My Personal Journey Around Diversity
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Argues that diversity must be justified as business value not just social good, backing that with concrete moves: growth of the Jenkins plugin ecosystem by reaching untapped developer communities, governance changes that bring nondeveloper roles into projects, and accessibility wins like captioning and the curb-cutting effect that benefit many. Claims underrepresented groups are often underestimated people who yield higher‑quality contributors when actively recruited, and shows these interventions actually scale and work.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:40About Kohsuke
- 2:12Jenkins
- 2:59Tracy Miranda
- 4:07Diversity is not enough
- 5:20Soulsearching
- 6:07Allen Hamilton
- 9:19Curb Cutting Effects
- 11:21Math
- 11:37Community
- 12:15Reaching Out
- 13:11The Japanese Community
- 14:20The Chinese Community
- 15:15Passado
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