Open Source & Feelings 2016
2016-07-22..2016-07-23
Seattle, United States
[Open Source & Feelings 2015, Open Source & Feelings 2016]
who it's for
community managers, open source contributors, diversity and inclusion leads, software engineers, engineering managers, computer science educators
topics
inclusive team practices; gender fields on web forms; workplace perks and wellbeing; burnout and work culture; blameless retrospectives for failures; empathy at scale; identity and belonging; experiences of minority engineers; ethics of open source in IoT; humanities in computer science education; non-code contributions to projects; technology outreach in prisons
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Work is Not a Dare: Tips for Building Inclusive Teams | Shawn Rider | 37m |
Workplaces become a sequence of implied dares that silence questions and encourage solo heroism; the presentation argues that psychological safety — measured… | ||
| Web Forms: When Someone's Gender is Your Business | Jennifer Tu | 21m |
A concrete fix: change label to sex instead of gender, add a prominent hover help explaining insurance sex and a freeform “more gender information” field… | ||
| Standing Desks and Free Pizza: Body Image Negotiations in Tech Spaces | Christine Bryant-Ryback | 21m |
Argues that office perks reshape bodies into signals of value, ties free pizza and treadmill desks to normalized pressure, and traces nutrition science back to… | ||
| Burnout and the Cult of Busy | Caroline Moore | 32m |
Video gives concrete research and personal results rather than pep talk it cites a 49 hour average workweek and that 25 percent of salaried workers exceed 60… | ||
| Unpopular Tech and Why It Was AMAZING | Rebecca Turner | 41m |
Claim: MySQL 3 had no transactions but is designed for high‑volume inserts and shows HTTP‑speed connection times that make CGI/PHP hosting practical, so it… | ||
| How To Be Everything: A Look At The Way We Give Advice | Lauren Scott | 30m |
A brief survey of 232 respondents (146 women, 72 men, 6 non‑binary, 22 people of color, 38 LGBTQA) claims disadvantaged people hear both own your ignorance and… | ||
| Expanding your empathy | Kronda Adair | 41m |
Argues that empathy — not pity — is the missing competency and backs it with specifics: Isabel Wilkerson spends 15 years interviewing 1,200 people and follows… | ||
| Complex System Failures and Blameless Retrospectives | Courtney Eckhardt | 22m |
Case study of a 1990 Seattle floating bridge failure where investigators find five contributing factors (uneven pumping, added wastewater in pontoons, rain and… | ||
| Venn and the Art of Identity | Nat Tarnoff | 34m |
Personal account claims identity is an intersection of roles, history, and survival and uses a Venn diagram metaphor plus art, therapy, parenting, and… | ||
| BlackGirlMagic: Being the only brown engineer | Lyn Muldrow | 11m |
Claims that diversity numbers at tech companies are abysmal and that black women routinely face exclusion, microaggressions, and the pressure to be twice as… | ||
| The Ethics and Responsibilities of Open Source in the IoT | Emily Gorcenski | 39m |
The talk gives concrete incidents: a photoplethysmography sensor reads 119 bpm from raw chicken and the result is reproducible across devices; wearable logs… | ||
| Now We're Cooking With STEAM: Humanities in Computer Science Education | Amy Wibowo | 11m |
Code.org raises $10 million while ~80% of schools face arts budget cuts and access for Black and Latinx students falls from ~50% to ~26%. Uses Bubblesort Zines… | ||
| Digital Engagement, Community, & Imagination | Natasha Marin | 37m |
Launches a Facebook event and spins it into a live site reparations.me that matches offers and requests, documents that the first offers come from people of… | ||
| When the Worst Happens: Moving Forward After the Unexpected Death of a Core Organizer | Christie Koehler | 39m |
A core organizer dies by suicide ten weeks before the event and the team keeps the conference more or less on schedule, uses existing event processes to co-run… | ||
| Empathy at Scale | Forrest L Norvell | 38m |
Three paid maintainers run the npm CLI while downloads grow exponentially to billions a month and roughly 200 million downloads per employee, leaving the team… | ||
| Why I'm Bringing Robots to Prison | Lindsey Wilson | 19m |
Claims that US incarceration totals 2.3 million people and about 1 in 2 released returns to prison, with ~650,000 released annually and ~$34,000 per person per… | ||
| How To Contribute to a Project without Coding | Tammarrian Rogers | 24m |
Argues that noncoding work matters by setting an intention-first foundation and nurturing team connection before code exists, showing a practical… | ||
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