces measurably better code; outcome: living support network that repeatedly helps people stay in tech, not just technical demos.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 5:25The Nodebots Community
3. 6:36Code of Conduct
4. 10:29Advice

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