AlterConf Seattle 2015
who it's for
diversity and inclusion practitioners, engineering managers, people ops managers, open source contributors, product managers, community organizers, tech event organizers
topics
blind interview audition techniques; hiring funnel metrics; employee referral network strategies; good first issue signals; open source contribution workflow; performative indie game curation; own-occupation disability insurance; chronic illness workplace accommodations; establishing team core values; coalition-based diversity initiatives; online abuse mitigation tactics; visibility campaigns for engineers
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Managing While Black | Kevin Stewart | 20m |
Argues that the problem isn’t a vague “pipeline” but a networking problem, cites tech diversity at ~5% and Adobe 1% African-American, and proposes concrete… | ||
| So You Want to Contribute to Open Source: ... | Yvonne Lam | 24m |
Concrete signals and actions decide: look for check for "good first issue" tags and read issue and PR history to see response time and accepted contributions… | ||
| Invisible Arcade: video games as rock concerts | Samantha Kalman | 25m |
Invisible Arcade runs a recurring curated event where selected games are performed on-stage and kept playable at demo stations; five events grow attendance… | ||
| Resisting the Tidal Wave: Making Sure Chronic Disease... | Anna Zocher | 10m |
Claims that own-occupation disability insurance will replace most of a salary for years and often costs about $40 a month, cites a statistic that workers are… | ||
| How The Tech Industry Made Me A Social Justice Writer | Ijeoma Oluo | 20m |
A tech career, Trayvon Martin’s death, and use of internet publishing tools produce a concrete shift: leaving corporate work to reuse technical skills for race… | ||
| Establishing Your Core Values | Elaine Nelson | 20m |
Team retreats produce four named values—user-focused, data-driven, simplified, iterative—and those values become decision filters. The team runs A/B split… | ||
| Breaking Down Diversity in Tech, One Company At a Time | Donte Parks | 17m |
A company launches Spectrum year-long initiative and claims concrete progress: a coalition of 10–20 regulars runs monthly meetings that pair a brainstorm… | ||
| Updated Spoon Theory for the Tech Industry | Whitney Levis | 21m |
Spoon theory gets updated with concrete practices and workplace specifics: distinct physical mental emotional social sensory spoons, counting spoons as a… | ||
| Breaking Stereotypes & Giving Diversity Many Faces: . | Laura Jane Watkins | 18m |
Campaign asserts a simple claim: if you write software you are an engineer, so change perception by showing real faces. Viral metrics hit half‑million tweets… | ||
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